Pushkin Press has released a welcome new collection of the great Austrian writer's novellas, with their recurring themes of a young man's coming of age and the price of adultery.
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Book Review: ‘Barcelona Shadows’ by Marc Pastor
This gothic tale, set in anarchist-haunted, war-drained, superstitious Barcelona just prior to World War I, is a fictionalized account of the notorious real-life career of Enriqueta Martí, a serial child-killer and pimp.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Subtly Worded’ – Short Stories by Teffi from Pushkin Press
The Russian writer Teffi, whose real name was Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, enjoyed great popularity throughout the first half of the 20th century as she chronicled life in Russia before and after the Revolution and then as an emigre in Paris. But her work has faded into relative obscurity since. I …
Read More »Book Review: Selected Stories by Stefan Zweig
A fine new translation of some of the great works by this great Freud-influenced writer of the era between the Wars.
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