Once you become entangled in Samuel Beckett’s writing, you remain entangled—always. His late works Company (1980), Ill Seen Ill Said (1981)
If we were to distill Nabokov’s theology into a single principle, it would be this: “Cruelty is, above all, inattention.” In Nabokov’s world
In the fourth installment of the series “Filicide in Modern Persian Short Fiction”, we turn to a story by one of the third-generation Iranian fiction writers: the short story “The
Taghvai published his short story collection That Same Summer in 1969. The stories are set in southern Iran, and in terms of narrative style and choice of language, they bear
My Uncle Napoleon, even after half a century, continues to attract attention and spark debate.
If Büchner conceives madness as the product of military oppression and humiliation, and Herzog transforms it into an existential nightmare, then Mehrjui portrays it as a symptom of cultural rupture—a
The novel Pedro Páramo portrays the tragedy of the downfall and decay of people trapped in a cycle of political and religious domination.
In this story, a man, driven by his obsessive love for a woman and frustrated by his inability to attain the relationship he desires, decides to divert an airplane from
Dandil tells the story of a village girl named Tamara, whose father, for the price of a mere loaf of bread, sells her to the owner of a brothel.