Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he's been hired to do. Not only has been hired to track down French classical author Celine - who's meant to be dead - but he's also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow - which...

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth...

Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Zizek argues, there can be no great social triumph--because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our ever eyes. What we must do now is wake up and...

We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When toilet paper becomes a commodity as precious as diamonds.

On Writing reveals an artist brutally frank about the drudgery of work and canny and uncompromising about the absurdities of life—and of art. It illuminates the hard-edged, complex humanity of a true American legend and counterculture icon—the “laureate of American lowlife” (Time)—who stoically recorded society’s downtrodden and depraved. It exposes an...

Ndër ta, emna të mirënjohun për letërsinë bashkëkohore shqiptare, me botime e publikime, prani letrare të dendun nëpër kanalet letrare të rrjeteve sociale, si dhe tjerë me shtytje të herëhershme për me shkruejtë në këtë zhanër. 

Elegancë që e shoqëron lexuesin faqe pas faqe, kapitull pas kapitulli, pavarësisht se aty tregohen ndodhi dramatike, ndjenja turbulluese, dilema tronditëse, ankthe marrorëse; por edhe situata absurde e groteske, shpeshherë shoqëruar nga nuanca komike, fryt i një konteksti sa paradoksal aq edhe i njëmendtë. 

Featuring tales about love, history, tragedy and comedy as well as fables and fairy tales, this edition remains a well-loved collection of exotic and evocative stories. Fantastical and curious customs are bought to life by Burton’s translation in stories such as ‘The Lovers of Bassorah’, ‘The Concubine of Al-Maamun’ and ‘The Hunchback’s Tale’.

His interpretation of the biblical story of Genesis is vivid and intense in its language, justifying the actions of God to men. In his sequel poem, Paradise Regained, Milton shows Satan trying to seduce Jesus in a similar way to Eve, but ultimately failing as Jesus remains steadfast.

 Through drink, Bukowski is able to be alone, to be with people, to be a poet, a lover, and a friend—though often at great cost. As Bukowski writes in a poem simply titled “Drinking,”: “for me/it was or/is/a manner of/dying/with boots on/and gun/smoking and a/symphony music background.”

Poezia, dashuria dhe çmenduria futen njëkohësisht në jetën e poetes Alda Merini, një stuhi që e përmbysi, në adoleshencë, deri kur ajo arrin të fitojë mbi të, me forcën e fjalës. Ndërkohë që tregon për vitet e kaluara në spitalin psikiatrik, ajo padit përvojën më të dhimbshme: urdhrin që i jep mjeku që të mos dashurohet.