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El Marmol

by Cesar Aira

Cover: Kostadin Kokalanov

Leviathan. Part 2. Of a Chris-tian Common-wealth. Of the Kingdom of Darkness

by Thomas Hobbes

Cover: Milena Valnarova

Arcadia

by Tom Stoppard

Cover: Kiril Zlatkov

Leviathan. Part 1. Of Man. Of Common-wealth

by Thomas Hobbes

Cover: Milena Valnarova

The Legend of the Holy Drinker

by Joseph Roth

Cover: Damyan Damyanov

Mom and me and mom

by Maya Angelou

Cover: Viara Boyadjieva

УОЛТ

ДЖАК

УИTМАНж и в о т ъ т

иприключенията

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Превод Стефан Радев

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle

by Walt Whitman

Cover: Kiril Zlatkov

Larger than Life

by Dino Buzzati

Cover: Kiril Zlatkov

Chimera

by John Barth

Cover: Boris Pramatarov

The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati

Cover: Kiril Zlatkov

Zeno’s Conscience

by Italo Svevo

Cover: Milena Valnarova

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

Cover: Ina Bachvarova, Vladimir Vencharski

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“Life and Adventures of Jack Engle” is a classic rags-to-riches orphan’s story about a corrupt lawyer, Mr Covert, who tries to trick his ward Martha out of her inher-itance. Jack, who works for Covert, sets out to save his fellow orphan and in the process discovers his fate is tied up with hers. In true Dickensian style, Whitman appears to settle old scores in the book: the writer’s father was also swindled by a New York lawyer. “Jack Engle” was first published anonymously in serial form in the New York Sun-day Dispatch newspaper from March 14 to April 18, 1852. It was advertised in The New York Times as a “Rich Revelation” and an “Auto-Biography”.It was unknown and not republished until in 2017 in the academic journal Walt Whitman Quarterly Review after it was rediscovered by University of Houston graduate student Zachary Turpin as a work by Whitman.

The author:

Walter “Walt” Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection “Leaves of Grass”, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle

Walt Whitman

Published: 27.03.2018 Cover: Kiril ZlatkovTranslated by: Stefan RadevLength: 144 pagesSize: 13,5x21 смCover: paperbackPrice: 12 BGN

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“Larger than life” tells the story of the scientist Ermanno Ismani, a “Professor of electronics in the University of X”, who is promised extensive financial reward to sign up for a secret project no one seems to know anything about. He agrees and becomes entangled with a huge electronic machine capable of reproducing all the functions of the human brain, equipped with all five senses and able to enter the highest spheres of human thought. And it is programmed with a woman’s personality traits.

The author:

Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) is an Italian journalist, dramatist, short-story writer and novelist, internationally known for his fiction and plays. He perceived himself as a painter who works as a journalist. “Larger than life” is considered the first Italian sci-fi novel. But LOVE is the main theme of the novel.

Larger Than Life

Dino Buzzati

Published: 27.03.2018Cover: Kiril ZlatkovTranslated by: Huban StoynovLength: 144 pagesSize: 13,5x21 смCover: paperbackPrice: 12 BGN

УОЛТ

ДЖАК

УИTМАНж и в о т ъ т

иприключенията

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Превод Стефан Радев

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“The Legend of the Holy Drinker” is the last novel written by Joseph Roth and one could find auto-biography elements in it because just as the protagonist, the author leaves this world after a suicidal drinking spree in Paris. Roth dies desper-ate after Austria is annexed by the Third Reich, when he loses all hope that his world – the world of a multinational monarchy, could return. His novella “The Legend of the Holy Drinker” (1939) chronicles the attempts made by an alcoholic vagrant to regain his dignity and honor a debt.

The author:

Joseph Roth (1894 - 1939) is and Austrian journalist and writer, whose works are among the peaks of the European literature. He was born into a Jewish family and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg in East Galicia, part of the eastern-most reaches of what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire and is now Ukraine. Roth’s last years were difficult. He moved from hotel to hotel, drinking heavily, and becoming increasingly anxious about money and the future. Despite suf-fering from chronic alcoholism, he remained prolific until his premature death in Paris in 1939.

The Legend of the Holy Drinker

Joseph Roth

Published: 10.12.2017 Cover: Damyan DamyanovTranslated by: Anna DimovaLength: 320 pagesSize: 13,5x21 смCover: paperbackPrice: 14 BGN

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Mom & Me & Mom (2013) is the seventh and final book in author Maya Angelou’s series of autobiographies. The book was published shortly before Mother’s Day and Angelou’s 85th birthday. It focuses, for the first time in her books, on An-gelou’s relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter. The book explains Baxter’s be-havior, especially Baxter’s abandonment of Angelou and Angelou’s older brother when they were young children. The book also chronicles Angelou’s reunion and reconciliation with Baxter.

The author:

Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) is one of the most powerful figures of the civil rights activism and the fight for freedom and equal rights. Author of 7 autobiographies, 14 poetry books 3 screenplays, she is a role model for Oprah Winfrey, a close friend of Barbara Streisand, a fighter for civil rights and an inspiration for millions of people. Her autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” received a Pulitzer Prize nomination and in 1993 Angelou received the Grammy for her poem “On the Pulse of Morning”, that she read at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton.

Mom and me and mom

Maya Angelou

Published: 5.12.2017 Cover: Viara BoyadjievaTranslated by: Angelina AleksandrovaLength: 176 pagesSize: 13,5x21 смCover: paperbackPrice: 12 BGN

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The action in “El Marmol” is rolling with the speed of a marble ball among the secrets of Buenos Aires and finds it’s protagonists in common places like a Chi-nese supermarket as well as the open space. The most trivial places are in fact cosmic and you never know who will turn out to be an alien. Aira’s world is strange, surreal, held together by its own logic. For the translator in Bulgarian - Neva Micheva, “El Marmol” is as much a fairy tale, as it is science fiction and very realistic satire. In the writer’s own words “this little novel had to be told from the position of a tired aging man, who is being sent on an unpredictable adventure in the depths of the everyday life”. The author:

Cesar Aira (1949) was born in the Argentinian city of Coronel Pringles but lives and writes in one of the world’s big metropolises, Buenos Aires. Maybe that’s why he efortlessly combines the big and the small: he makes important themes seem like a child’s game; the number of books he wrote is close to 90 but rarely longer than 90 pages per book; his fame is of an undergrown icon but he’s often in the talks for a Nobel prize in literature.

El Marmol

Cesar Aira

Published: 13.10.2017 Cover: Kostadin KokalanovTranslated by: Neva MichevaLength: 144 pagesSize: 13х20 смCover: paperbackPrice: 12 BGN

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360 years after its creation, “Leviathan” is still in the list of mandatory works of literature in the most prestigious universities of the world. That’s because this book depicts the evolution from medieval to modern thinking in Great Britain. Even today, this impressive work can prepare the young man to the impact of the real world. It creates fundamental knowledge about the men, society and common wealth. Even after all these years, some of the ideas are compelling and others are decisive for the develpment of a critical mind.

The author:

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) lives during some of the most turbulent years in England - the civil war and the beheading of King Charles I; the government of Oliver Cromwell and the restoration of the Stuarts. Loyal monarchist and sup-porter of the reign of an absolut sovereign, Hobbes follows the family of William Cavendish when they leave England and settle in France. During his exhile he’s the mathematical instructor to the young Charles, Prince of Wales. In 1651 he pub-lished his most important work – “Leviathan” and that deprives him of living in his motherland for a long time.

LeviathanPart 1Part 2Thomas Hobbes

Published: 12.05.2017 г.Cover: : Milena ValnarovaTranslated by: Rusi RusevLength: 320 + 288 pagesSize: 16,5x23,5 смCover: paperbackPrice: 13 BGN, 15 BGN

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“Arcadia” takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth cen-turies, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries - romantic, scientific, literary - that engage the minds and hearts of characters whose passions and lives intersect across scientific planes and centuries, it is Stoppard’s richest, most ravishing com-edy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and emotion.

The author:

Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright whose work is marked by verbal brilliance, ingenious action, and structural dexterity. Stoppard’s father was work-ing in Singapore in 1938/39. After the Japanese invasion, his father stayed on and was killed, but Stoppard’s mother and her two sons escaped to India, where in 1946 she married a British officer, Kenneth Stoppard. Soon afterward the family went to live in England. Stoppard considers “Arcadia” as the peak of his work. Among his screenplays are those for “Empire of the Sun” (1987), “Despair” (1978), and “Brazil” (1985), as well as for a film version (1990) of “Rosencrantz and Guil-denstern Are Dead” that he also directed. In 1999 the screenplay for “Shakespeare in Love” (1998), cowritten by Stoppard and Marc Norman, won an Academy Award.

Arcadia

Tom Stoppard

Published: 15.09.2017 Cover: Kiril ZlatkovTranslated by: Iglika VassilevaLength: 192 pagesSize: 13,5x21 смCover: paperbackPrice: 12 BGN

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“Chimera” is a novel of three parts, intersecting like the three animals of the mythical chimera. It tells three of the great myths of all time revisited by a mod-ern master.Dunyazade, Scheherazade’s kid sister, holds the destiny of herself and the prince who holds her captive.Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon Medusa, finds himself at forty bat-tling for simple self-respect like any common mortal.Bellerophon, once a hero for taming the winged horse Pegasus, must wrestle with a contentment that only leaves him wretched.

The author:

John Barth (1930) is an American writer best known for novels that combine philosophical depth and complexity with biting satire and boisterous, frequently bawdy humour. Much of Barth’s writing is concerned with the seeming impossi-bility of choosing the right action in a world that has no absolute values.For his novel “Chimera” he won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1972 which he shared with “Augustus” by John Edward Williams

Chimera

John Barth

Published: 1.06.2017 Cover: Boris PramatarovTranslated by: Nadejda RozovaLength: 352 pagesSize: 11x17 смCover: paperbackPrice: 22 BGN

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A young officer, Giovanni Drogo, is sent to guard the Bastiani Fortress, an old, unmaintained border fortress. Overlooking a desolate Tartar desert, he spends his career waiting for the barbarian horde rumored to live beyond the desert. Without noticing, Drogo finds that in his watch over the fort he has let years and decades pass and that, while his old friends in the city have had children, mar-ried, and lived full lives, he has come away with nothing except solidarity with his fellow soldiers in their long, patient vigil.“The Tartar Steppe” is a powerful and ironic tale of garrison troops at a frontier military post, poised in expectancy for an enemy who never comes and unable to go forward or retreat.

The author:

Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) is an Italian journalist, dramatist, short-story writer and novelist, internationally known for his fiction and plays. Buzzati began his career on the Milan daily Corriere della Sera in 1928. He is compared to Kafka because of the surrealism, symbolism, and absurdity that suffused all of his writing. Though influenced by Kafka, Buzzati has a devastating skill and a detached sort of irony and humour of his own.

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

Published: 23.02.2017 Cover: Kiril ZlatkovTranslated by: Huban StoynovLength: 256 pagesCover: paperbackSize: 13,5x21 смPrice: 12 BGN

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Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in question belongs to Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who is writing his confessions at the behest of his psychiatrist. Here are Zeno’s interminable attempts to quit smoking, his courtship of the beautiful yet unresponsive Ada, his unexpected, and unexpectedly happy marriage to Ada’s homely sister Augus-ta, and his affair with a shrill-voiced aspiring singer. Relating these misadventures with wry wit and a perspicacity at once unblinking and compassionate, “Zeno’s Conscience” is a miracle of psychological realism

The author:

Italo Zvevo (1861-1928) is an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Sve-vo was the model for Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Joyce’s seminal novel “Ulysses”. Svevo was considered a pioneer of the Psychological novel in Italy. Though only recognised for his literary achievements towards the end of his life, Svevo is celebrated as one of Italy’s finest writers, particularly in his home city of Trieste, and has a statue in front of the Museum of Natural History erected in his honour.

Zeno’s Conscience

Italo Zvevo

Published: 05.12.2016 Cover: Milena ValnarovaTranslated by: Violeta DaskalovaLength: 432 pagesCover: paperbackSize: 13x20 смPrice: 14 BGN

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The House on Mango Street covers a year in the life of Esperanza, a Chicana (Mexican-American girl), who is about twelve years old when the novel begins. During the year, she moves with her family into a house on Mango Street, in the center of a crowded Latino neighborhood in Chicago - a city where many of the poor areas are racially segregated.Told in a series of vignettes, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up, inventing for herself who and what she will become.

The author:

Sandra Cisneros (1954) is an American writer and poet of Mexican origin. One of seven children and the only daughter, she has written extensively about the Latina experience in the United States. Cisneros is best known for “The House on Mango Street” (1984), which tells the story of a young Latina woman coming of age in Chicago. The novel has sold more than two million copies. Cisneros has received numerous awards for her work, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and the Texas Medal of the Arts Award in 2003. In September 2016, President Barack Obama presented Cisneros with a National Medal of Arts.

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

Published: 18.10.2016 Cover: Ina Bachvarova, Vladimir VencharskiTranslated by: Stefan RusinovLength: 128 pagesCover: paperbackSize: 13,5х21 смPrice: 10 BGN