Resultados para "Novellen" en Narrativa literaria

La Mei, després de naufragar en la feina i immersa en l'apatia matrimonial, s'aboca a escriure instal·lada a la casa del bosc de la seva infantesa, on s'encararà rabiosament a la grisor del seu passat, a un present inoportú i a un futur a la deriva. Aquesta és la crònica d'una rebel·lió...

In questo volume si trovano raccolti alcuni dei più noti racconti di Arthur Schnitzler. A tenerli insieme, la comune atmosfera di'incertezza che incombe all'interno dell'orizzonte in cui si muovono i personaggi. Le tecniche di scrittura sono differenti senza che ci sia la predominanza di una rispetto alle altre.

Una educació sentimental que és també una denúncia del masclisme. «Alhora tendra, divertida, crua i autèntica. Tristament autèntica». Maria Climent. «Zafón parla de dones silenciades, de dones que han estat "actrius secundàries de la seva pròpia vida"». Sara Muñoz. El Punt Avui...

Madame de Treymes follows the fortunes of two innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, scion of a great house of the Faubourg St. Germain, and John Durham, her childhood friend, who arrives in Paris intent on persuading Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead.

O trabalho pesado, os maus tratos, a falta de liberdade, o desrespeito aos direitos básicos... Um dia, os trabalhadores resolveram dizer "basta" e deram início a uma revolução, expulsando de vez seu carrasco para bem longe! Infelizmente, o paraíso de justiça e igualdade com que sonharam não passou de uma grande ilusão. Claro que, neste livro, os trabalhadores são animais e os líderes do novo regime, porcos. Uma fábula satírica, genialmente criada por George Orwell, aclamada mundialmente e que chega em uma edição super especial para os leitores da Editora do Brasil.

11 korte og tankevækkende noveller om bedraget i alle dets afskygninger. Vi bedrager alle. Hver dag. Andet vil ikke være til at holde ud. Bedraget kan være åbenlyst gennemskueligt. Herved bliver det underholdende og tilgiveligt. Men det kan også foregå i mørke med økonomisk eller personlig gevinst for øje. Det får næsten altid konsekvenser. Endelig er der selvbedraget uden for alt lys og mørke. Ren uskyldighed eller snigende katastrofe. Beatrice Dragsholm (f. 1972) er uddannet advokatsekretær. "Bedrag" er hendes første novellesamling.

Biografia dell'autore: La coda del diavolo, Il bastione di Monforte, In Piazza della Scala, L'ultima giornata, Primavera, Semplice storia...

Karl Rabensteiner ist auf einer Zugfahrt nach Berlin, als in der Hauptstadt ein vermeintlicher Anschlag verübt wird. Obwohl er nichts mit der Sache zu tun hat, kommt der junge Mann in Untersuchungshaft. Als ihn sein Lebenspartner Pascal dort besucht, wird für Rabensteiner alles noch viel komplizierter.

In On the Rocks, Eva Marino’s free-spirited mother Leonora is on the cusp of her second marriage and Eva is to serve as the maid of honor. Between binge-watching episodes of Midsomer Murders, attending therapy, and drinking mojitos at the Grumpy Monk Tavern directly after the yoga classes she takes with her mother, Eva attempts to keep her grief at bay.

In Hide Island, his sixteenth book and eighth collection of stories, Richard Burgin explores themes of love and crime, memory and identity, abuse and redemption, and the contradictory battle between our fierce struggle to live lives worth remembering and our desire to disentangle ourselves from a past we wish to forget.

Stefan Kopmann, der mit seinem Kommilitonen Helbi sein letztes Lehrerpraktikum auf einer Insel absolviert, gerät allmählich in die Fänge seiner exzentrischen Mentorin, die sich an ihrem untreuen Ehemann, einem charmanten Stasioffizier, rächen will. Die Folgen sind ein Mord und ein gesellschaftlicher Skandal, der die Moral der Herrschenden entblößt.

In the title novella, a third-rate American playwright named Landau attends a literary conference in Prague, where an organized group excursion to a former concentration camp degenerates into a battle of wills and an exercise in egomania and public humiliation. Nina, the heroine of the second novella, "Three Pigs in Five Days," is sent to Paris to write an article for her lover's travel journal - a dizzying, erotic pilgrimage that forces her to see how sex has distorted her view of the world.

On the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife, the ghost of his drowned daughter, the ghosts of his father, and his grandmother, and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanation. In the cramped car, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining the exodus from the South - people seeking a new life, whose motives, declared or otherwise, will change Minister's life with devastating consequences. 

Novellesamlingen indeholder nogle af Herman Bangs mest kendte fortællinger. Ligesom i dele af sit øvrige forfatterskab skrildrer han nogle af samfundets stille eksistenser, og alle novellerne tematiserer på forskellig vis forholdet mellem kønnene samt kvinders muligheder for at have et kunstnerisk virke. Herman Bang (1857-1912) er én af de vigtigste moderne danske forfattere. Han er især kendt for sin impressionistiske skrivestil samt sin skildring af kvindelig seksualitet og kærlighed uden for ægteskabet.

New York Times best-selling author Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog - a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian - has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance. For the first time, Brown Dog gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one volume - the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison's irresistible Everyman.

Jim Harrison is one of America’s most beloved and critically acclaimed authors, and this collection of novellas is Harrison at his most memorable - a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity.

Dr. Niels Berners - a Swiss plastic surgeon living in New York - is struggling to recover from his dysfunctional son's abandonment of him. He joins a group of four other parents, all with absent children either in jail or in jeopardy, to discuss their feelings and seek a sense of community, comfort, and closure.

Harrison has tremendous fun with his own reputation in the title novella about an aging writer in Montana who spars with his estranged wife, with whom he still shares a home; weathers the slings and arrows of literary success; and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim and the unplanned litter of piglets that follow soon after. In "Eggs", a Montana woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents and collecting eggs at their country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so.

A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares “Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and...

Shusaku Endo (1923-1996), widely considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, is known for his historical novels, which masterfully probe the encounters between the cultures and religions of East and West from a Japanese Catholic perspective. A salient and curious theme in his work is the unique image of a maternal God, and a concomitant sense of loss and longing for maternal love.