An immortal masterpiece, the largest and greatest literary work in the history of Italian literature, one of the hundred greatest books in human history, and the most printed, published and translated book after the holy heavenly books in the world... it is the “Divine Comedy.” A unique symbolic journey through otherworldly worlds undertaken by the greatest writers of the centuries Dante Alighieri, a symbol of sinful life, leads him to "Hell" and "Purgatory", then "Beatrice", a symbol of faith, leads him towards "Paradise"... It is a long and turbulent journey towards knowledge and faith, filled with symbols that have given it ambiguity, complexity, and brilliance in the eyes of readers, critics, and interpreters. Transferring all of humanity from a state of misery and misery to a state of happiness and contentment is one of the goals of our book, as stated by its author, by diving into the depths of history, recounting rich life experiences, and classifying people according to their deeds in their world, between hell, purgatory, and paradise, and through what the work contains. Philosophy, wisdom, morals and emotion. The strength of the structure, the strength of the style, and the interconnectedness of meanings are features that uniquely characterize this epic.
A train traveling with a single passenger is forced to stop for an entire hour, so the traveler leaves it and walks to waste time, but the paths lead him to a coal mine, then to a gypsy wedding, and finally to a place where five wolves were trapped, to carry out a plan targeting the village and its residents.
In an interesting plot, this novel pulls you in and carries you away without leaving you any chance to escape, as you follow the trail of this mysterious strange man and wonder: Who is he? A saint who came to save the village and its residents? Or just a mentally ill man running away with his madness? Or a philosopher? Or all of these together?
With linguistic and psychological intensity, Elena Alexeeva writes a novel that stands on the border between dystopia, magical realism, and absurdity, drawing inspiration from all of them without drowning in any of them. Therefore, in the year following its publication, it deserved the 2019 Novel of the Year Award and the National Book Center’s Feather Award.
A university professor sees a painting in a museum in which a person very similar to his father is drawn, and he feels deeply that the resemblance does not stop at the symmetry of the two faces alone. A frightening intuition awakens within him, and he tries to meet a relative of the descendants of the man in the painting.
The novel's hero enters the maze of dream and wakefulness, and the maze of memory with its ramifications, evoking stories in which the real is mixed with the imaginary, and little by little we find that we are faced with several narratives, each one of which brings us into a new loss, until we ourselves become walking on the border between dream and wakefulness.
In “The Dark Bank,” José María Merino writes about the other or the companion, and about the past and memory, in a wonderful labyrinthine structure, within a vast time that lies on the margins of hours and pulses, and offers us pure pleasure that stimulates our imagination and senses.
