Bohumil Mužík Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

E' il rendiconto psicologico di un delitto. Un giovane, che è stato espulso dall'Università e vive in condizioni di estrema indigenza, suggestionato, per leggerezza e instabilità di concezioni, da alcune strane idee non concrete che sono nell'aria, si è improvvisamente risolto a uscire dalla brutta situazione. Ha deciso di uccidere una vecchia che presta denaro a usura... (Dostoevskij)

A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard Howard Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as a young man with his Cleopatra, he has gone on to establish himself as “the chosen painter of Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls.” And though his hair may be white, he remains a handsome, vigorous, and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon. Olivier’s lover is Anne, the Countess de Guilleroy, the wife of a busy politician. Their relationship is long-standing, close, almost conjugal. The countess’s daughter is Annette, and she is the spitting image of her mother in her lovely youth. Having finished her schooling, Annette is returning to Paris. Her parents have put together an excellent match. Everything is as it should be—until the painter and countess are each seized by an agonizing suspicion, like death. . . . In its devastating depiction of the treacherous nature of love, Like Death is more than the equal of Swann’s Way. Richard Howard’s new translation brings out all the penetration and poetry of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction.

Druhá kniha řady Nové ruské knihovny. OSUDY a postavy z míru, války a revoluce, charakterisované tak životně, že se na nás Rusko z této knihy dívá jako z tisíce velkých očí. V těchto vzpomínkách, v nichž se umění Gorkého obrozuje a pročisťuje až k průzračné jasnosti, jest plno sympatie i humoru, kteréžto dvě vlastnosti vyznačují nejzralejší období tvorby u každého autora.

Úvodní dva díly, šestidílného románu o studentu Raskolnikovi, jeho filozofii, která je odrazem jeho sociálních potíží, ale i odrazem doby.

Pátá a šestá část třísvazkového románu. Závěr románu, Raskolnikov se přiznává ke zločinu, přijímá trest, jeho milá s ním sdílí jeho osud, a dochází ke katarzi.

Voor wie wat huiverig is om direct aan zijn verzamelde werken te beginnen, biedt de onvervalste 'whodunnit' Drama op de jacht , die Anton P. Tsjechov (1860-1904) op zijn 24ste schreef, een onbekommerde kennismaking met zijn werk. In Anne Stoffels prachtige vertaling (uit onze vermaarde Russische Bibliotheek) treden onder meer op: een verteller, een politieman, een ontaarde graaf die zijn geld erdoor jaagt en drinkt, een beeldschoon meisje, wonend in het bos van de graaf, met haar vader die houtvester is en krankzinnig, en een uiterst onsympathieke Pool die de graaf grote bedragen afhandig maakt. Door de kracht waarmee Tsjechov hartstocht, dronkenschap, beestachtigheid en valsheid op papier zet, en door de verrassende ontknoping, mag Drama op de jacht uniek heten in de detectiveliteratuur.