The House of Mourning and Other Stories Serbian Literature Series The eighteenth-century German physicist Georg

The eighteenth-century German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg left behind at the time of his death thousands of fragmentary notes commenting on a dazzling and at the same time puzzling array of subjects

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and at least as philosophically minded as his author: “Everything has suddenly become so transparent that one can’t see through anything anymore

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"Carlos Fuentes in all his books draws tight a tense conjunction of opposites: the sensuously beautiful and the horrifyingly ugly

The House of Mourning and Other Stories Serbian Literature Series The eighteenth-century German physicist GeorgFocusing as always on the downtrodden and the eccentric, the misplaced and the dispossessed, Hogan's stories merge past with present, landscape with mindscape . . . There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of the most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world. Focusing