In this incandescent novel Frances Raval gives superbly vivid, powerful and at times wickedly funny portrayals of the foundations of Freudian psychoanalysis as it emerged in the 1890s and thus by implication of the inner life of the whole epoch. The Story of Dora is a richly ironic and imaginative reconstruction of the famous Freudian case-history, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. The novel shows Freud’s handling of the case to be one of his most scandalous impositions of theory ont...

Les peuples balkaniques cultivent parfois dans leur folklore une tristesse voulue, intense, qui paradoxalement, leur apporte le plus grand bonheur. C’est le “sevdah” - équivalent de la « saudade » portugaise : la nostalgie du pays qu’on a quitté, de la jeunesse envolée, de rêves à demi oubliés, de tout ce qu’on a aimé et qui, peut-être, n’a jamais été. Ce regret est vécu comme le point fort de leur identité, le bonheur le plus triste qui soit.

Le « Sud �...

'De manera magistral, Francisco Pérez Maricevich aclara el papel del poeta como observador calificado, lazo entre espacios tiempos diferentes: ‘Y los observo, entonces, como si fueran ellos/ figuraciones sucesivas/que al trascender el tiempo/redibujaran, mágicos,/el pasado llevándolo al futuro’. Eso quizá sea la tarea más importante del aedo paraguayo: jugar el papel de historiador de la memoria. Los dioses le han obsequiado esta capacidad de ver cuando los demás no ven. Como lo esc...

Alain Saint-Saëns' riveting and enlightening novel, first part of a trilogy, explores his French ancestors' legendary past from the end of XVth Century and the time of King Francis I til the end of XVIIth Century under Louis XIV's reign.

'Ce que je sais de mes origines se perd dans la poussière des siècles. Passionné dès l’enfance par l’histoire de ma famille, j’ai volontiers prêté une oreille attentive aux discours nostalgiques et autres radotages éculés d’aïeux en fin de...

Peoples of South-Eastern Europe sometimes nurture through their music and poetry a feeling of intense longing that brings them at the same time sadness and happiness. Sevdah, the Balkan version of the famed Portuguese saudade, encompasses nostalgia for a lost homeland, youthful dreams, past loves, or even for things that never were. This autobiographical narrative of a Macedonian woman recreates her beloved South through childhood memories, family portraits and legends, and the history of an...

'Emilia Olivera, a real and humble woman, a native of the Central American country of Belize, becomes, thanks to Víctor

Manuel Durán’s literary talent, the true embodiment of the Belizean woman, a proud unbreakable spirit, a demanding

mother and a loyal companion, who was able, with grace and determination, to face both joyful events and harsh tragedies

during her long life in Progreso, a village in the Corozal District in the country of Belize.

Emilia, mother of Víctor Manuel Durán an...

When Roser Caminals was ten years old her family moved to a neighborhood of grid-patterned streets lined with trees and broad sidewalks; but it is the old city, with its potpourri of blind lottery peddlers, sailors from all over the world walking up from the harbor, fishmongers, tourists, door-to-door salesmen, and a variety shady characters thrown into the mix that finds its way into her fiction. The rich texture of the street life Roser Caminals witnessed during her formative years remains ...