An epistolary tale told through a series of seventeen letters by men describes their affairs and desperate entreaties for replies that may never come, in a work that culminates in a single, eighteenth letter by a distant, implacable woman who sympathetically answers their pleas. Original.[...]

Amid the backstreets, brothels and faded hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Portuguese port of Goa, a man searches for his lost friend. Xavier has been missing for a year, and the only clues to his disappearance lie with an overworked doctor, a young prostitute and the leader of a strange religiou[...]

Autoreflexivitat und Metaliteratur sind klingende Worte in der Literaturkritik der letzten Jahre. Was sich dahinter verbirgt, wird jedoch nur angedeutet. Vorliegende Studie untersucht die stete Entwicklung der Autoreflexivitat im Werk Calvinos und ihre Kulmination bei Tabucchi. So kann gezeigt werde[...]

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En före detta polis från DDR som i åratal spionerade på Bertolt Brecht promenerar planlöst runt i Berlin tills han kommer till författarens grav och kan anförtro honom en hemlighet. På en semesterort möter en italiensk officer som i Kosovo utsatts för[...]