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Through the characters that appear in these seven short stories, the Czech author talks about friendship, love and sex, and about the ways in which people escape from cruel reality.
Jaromil, a young poet raised by a possessive mother, seeks a "real life" in poetry and revolution. His lyrical youth, love, and idealism lead him into conformity and betrayal of intimate relationships – he dies young and unfulfilled.
This is a biography about my father made up of memories and mere imagination. History does not exist, and neither do facts. The past is unknown.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer is a prolific writer of novellas and short stories. And in this collection of short stories, the author's penchant for mysticism, grotesque, folklore and eroticism is expressed.
Do you like "lovelies"? Whatever you think about them, you'll enjoy this superb pastiche of trivial romance novels.
The novel represents a journey into an alternative world – a world that we all belong to from time to time, but of which we would not want to be a part, a world of paranoia and alienation that we are not entirely sure is just an alternative or the bare tr