When Phillip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange.
Maurice Couturier Books
Maurice Couturier was a distinguished literary scholar and translator whose work primarily focused on modern English and American literature. He was renowned for his in-depth exploration of Vladimir Nabokov's oeuvre, to which he dedicated his pioneering doctoral thesis and numerous publications. Couturier's approach was characterized by an interdisciplinary scope, blending literary theory with critical analysis and contributing to the rehabilitation of the author as a central figure in critical discourse. Beyond his academic career, which spanned universities in both France and the United States, he also engaged in translation and played an active role in publishing prestigious literary editions.
Lolita
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta- the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? 'A masterpiece. One of the great works of art of our age' Independent
Out of the shelter
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Traveling from England, where rationing is in effect, Timothy Young visits Heidelberg where his sister Kath, who works for the American army, enjoys a life of plenty.
Paradise News
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation paradise; it is to visit Jack’s dying, estranged sister. The hand of fate and family tensions frustrate the planned reunion, however. And surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, girls looking for Mr Right, a freeloading anthropologist, and assorted tourists all determinedly pursuing their humdrum visions of paradise, Bernard finds Waikiki more like purgatory. Until, that is, he stumbles upon something he had given up hope of finding – the astonishing possibility of love…