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Sramota

Shame is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999. It won the Booker Prize. The author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature four years after its publication.

Elizabeth Costello

Elizabeth tirelessly lectures and gives speeches all over the world. Although it is not entirely clear in this work where fiction ends and fiction begins, the character of Elizabeth is a metaphor for a writer who does not write but gives formal speeches.

The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir

Čiča Goriot / Eugenie Grandet

Honore de Balzac

Together, Uncle Goriot and Eugenie Grandet deliver Balzac's powerful portrayal of the power of money, family relationships, and social ambitions, revealing how greed, love, and sacrifice shape human destinies.

Finis Terrae: Ostavština

Schrott's Finis Terrae: Legacy novel is constructed as a found legacy: a blend of notes, travel, history, and fiction in search of the edges of the world, identity, and memory.

Agent in eigener Sache

Magnus Pym, a successful British intelligence officer and double agent, disappears after his father's funeral. In hiding, he writes a memoir about a life shaped by a deceitful father, lies, and betrayal. Le Carré's most autobiographical novel.