Literature Books

Un roman tendre et érudit sur un bibliophile, une orpheline, les livres et la bonté active.

Musset transforme la désillusion romantique en récit d’amour, de maladie morale et de génération perdue.

芥川晩年の不安、幻視、都市感覚、死の予感が凝縮された短篇小説。

Un récit bref et tendu sur maladie, désir, mariage, liberté et vertige moral.

Une satire historique où une nation de pingouins rejoue religion, politique, propriété et modernité.

Une tragédie racinienne du pouvoir naissant de Néron, entre amour, jalousie et tyrannie.

島崎藤村の長編小説。旧家、親族、相続、近代化、個人と家制度の重圧を描く。

徳田秋声の代表的自然主義小説。お島の生、労働、結婚、欲望、独立心を力強く描く。

Pereda’s regional novel of Cantabrian rural life, local speech, land, family, custom, and social change.

Unamuno’s ironic novel of rational education, fatherly experiment, science, love, failure, and existential comedy.

A vivid emigration voyage narrative of Atlantic crossing, shipboard society, class, hope, fear, and Italian diaspora.

A Prague occult classic of the Ghetto, identity, hallucination, Jewish legend, doubles, and mystical terror.

Gautier’s provocative novel of beauty, disguise, desire, gender performance, theatre, and art for art’s sake.

A major French Romantic meditation on solitude, Alpine landscape, melancholy, doubt, and the restless modern self.

A Venetian novella of literary obsession, private papers, manipulation, aging, and the ethics of biography.

A bold imperial adventure about two drifters, a remote kingdom, false divinity, ambition, and catastrophic overreach.

Early Kipling stories of colonial India, sharp social observation, Anglo-Indian speech, ambition, loneliness, and irony.

国木田独歩の短編。青年の会話、理想、貧しさ、食卓、近代的感傷と現実感が交差する。

Lima Barreto’s political satire of parliament, ambition, patronage, journalism, marriage, and the machinery of power.

D’Annunzio’s ambitious poetic cycle of sea, sky, earth, myth, heroism, sensation, music, and Italian modernity.

Daudet’s autobiographical novel of childhood sensitivity, poverty, school life, Paris, family loyalty, and artistic hope.

Father Brown solves paradoxical crimes through moral insight, comic logic, theology, disguise, and human weakness.

A compact American tale of sleep, folklore, revolution, village memory, and the strange cost of returning home.

Personal essays rich in memory, humor, London life, reading, friendship, and gentle melancholy.