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In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world
literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view
of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too
often, Kundera suggests, a novel is thought about only within the
confines of the language and nation of its origin, when in fact
what makes a novel matter is its ability to reveal some previously
unknown aspect of our existence. Kundera describes how the best
novels, from Don Quixote to Ulysses and Madame Bovary to The Trial,
do just that.
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Babylon (Hardcover)
Yasmina Reza; Translated by Linda Asher
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R524
R426
Discovery Miles 4 260
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Babylon (Hardcover)
Yasmina Reza; Translated by Linda Asher
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R323
Discovery Miles 3 230
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The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's
gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda Asher's
timeless translation. There was an exaggerated humility about her.
Her cowed eyes, her way of gliding noiselessly about without
bumping into things, of quivering nervously at the slight est word,
were the very image of a scullery maid accustomed to hardship. And
yet he sensed, beneath that image, glints of pride held firmly in
check. She was anaemic. Her flat chest was not formed to rouse
desire. Nevertheless, she was strangely appealing, perhaps because
she seemed troubled, despondent, sickly. In the windswept seaside
town of Concarneau, a local wine merchant is shot. In fact, someone
is out to kill all the influential men and the entire town is soon
sent into a state of panic. For Maigret, the answers lie with the
pale, downtrodden waitress Emma, and a strange yellow dog lurking
in the shadows... Penguin is publishing the entire series of
Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published
in a previous translation as A Face for a Clue. 'Compelling,
remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of
the twentieth century' Guardian
Bruno Sachs is a country doctor who makes house calls and feels
deeply for his patients. There are broken bones, unwanted
pregnancies, people without the will to live, a friend dying of
cancer. His pity for his fellow creatures is both his motivating
force and his own untreatable condition. Among the deaths, love
affairs, and small town gossip, a love story emerges at the heart
of the novel-between Dr. Sachs and a young woman upon whom he once
performed an abortion.
The Case of Dr. Sachs is a novel filled with voices of silent
suffering and arias of quiet joy, and one dedicated to the notion
that literature, like medicine, can save lives.
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