![]() ![]() Through the bureaucratic ocean of papers, there lies Josef K., bored with unanswered arguments.īehind an unapologetic desk, Bartleby sits in silence, preferring nothing.Īs a fearful door opens, Bashmachkin leaves the smothering atmosphere of the office, ready to meet with the others. Students of literature, admirers of Dostoyevsky, and general readers will all be delighted to have this classic work available in this inexpensive but high-quality edition. Characteristic Dostoyevskyan themes of helplessness, victimization, and scandal are beautifully handled here with an artistry that qualifies the story as a small masterpiece. ![]() The latter abuses the former with mounting scorn and brutality as the tale proceeds toward its frightening denouement. In The Double, the protagonist, Golyadkin senior, is persecuted by his double, Golyadkin junior, who resembles him closely in almost every detail. It appeared in 1846 (his second published work) and is by far the most significant of his early stories, not least for its successful, straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. The Double is one of the finest of his shorter works. ![]() While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Dennis DrabelleĬopyright 2006, The Washington Post. When it came to marital mayhem, Chas Addams could swing either way. The book includes droves of cartoons in which it's the wife, not the husband, who's involved in spousicide. In another cartoon, a man goes up to a train-station ticket booth and, while his wife stands obliviously by, asks for "a round-trip and a one-way to Ausable Chasm." Not to worry, though. you wouldn't dare." Perhaps Echo Gorge goes by more than one name. Chas Addams Happily Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of Your Loved One. The caption reads, in ever-diminishing letters, "You wouldn't dare. Among the drawings - many of them previously unpublished - collected in Happily Ever After (Simon & Schuster, $20) are such anti-Valentines as a middle-aged man standing near the edge of Echo Gorge, into which a woman's hat and purse are disappearing after their owner. ![]() I speak of Charles (Chas) Addams, creator of the Addams Family, longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker, and possessor of an inexhaustibly mordant sense of humor. What kind of man would collect medieval armor? Perhaps one who wanted to be insulated from his own creations - men, women and children often on the verge of dispatching one another. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like my abuela would say, que dios nos pille confesados. Was it worth the suffering to bring my colleague and bane of my existence as my fake boyfriend to my sister’s wedding? Or was I better off coming clean and facing the consequences of my panic induced lie? Which left me with a surly and extra large dilemma in my hands. ![]() ![]() And much to my total despair, also right. Right after inserting his nose in my business, calling me delusional, and calling himself my best option. The man whose main occupation was making my blood boil had just offered himself to be my date. But that didn’t mean I was desperate enough to bring the 6’4 blue eyed pain in my ass standing before me.Īaron Blackford. Let alone, someone eager to play along my charade. Or the epitaph on my tombstone, seeing the turn my life had taken in the span of a phone call.įour weeks wasn’t a lot of time to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic–from NYC and all the way to Spain–for a wedding. ![]() That would certainly be tomorrow’s headline in the local newspaper of the small Spanish town I came from. Everyone is invited to come and witness the most magical event of the year. Her family is happy to announce that she will bring her American boyfriend to her sister’s wedding. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Or in other words, a plan that will never work.Ĭatalina Martín, finally, not single. ![]() |