German literature

The Castle

“No one can really be called a stranger in the Castle; we are all the Castle’s people.” The Castle follows K., a land surveyor who arrives in a […]

Russian literature

Mary

“Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures…” Chapter […]

American literature

The Sun Also Rises

“You are all a lost generation.”— Gertrude Stein (epigraph) Chapter 1: Paris and Jake Barnes The novel opens with Jake Barnes, an American expatriate and journalist living in […]