Bernard Lortholary Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in situations where self-examination is inescapable. FLIGHTS OF LOVE consists of seven stories, all of them weaving around the idea of love - why people are drawn to it and why some run away. Schlink shows us, in turn, love as desire, love as confusion, love as a quick affair, love as a drastic life-changing rebellion, love as a force of habit, love as self-betrayal. The cumulative effect is a book which uses effortlessly beguiling language to examine the universal human desire to find a lasting loving relationship, however thwarted that desire ultimately is.

Een jongeman kijkt terug op de relatie die hij tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog als 15-jarige had met een 36-jarige vrouw met geheimen.

The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K's isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elu

La contrebasse est l'instrument le plus gros, le plus puissant et le plus indispensable de l'orchestre, le plus beau aussi, dit d'abord le contrebassiste. Mais bientôt l'éloge pompeux laisse affleurer les frustrations et les rancoeurs du musicien et de l'homme. Et peu à peu la haine d'abord refoulée de cette encombrante compagne s'exprime, se déchaîne et explose jusqu'à la folie... Ce monologue tragique et drôle, par l'auteur du best-seller Le Parfum, tient l'affiche en Allemagne depuis des années. Interprété à Paris par Jacques Villeret, il a reçu un accueil triomphal.

Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished) is infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of the book.

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.