This issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction presents newSlovak fiction in translation, congregating such significant writers as Dusan Dusek, Brano Hochel, Michal Hvorecky, J?n Johanides, Daniela
Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth about Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Toussaint’s acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the
A composer who has already given up composing—because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres!—the man becomes increasingly fixated on capturing a mysterious, eerie, distant sound, which h
Manuel Puig's masterful and ironic "detective novel" concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens--Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rit
For the first time in English, a contemporary and friend of Virginia Woolf and Stefan Zweig gives us the definitive portrait of a woman lost on the margins of modern life.
With Flann O'Brien now widely acknowledged as a subversive genius of early post-modernism, Flore Coulouma gives the "question of language" a central position in his literary identity
How do writers and filmmakers use repetition? It is useful when accenting an idea, but, in this original and thought-provoking book, Bruce F. Kawin argues that it serves a more important function as a
Following in the steps of the skillful story telling traditions of Scheherazade and Borges, Osdany Morales leads the reader along a meandering path of tales connected through the narrator’s expedition
Dust tells the story of a librarian terrified by the decay of the world around him. With the help of his wife, the librarian wages a futile war against the dust that coats his surroundings until one d
Infinitely multiplied by the blare of radios, TVs and record players in San Juan, Macho Camacho's guaracha weaves its way across the city and through the lives of one family on a single day: Senator V
Originally published in 1926, King Goshawk and the Birds is the first installment of O’Duffy’s Cuanduine trilogy, which also included The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street (1928) and Asses
The year is 1959, one of the darkest periods of Romania’s communist regime. Political prisoner Bruno Matei, a puppeteer of Italian ancestry, has been released from jail a broken man, suffering from am
The protagonist has Egyptian roots going back many generations: on her father’s side, to the expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492 when seven brothers of the Kastil family, from Castilla, landed on t
Irish writing, we are told, is currently enjoying a renaissance. Strange, original talents are blossoming, wielding styles and perspectives as variant as the inspirations they bring to bear on their w
Following a band of thieves fleeing the Louvre with a stolen artwork, Maramures moves from Paris to Vienna to Budapest before arriving in Maramures itself, said to be at the very center of Europe. In
Marianne is an adulteress tortured by guilt and by the harassment of a legal investigation. In an effort to escape from the pressures and judgments of the world, she withdraws into the privacy of read
Beginning as a road novel reuniting Donovan and Tom Lee, old friends from their college days, Christine Montalbetti's novel quickly becomes a playfully unpredictable exploration of American culture. R
California is still the world's biggest hideout. The only thing more western is the Pacific Ocean, where, if the Big One happens, California might find a home at the bottom.One of those hiding out is
Life is often experienced as a continuum fragmented by moments of intense feeling or excitement. In Cut Up On Copacabana, three sets of stories?Travel Notes, Boxing Rings, and Schoolboy Rites of Passa
