Read Ferdydurke

Dinner guests who cannot leave the room, for weeks; Bunuel in Mexico.

Bruno Schulz's Drohobycz turned into myth; the stories a Gestapo officer's bullet ended.

Stories inside stories in the Sierra Morena; the Polish cult film Scorsese and Coppola restored.

A director with nothing to say makes a film about that; Fellini's masterpiece.

Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect and his family adjusts; Kafka in sixty pages.

Josef K. is arrested for something nobody will name; the word Kafkaesque comes from here.

K. tries to reach the authorities in a snowbound village and never does; unfinished, mid-sentence.

A novel you can read in two orders; Cortazar's Paris and Buenos Aires.