Eva Voldřichová Beránková Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Examines European and American literatures from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing not only the trends common to the whole cultural region but also the differences manifested in particular national literatures. The book is divided into two parts: the first explores the transformation of paradigms in literatur and literacy criticism; the second offers portraits of individual writers, figures and myth from the period broadly understood as the "epoch of symbolism"

Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own complacency.

Een wegens moord ter dood veroordeelde jonge man hervindt zichzelf in het aanvaarden van een zekerheid zonder hoop.