הספרים של הוצאת Pushkin Press
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Following the death of her mother, Franziska turns away from love and follows a grimly determined path to achieve a career as a concert pianist. Her determination takes her from her humble home in a small Czech town to an unconventional life in Prag...
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Ero dietro di te: you know what that means in English? It means I was behind you. She was actually sitting at a table behind us for the entire meal and she spent the whole time watching me without me realizing. It’s funny, but I’m starting to think that it wouldn’t be st...
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A necklace of pearls and a necklace of diamonds are at the center of these two contrasting stories. The Necklace is a story of vanity, of two lives blighted by the loss of a diamond necklace, celebrated for its twist ending. From the fairytale-like collection Wint...
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In 1837, 25-year-old Charles Dickens was asked to "tidy up" the autobiography of Joseph Grimaldi, one of the greatest English clowns and pantomimes of all time and the first to fill the theaters of early 19th-century London. The task was so laborious that Dickens ended up redrafting and rewrit...
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Casanova (1725–1798), a Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city, created myths about both himself and his Italian contemporaries. In this masterly biographical essay, Stefan Zweig examines the man and the city he le...
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"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better get to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away ..." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with th...
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The narrator, sent to an African country to run a branch of a large French bank, indulges in a liaison with Clotilde; only to discover in her unexpected and shocking depths of perversity. This elegant novella of disturbing eroticism was the book with which Morand returned triumph...
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The disturbing narrative of a man who explores his sense of detachment by deliberately arousing the passion of a young society girl, this diary records his discovery of the girl and his attempts to control her. Inspired by events in Kierkegaard's own life that are still shrouded...
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Three stories present three portraits of young men learning the realities of adult life. Boxing takes us into the world of gyms, a world of bodies and nerves stretched to the limit, of sacrifice and challenge. Two young men confront each other in the fight of their lives: one of...
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The restless ruler of an obscure Central European state plots a coup against himself and escapes to Venice in search of "real" experience. There he falls in with a team of con-men and ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself. His journey through successive levels of illusio...
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In this collection, Petr Kràl has the unerring ability to perceive, to catch the commonplace by surprise, and with unsettling clarity see beyond the everyday to the fabric of life beneath. Whether describing twilight, a toothpick, the ritual of shaving, or the act of going...
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