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by Georges Bataille Translated by Joachim Neugroschel Original title: Histoire de l’oeil
This book was first published in 1928, but its subsequent history — a number of somewhat amended versions have appeared — and the critical acclaim which it has received demand a review. The American critic Susan Sontag described the work as ‘terrifying’, (more...)
by Elfriede Jelinek Translated by Joachim Neugroschel Original title: Die Klavierspielerin
At the centre of this novel is the destructive and pathological relationship between a mother and her daughter. Erika has been moulded by her mother from earliest youth to be a famous concert pianist. Failing to satisfy this ambition she now works as a piano teacher in Vienna. (more...)
by Tommaso Landolfi Translated by Joachim Neugroschel Original title: Racconto d’autunno
Landolfi’s only novel to appear in English will please those who like Gothic: though written by a contemporary writer (he died in 1975) and set in the mid-twentieth century, the novel seems a throwback to that nineteenth-century genre. This is a book about strange passions, obsession, solitude, (more...)
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