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Home by Toni Morrison (Vintage, 2012-05-08)
Genre: Fiction

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, he journeys to his native Georgia with a renewed sense of purpose in search of his sister, but it becomes clear that their troubles began well before their wartime separation. Together, they return to their rural hometown of Lotus, where buried secrets are unearthed and where Frank learns at last what it means to be a man, what it takes to heal, and—above all—what it means to come home.
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison (Vintage, 2007-07-24)
Genre: Fiction

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
The Writer Before the Page by Toni Morrison (Vintage, 2019-10-29)
Genre: Literary Collections

A Vintage Shorts selection. In her elegant yet piercing style, one of our most celebrated and revered writers, Toni Morrison, interrogates the writer’s task and responsibility in two illuminating and essential pieces. Initially delivered as parts of lecture series and collected in The Source of Self-Regard, these pieces exhibit the depth with which Morrison probes the capacity and power of literature. An ebook short.
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison (Vintage, 2015-04-21)
Genre: Fiction

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.” “Powerful.... A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as fierce as it is resonant.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Sula by Toni Morrison (Vintage, 2004-06-08)
Genre: Fiction

Two black women grow up in a small Ohio town, mature along sharply divergent paths, confront and reconcile with each other.
Tales of Madness by Luigi Pirandello (Branden Books, 1984)
Genre: Italy

This book constitutes a unique selection from that monumental corpus, will introduce to the English reading public some of Pirandello's most moving novelle. In each of them one can sense the deep compassion the author must have felt for his characters, generally portrayed as disaffected victims of society, destiny, or their own self deceptions.
Tales of Suicide by Luigi Pirandello (Branden Books, 1988)
Genre: Fiction

Suicide, the act of killing oneself voluntarily and intentionally, is clearly one of the most important themes developed by Pirandello during his long literary career. Although he never focused on self-destruction as an end in itself, he made ample use of it to dramatise his tragic view of the human condition. Indeed, this theme recurs with astonishing frequency in his short stories, play and novels. It even appears sporadically in his poetry.
Plays by Luigi Pirandello (Northwestern University Press, 1998)
Genre: N/A

Luigi Pirandello is best known for his ability to create farcical tragedies that pit reality against appearance in such a way that objective truth is never revealed. Time magazine called Pirandello's work a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd -- the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in Ionesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In new translations by acclaimed playwright and translator Eric Bentley, these versions of four of Pirandello's most celebrated plays -- Six Characters in Search of an Author, Emperor Henry, The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, and Right You Are -- are considered to be the standards for American productions. They capture the playwright's unique voice with remarkable precision, while at the same time attending to the rigors of the American stage.
Luigi Pirandello, 1867-1936 by Luigi Pirandello (N/A, 1998)
Genre: Religion and poetry

The first of a two-volume set containing English translations of Luigi Pirandello's original Sicilian plays. This volume also includes the preface, a complete list of Pirandello's plays and an introduction setting Pirandello's life and Sicilian plays in context.
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello (Penguin, 1996-02-01)
Genre: Drama

A volume of plays from the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, including his most popular and controversial work A Penguin Classic Pirandello is brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre. This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search of an Author, in which six characters invade the stage and demand to be included in the play. The tragedy Henry IV dramatizes the lucid madness of a man who may be King. In So It Is (If You Think So), the townspeople exercise a morbid curiosity attempting to discover “the truth” about the Ponza family. Each of these plays can lay claim to being Pirandello’s masterpiece, and in exploring the nature of human personality, each one stretches the resources of drama to their limits. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Naked Masks by Luigi Pirandello (Penguin, 1957-09-01)
Genre: Drama

This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century. Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally original plays dramatize with force and eloquence the isolation of the individual from society and from himself. The editor, Eric Bentley, is an international theater authority. In addition to the Introduction and the biographical and bibliographical material in the Appendices, Mr. Bentley has prepared for this volume the first English translations of the play Liolà and Pirandello’s important “Preface” to Six Characters in Search of an Author. Included Plays: Liolà It Is So! (If You Think So) Henry IV Six Characters in Search of an Author Each in His Own Way
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello (DigiCat, 2022-11-22)
Genre: Fiction

This is an absurdist drama that revolves around six characters who interrupt a play rehearsal to request that the Producer wrap up their story, claiming that their author never finished the play for which they were created. While the Producer and actors are initially skeptical, they are captivated by the characters' predicament and pulled into their crisis. As the characters and the stage company struggle to resolve the ambiguity that plagues not only their existence but also their identity, conflict arises between reality and appearance.
One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello (Prabhat Prakashan, 2021-01-01)
Genre: Fiction

"What are you doing?" my wife asked me, as she saw me lingering, contrary to my wont, in front of the mirror. "Nothing," I told her. "I am just having a look here, in my nose, in this nostril. It hurts me a little, when I take hold of it." My wife smiled. "I thought," she said, "that you were looking to see which side it is hangs down the lower." I whirled like a dog whose tail has been stepped on: "Which side hangs down the lower? My nose? Mine?"
Notes on André Gide by Roger Martin du Gard (Helen Marx Books, 2005)
Genre: Authors, French

Andre Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize, is a revered figure in French literature. The quirky, intimate and fascinating portrait drawn in these notes' can be relished by someone who has never heard of, or even read, andre gide. Gide's friendship with Roger Martin Du Gard lasted over 38 years. In his journal, Gide wrote of his friend, 'with him i can let myself go and be perfectly natural. There is nobody whose presence now brings me greater comfort.' A beautiful collection of conversations on which we can eavesdrop.'
Kijken door een sleutelgat by Roger Martin du Gard (Singel Uitgeverijen, 2022-03-29)
Genre: Literary Collections

Kort na het einde van de Eerste Wereldoorlog begon Roger Martin du Gard een dagboek bij te houden, een activiteit die hij dertig jaar (tot 31 december 1949) onafgebroken voortzette. Enkele jaren voor zijn dood voegde hij daar persoonlijke documenten, zoals brieven, eerdere dagboeknotities en jeugdherinneringen aan toe. Uit dit ruim drieënhalf duizend pagina’s tellende Journal maakte vertaalster Anneke Alderlieste een keuze: ze selecteerde passages over vriendschap (volgens hem belangrijker dan liefde), zijn werk en constante twijfel, de angst voor de dood, het ‘spinnen’ (dat trage gegons van gedachten) en zijn voorliefde om te observeren (sleutelgatkijken). Dan is er nog de politiek, welhaast vanzelfsprekend vanwege het wereldgebeuren in deze periode. Een eindeloos genuanceerd schrijven: alles om zo dicht mogelijk bij de waarheid te komen.
Five Early Works by Pär Lagerkvist (N/A, 1989)
Genre: N/A

These five works translated by Roy Arthur Lagerkvist (1891-1974), introduced a new spirit of modernism into Swedish poetry, prose, and drama. In this work Swanson translates many of Lagerkvist's short stories, a play, prose sketches, and essays.The text contains short stories from Iron and Men; the play The Last Man; prose sketches The Expectant Guest and The Morning; and essays from The Clenched Fist.
Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist (Vintage, 2011-09-14)
Genre: Fiction

Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe." Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair
The Sibyl by Pär Lagerkvist (Vintage, 1963-09-12)
Genre: Fiction

A parable on divine love, the stories of the wandering Jew and an outcast priestess of Delphi.
Pilgrim at Sea by Pär Lagerkvist (New York, N. Y. : Random House, 1964)
Genre: Fiction

With Pilgrim at Sea the author has completed his tetralogy (set of 4 books) searching for God--journeying to the Holy Land but we never get there, we are always at sea. In this tale, Giovanni, the priest, insults the pious travelers and advises Tobias to embrace insecurity as the only sure thing because the sea does not concern itself with right and wrong, sin or guilt. You learn to accept yourself from the sea--his existentialist sermon. There is a shipwreck and plundering, etc.
Evening Land by Pär Lagerkvist (Allardyce, Barnett, 2001)
Genre: Fiction

Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Anthony Barnett. P"r Lagerkvist (1891-1974) was one of Sweden's greatest, most prolific, twentieth-century novelists and short story writers. EVENING LAND is the first complete translation of Lagerkvist's ninth and final volume of poetry, the deceptively simple Aftonland (1953). An intensely private man who refused to court publicity, the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1951. Barnett's translation (his translation of Robert Giroux's BLANK from the French is also available at SPD) sets straight an earlier, unfinished and otherwise compromised version by W. H. Auden and Leif Sj"berg. "All things exist, only I exist no more, / everything remains, the fragrance of rain in the grass/ as I remember it and the sough of the wind through the trees, / the flight of clouds and the human heart's disquiet.// Only my heart's disquiet no longer exists"-(from "The Dead")
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov (Vintage, 1989-12-17)
Genre: Fiction

WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 1965 WINNER OF THE STALIN PRIZE, 1941 Mikhail Sholokhov’s groundbreaking epic novel gives a sweeping depiction of Russian life and culture in the early 20th century. In the same vein as War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, And Quiet Flows the Don gives readers a glimpse into many aspects of Russian culture, and the choices a country makes when faced with war and destruction. In his enormous epic of Cossack life during the Revolution...Mikhail Sholokhov has achieved even greater power, sustained narrative gift and stirring human truthfulness.”—New York Times “In addition to its panoramic grandeur, the wealth of its characters and its historic realism, Sholokhov's book is memorable for its portrayal of the primitive and already almost legendary life of the Don Cossacks.”—Malcolm Cowley, New Republic
And Quiet Flows the Don; a Novel by Mikhail Sholokhov (Legare Street Press, 2022-10-26)
Genre: Fiction

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov (N/A, 2012-08-15)
Genre: Soviet Union

And Quiet Flows the Don is the great classic monumental novel so favorably compared to Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Like the Tolstoy novel, And Quiet Flows the Don is an epic picture of Russian life during a time of crisis and examines it through political, military, romantic, and civilian lenses. It took fourteen years to complete. Earning the Stalin Prize, it became the most-read work of Soviet fiction, selling ten million copies. It even won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The story traces the progress of the cossack Gregor Melekhov from youthful lover to Red Army soldier. Various modern Russian novelists have been hailed as successors to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky but here is the first one who merits the distinction, and who at the same time is modern, original and universal enough in appeal to catch the imagination of the American reading public.
The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis by Odysseus Elytis (JHU Press, 2004-12-22)
Genre: Fiction

"Originally published in 1997, The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis was the fist complete collection of Elytis's poems in any language." "For this expanded new edition, translators Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris have added sixty free verse and prose poems from the posthumous 1998 volume From Close By; a set of song lyrics, The Rhos of Eros; and a cantata, The Sovereign Sun."--BOOK JACKET.
Studies in Odyssey 11 by Odysseus Elytis (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000)
Genre: Literary Criticism

This monograph deals with the main problems of the Eleventh Book of the Odyssey (the Nekyia) in the light of recent research. The journey to the underworld is not only troublesome in its composition but also important for its place in the poem, perhaps the most important of the hero's adventures. After a brief introduction, which surveys the present state of research and outlines methodology, the book examines in four chapters: 1. The question of the sources (borrowings, influences etc.) from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Greek catabaseis (those of Heracles, Orpheus, Theseus and Peirithous) and cult practices at the Oracles of the Dead (the Thesprotian Oracle and that of Trophonius in Lebadeia). 2. The relation of our Nekyia to the poem and especially to the apologoi, as it is part of a larger composition, and its themes (journey to the land of the dead, catabasis, nekyomanteia). 3. The problematic parts of the Book and the question of their authenticity, Catalogue of Heroines, Intermezzo and Review of Hades. 4. The concepts of the Afterlife with the two contrasting views about the fate of psyche. There follows: a conclusion, which gives a summary of the results reached in the discussion of individual topics, select bibliography and the indexes (a Greek index, an index of passages and a general index).
The Great Galeoto; Folly Or Saintliness; Two Plays Done from the Verse of José Echegaray Into English by José Echegaray (Wentworth Press, 2019-03-11)
Genre: History

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The Son of Don Juan by José Echegaray (N/A, 2004-06)
Genre: Drama

Jose Echegaray was a Spanish scholar and dramatist, born in Madrid about 1835. In 1858 he became professor of mathematics and physics in the School of Engineers in his native city, in which capacity he published many valuable works on science and mathematics. In 1868 he was made minister of commerce, minister of public instruction in 1873, and minister of finances in the following year. It is by his dramatic works, however, that he is best known, both at home and abroad. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904.
The son of Don Juan by José Echegaray (Good Press, 2023-11-03)
Genre: Drama

"The son of Don Juan" by José Echegaray (translated by James Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Great Galeoto by José Echegaray (N/A, 2004-06)
Genre: Drama

Jose Echegaray was a Spanish scholar and dramatist, born in Madrid about 1835. In 1858 he became professor of mathematics and physics in the School of Engineers in his native city, in which capacity he published many valuable works on science and mathematics. In 1868 he was made minister of commerce, minister of public instruction in 1873, and minister of finances in the following year. It is by his dramatic works, however, that he is best known, both at home and abroad. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904.
The Peasants by Wladyslaw Reymont (Penguin UK, 2022-11-03)
Genre: Fiction

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride - but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons - Autumn to Summer - the tangled skein of their story unravels, watched eagerly by the other peasants: the gossip Jagustynka, pious Roch, hot-blooded Mateusz, gentle Witek ... Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist, at turns comic, tragic and reflective, Wladyslaw Reymont's magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland, and to the eternal, timeless matters of the heart.
The Comedienne, for the Love of Children by Wladyslaw Reymont (N/A, 2016-07-09)
Genre: N/A

The Comédienne is a book by Wladyslaw S. Reymont. Wladyslaw S. Reymont is the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is the story of a girl who comes to the capital to make a theater career. She meets corrupt, jealous, hysterical, and vulgar people lacking high principles and interests. This is one of the most famous books by the author. For the Love of Children is a curiously plotted work by Wladyslaw S.Reymont (translated in 2016 by Sergiej Nowikow). The main storyline deals with the relations between a poor boy and a girl from a rich family. Besides, it is a striking depiction of different types of maternal love - cruel, self-sacrificing, patient. This is the first publication of the translation. This is the translation by S.Nowikow, which is easy to read and understand. It is one of the best translations of the work ever published. The layout of the book is really easy to use and navigate. It also includes awesome illustrations that go right along with the story.
The Revolt of the Animals by Wladyslaw Reymont (Glagoslav Publications B.V., 2022-11-29)
Genre: Fiction

"Don't give up! I'll help you!" barks Rex, the hero of Wladyslaw Reymont's Revolt of the Animals (1924), "carried away with wrath and compassion" at the sight of his friend the old donkey with "his head covered in a hempen sack, being whipped by boys harrying him towards a pit of lime." Who would not be roused to a righteous indignation at the sight of such wanton cruelty, inflicted upon a wise, sentient creature - for the perverse pleasure of man, that "crown and lord of all creation," to whom dominion over this world was supposedly given by the Lord at the dawn of creation? Certainly, the beasts of farmyard and field know better than anyone how gentle a master human beings can be, and so it is no surprise when this scene becomes the last straw for our patient, long-suffering quadruped cousins. "Take everyone with you," says Blackie, who - like most of the other animals on the farm, had remained impervious, up till now, to Rex's urgings to revolt - "everybody's suffering the same misery, whips, and slavery. It's eating away at us all." Thus begins the animal fable of the Polish Nobel Prize winner (1924), inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and the Polish-Soviet War, which had just ended a year before the novel was serialised in 1922. Banned in Poland during the Communist years and only republished in this century, The Revolt of the Animals is now made available to the English readership for the first time in the translation of Charles S. Kraszewski. Comparisons to George Orwell's later novel Animal Farm will naturally arise in the reader's mind - and often, to the advantage of Reymont.
A Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra (English Translation) by Wladyslaw Reymont (N/A, 2020-07-27)
Genre: Religion

In 1894, Wladyslaw Reymont, one of Poland's most important writers, went on a walking pilgrimage from the right bank of Warsaw to Jasna Góra, Poland's most important Marian shrine in Czestochowa. He went as a journalist to cover the pilgrimage for the press rather than out of piety. Quickly, however, he was won over by the simple but deep faith of the pilgrims, mostly simple peasants among whom he felt like an outsider. Available in English for the first time, A Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra is a masterpiece of late-nineteenth century journalism filled with astute sociological observations of the Poles and their faith under Russian domination and richly sensuous descriptions of the beauty of the Polish countryside.
The Comedienne by Wladyslaw Reymont (Onesuch Pty Limited, 2011)
Genre: Fiction

The Comedienne draws on Nobel Prize winner, Wladyslav Reymont's, own experiences as an actor in a struggling provincial theatre at the fin de siecle, at time of massive social upheaval in Europe. Reymont depicts, in a slow burning tragedy, a young provincial Janina, the comedienne of the title, who joins a Warsaw theatre company and struggles toward what was then a very modern notion of personal freedom. A Comedienne also played drama and tragedy and the word in Polish had some connotation of a deceiver. As such, the title in Reymont s day would have implied a somewhat darker novel that we might unwittingly expect today. This edition has been completely re-edited and includes over 500 amendments, corrections and new translations to the orignal text. The introduction by Marianna Rychlowska includes; - Biographical details of the author - Historical context of the book - Literary notes - Historical review of early theatre in Poland - Theatre reportage by Henryk Sienkiewicz These unique insights provide the contemporary reader with much of the commonly understood historical context that was assumed of the original audience.
The Combedienne by Wladyslaw Reymont (N/A, 2015-08-16)
Genre: N/A

Hardcover reprint of the original edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Wladyslaw S. Reymont. The Combedienne. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Wladyslaw S. Reymont. The Combedienne
The Combedienn by Wladyslaw Reymont (Sagwan Press, 2015-08-22)
Genre: N/A

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Comedienne by Wladyslaw Reymont (Alpha Edition, 2021-12-29)
Genre: N/A

The book "" The Comedienne "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Komedyen by Wladyslaw Reymont (Fihrist Kitap, 2022-11-03)
Genre: Fiction

1924 Nobel ödüllü Leh yazar Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, dünya çapında üne kavuşmuş ilk eseri olan Komedyen ile ilk kez Türkçede, sizlerle... Gençliğinde tiyatroya, oyunculuğa gönül vermiş olan Leh yazar Wladyslaw Reymont (1867-1925)’un kendi hayatından anektodlarla dolu ikinci romanı “Komedyen” (1896), halkın sanatı ve sanatçıyı küçümseyici tutumunu yansıttığı, bir kadın sanatçının trajik hikâyesidir. Sosyalist ve gerçekçi bir tutuma sahip olan yazar için bu hikâye, fazlasıyla öznel bir yönü yansıtmakla beraber, derin bir halk eleştirisi ve halka olan kırgınlığın bir ifadesi olarak da görülebilmektedir. Başlarda “Genç Polonya” akımının içerisinde anılan Reymont, sembolik ve “sanat için sanat” yönü kuvvetli bir romantizmi eserlerinde barındırır. Diğer yandan unutulmamalıdır ki, Wladyslaw Reymont’a 1924 yılında Nobel Ödülü aldıran başyapıtı “Köylüler”, toplumcu bir destandır. Polonya’nın bir Rus toprağı olduğu dönem içinde büyüyen ve yükselen sosyalizmi içselleştiren “fakir-soylu” Reymont’un kaleminde, işte bu “toplumcu tavır ve topluma kırgınlık” zıtlığı diyebileceğimiz Rus ikilemini sonuna kadar hissedebiliriz. Belirtmek gerekir ki “Komediantka” olan kitabın asıl dildeki başlığı, kadın komedyen demektir. Ek olarak, komedyenlik, bildiğimiz anlamda bir komedi oyuncusu anlamına gelmez, taşra oyuncularına verilen isimdir. Dolayısıyla, kadın komedyenimiz ikinci sınıf bir tiyatroculuğun içerisinde trajik sonuna doğru ilerlemektedir. Bu gerilim, sanatın yüceliğini barındıran içsel gerilimleri ve psikolojik tahlilleri okuyucuya sunarken, bilindik o kötü sona gittiğimizin bilincinde, okuyucuyu içine çeker ve çeker... Fihrist olarak, Reymont’un Komedyen adlı bu çarpıcı eserini Türkçeye kazandırmanın mutluluğuyla, keyifli okumalar dileriz.
Bunt by Wladyslaw Reymont (Jiahu Books, 2015-06-30)
Genre: N/A

Reymont's last book, Bunt, was serialized 1922 and published in book form in 1924. It describes a revolt by animals which take over their farm in order to introduce "equality." The revolt quickly degenerates into abuse and bloody terror. The story was a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and was banned 1945-1989 in communist Poland, along with George Orwell's similar novella, Animal Farm (published in Britain in 1945).
The Procession of Memories by Harry Martinson (N/A, 2009)
Genre: Literary Criticism

Fatherless and abandoned by his mother at age six, Nobel Laureate Martinson grew up mostly in rural foster homes in the south of Sweden in the early years of the 20th century. This bilingual edition (Swedish and English), introduces his early work as a poet.
Chickweed Wintergreen by Harry Martinson (Bloodaxe Books Limited, 2010)
Genre: Poetry

Nobel Prize in Literature, 1974 Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Harry Martinson (1904-78) sailed the oceans from 1920 to 1927 as an escape from an unhappy childhood in rural southwest Sweden. Returning to his native tracts, he devoted himself to writing and eventually became one of the best-known authors of his time, his books appealing widely both to academics and to the general reader. His election to the Swedish Academy in 1949 was seen as a gesture towards a generation of more or less self-educated working-class writers, and he shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with novelist Eyvind Johnson. Sections of the Swedish press responded with such vehemence to the way Academicians had rewarded two of their own that Martinson vowed never to publish again, and his last years were darkened by despair and depression as his view of the world became bleaker. His books reflect his upbringing, his travels and his interest in science and social questions. His poetry has many strands but the one most often admired is that which combines close scrutiny of the small events of the natural world with an intense awareness of cosmic distances in time and space. While his prose books have reached a wide readership in several languages, Martinson's poems have appeared only sporadically in English. Robin Fulton's translations provide the first substantial selection of Harry Martinson's poetry for English-language readers. His edition has an introductory essay by Staffan Söderblom.
Views from a Tuft of Grass by Harry Martinson (N/A, 2005)
Genre: Fiction

Winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature, Harry Martinson (1904-1978) was noted for his innovative use of language combined with his keen observations on nature. He wrote various books of poetry, inlcuding Nomad, Natur, Cikada and Tuvnor. Martinson also wrote fiction, travel books - the most famous of which is the renowned Kap Farval (Cape Farewell). The essays in this volume reflect a maturer and cleaner style and are less philosophically dense than his earlier works.
Aniara by Harry Martinson (N/A, 1999)
Genre: Swedish fiction

This Nobel Prize-winning epic poem was published in Sweden during the Cold War to great acclaim. It tells of the luxurious spaceship Aniara, loaded with 8000 evacuees, fleeing an Earth made uninhabitable by technological man. A malfunction knocks Aniara off course, taking these would-be Mars colonists on an irreversible journey into deep space.
Nomad by Harry Martinson (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2017-11-01)
Genre: Poetry

KRIGSMÅLAD KONVOJ. I det stora kriget gick vi i en konvoj över Nordsjön. Kröp mot Kirkvall. Stenkolsröken hängde miltals akter ut. Och svärmar med mås. Bländvita moln av mås. Mås. Mås. Som ba- dade i vår rök. Döko upp och ner i den. Vi gingo väster ut. Nomad, Harry Martinsons diktsamling utgiven 1931, var författarens stora genombrott. Ett centralt motiv är författarens dröm om Världsnomaden: den nya universella människan som ska leva sitt liv i ständig andlig och kroppslig förflyttning. I en recension skrev Artur Lundkvist att det ”återstår endast att konstatera att den unga svenska lyriken fått en ny representant, kanske den störste, den mest genuint lyriska av alla.” Under sitt liv belönades Harry Martinson med många olika utmärkelser, däribland De Nios pris (1938), SvD:s litteraturpris (1944), Bellmanspriset (1951 och 1962), Litteraturfrämjandets stora pris (1955) och Nobelpriset 1974 tillsammans med Eyvind Johnson. Omslagsformgivare: Kristin Lidström
Gyro by Harry Martinson (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2016-11-07)
Genre: Literary Collections

1940-talet var krigets, förintelsens och atombombens decennium. Ändå trodde Harry Martinson ännu 1947 på det godas möjligheter, på det som förvandlar död materia till kvalitativt liv: Gyro, som står för anordningen, anpassningen. Den ordning vi inte får störa. Martinson förklarade vad som gällde i en samling klarsynta och optimistiska uppsatser om gyrokompassen, om taoism, om det tokiga i att flyga och i att inte längre berätta folksagor. Uppsatserna kom aldrig ut under Martinsons livstid, utan publicerades för första gången 1986.
The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert by Jaroslav Seifert (Catbird Press, 1998)
Genre: Literary Criticism

Although Seifert lived through the many historic turns of his homeland, his was not a political poetry, except in its constant expression of love for his homeland, its beauties and its values. He was the great poet of Prague, of love, of the senses. His work was unpretentious, lyrical yet irreverent, earthy, charming. Seifert was known for the simplicity of his verse, yet his poems are full of surprises, never what at first they seem.
Early Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert by Jaroslav Seifert (Northwestern University Press, 1999)
Genre: Poetry

Despite being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1984, much of Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert's work has yet to be translated into English. Publication of Early Poetry will earn for Seifert well-deserved literary recognition. Seifert's poetry is strongly situated within the Czech literary tradition of Poetism, which evolved into a playful, lighthearted refuge from world history while maintaining an edge of social consciousness.
The Casting of Bells by Jaroslav Seifert (Iowa City : The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1983)
Genre: Czech poetry

From the Nobel Committee: "Endowed with freshness, sensuality, and rich in inventiveness, his work provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man." From The London Times Literary Supplement: "Elegant." From Choice: "Recommended for all collections of modern poetry and Czechoslavakian literature."
Complete Works by Harold Pinter (Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2014-12-23)
Genre: Drama

Collects some of the author's most famous writings, including plays, short stories, and essays.
Complete Works by Harold Pinter (Grove Press, 1990)
Genre: Drama

Collects some of the author's most famous writings, including plays, short stories, and essays.
The Essential Pinter by Harold Pinter (Grove Press, 2006)
Genre: Drama

Presents selections of the work of playwright Harold Pinter. Includes key plays, poetry, and the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature lecture.
Complete Works, Volume I by Harold Pinter (Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2014-12-02)
Genre: Drama

Harold Pinter has long been acknowledged as one of the most influential playwrights in contemporary theatre; his arresting and original works have left a lasting imprint on the development of the stage and screen while delighting audiences around the world. This, the first of four volumes, contains his first five plays, including The Birthday Party (1958), his first full-length drama; as well as two short stories—"The Black and White" and "The Examination"—both written before Pinter turned to the theatre. Pinter's exacting and complex use of language and the features that mark his "comedies of menace" are clearly realized in these plays and stories. His speech "Writing for the Theatre" introduces the volume and establishes the context for those early years. Includes: The Birthday Party The Room The Dumb Waiter A Slight Ache A Night Out "The Black and White" "The Examination" "Writing for the Theatre"
Complete Works by Harold Pinter (Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2015-01-27)
Genre: Drama

Dramatist, scriptwriter, short story writer, novelist, poet, director, and actor, Harold Pinter has earned universal praise for his distinctive style and imagination. In this, the most recent of four volumes, Pinter's work echoes many of his earlier themes and techniques-struggles for power and an ambience of menace-while finding fresh subject matter and means to express his changing dramatic vision. This volume contains three of Pinter's most famous plays, including Old Times, which Clive Barnes called "a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have theater"; a television play, Monologue; and a radio piece, Family Voices. Includes: Old Times No Man's Land Betrayal Monologue Family Voices
The Dwarfs by Harold Pinter (Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2015-01-27)
Genre: Drama

“A fascinating work . . . possessing extraordinary power. Masterful.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Brilliant, cranky, and eccentric, and the narrative passages are some of the most thrilling ever written.” —Library Journal “Some of the author’s most enduring themes—notably, sexual jealousy and betrayal—are present. . . . The narration shows traces of writers as various as Joyce and Beckett, e.e. cummings and J.P. Donleavy.” —The Washington Post “The Abbott and Costello meet Samuel Beckett dialogue . . . makes you laugh out loud.” —The Village Voice
Complete Works by Harold Pinter (Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2014-12-02)
Genre: Drama

Along with Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, Harold Pinter holds an undisputed place in the front ranks of contemporary dramatists. In volume two of his collected works, the plays and revue sketches mark a period of transition, as Pinter’s characters and settings become more recognizably realistic, in contrast to the absurdist atmosphere of his earlier work. The Caretaker, which first brought him fame on both sides of the Atlantic, was called “a play of strangely compelling beauty and passion” by Howard Taubman of The New York Times. An essay by Pinter, “Writing for Myself,” introduces this collection. Includes: The Caretaker The Dwarfs The Collection The Lover Night School Trouble in the Works The Black and White Request Stop Last to Go Special Offer “Writing for Myself”
Moonlight by Harold Pinter (Grove Press, 1994)
Genre: Drama

In a drama set in two bedrooms and a dark space, a man on his deathbed reviews his life, loves, and betrayals with his wife, while his two conspiratorial and emotionless sons sit in the shadows rationalizing their love-hate relationship with their now dying father and their inability to take steps to end the estrangement.
Death etc. by Harold Pinter (Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2015-01-27)
Genre: Literary Collections

A collection of political essays, poetry, and dramatic works by the Nobel Prize–winning playwright and author of Betrayal. Throughout his life, playwright, poet, and political activist Harold Pinter has consistently cast light on the hypocrisy of power and those who would defend the status quo for the sake of their own security and comfort. Awarded the Wilfred Owen Prize in 2004 for his poetry condemning US military intervention in Iraq, Mr. Pinter has succeeded in combining his artistry with his political activism. Death etc. brings together Pinter’s most poignant and especially relevant writings in response to war. From chilling psychological portraits of those who commit atrocities in the name of a higher power, to essays on the state-sponsored terrorism of present-day regimes, to solemn hymns commemorating the faceless masses that perish unrecognized, Mr. Pinter’s writings are as essential to the preservation of open debate as to our awareness of personal involvement in the fate of our global community.
Old Times by Harold Pinter (Grove Press, 1971)
Genre: Drama

A middle-aged couple entertain a friend they have not seen for two decades in Pinter's play first presented in London's West End in June, 1971.
Trilogy by Jon Fosse (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023-01-31)
Genre: Fiction

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 Trilogy is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council’s Prize for Literature in 2015.
The Other Name by Jon Fosse (Septology, 2020-04-07)
Genre: Fiction

"Fosse's fusing of the commonplace and the existential, together with his dramatic forays into the past, make for a relentlessly consuming work: alreadySeptology feels momentous."--The Guardian The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Ã...sleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in BjÃ ̧rgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in BjÃ ̧rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers--two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life. Written in hypnotic prose that shifts between the first and third person,The Other Name calls into question concrete notions around subjectivity and the self. What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Through flashbacks, Fosse deftly explores the convergences and divergences in the lives of both Asles, slowly building towards a decisive encounter between them both. A writer at the zenith of his career, withThe Other Name, the first two volumes in hisSeptology, Fosse presents us with an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition that will endure as his masterpiece.
Septology by Jon Fosse (Giramondo Publishing, 2022-10-01)
Genre: Fiction

The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, published in one volume for the first time. What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers – two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions about death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness. Jon Fosse’s Septology is a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic and utterly unique. ‘Jon Fosse is a major European writer.’ – Karl Ove Knausgaard ‘The Beckett of the twenty-first century.’ – Le Monde ‘An extraordinary seven-novel sequence about an old man’s recursive reckoning with the braided realities of God, art, identity, family life and human life itself…the culminating project of an already major career.’ – Randy Boyagoda, New York Times ‘A major work of Scandinavian fiction …Fosse has written a strange mystical moebius strip of a novel, in which an artist struggles with faith and loneliness, and watches himself, or versions of himself, fall away into the lower depths.’ – Hari Kunzru ‘I hesitate to compare the experience of reading these works to the act of meditation. But that is the closest I can come to describing how something in the critical self is shed in the process of reading Fosse, only to be replaced by something more primal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of words moving on a page.’ – Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books
Morning & Evening by Jon Fosse (Dalkey Archive Press, 2024-01-09)
Genre: Fiction

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.