Read Hopscotch

The Library of Babel, the Garden of Forking Paths and Pierre Menard; Borges in seventeen stories.

A point that contains every other point, in a Buenos Aires cellar; Borges' second collection.

A universe of hexagonal galleries holding every possible 410-page book, nearly all of them gibberish.

Catherine Deneuve as a doctor's wife working afternoons in a brothel; Bunuel's dream logic.

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

Julien Sorel climbs through Restoration France by seduction; Stendhal's ambition novel.

The madeleine and the first volume of In Search of Lost Time; start here.

Expatriates drink through Paris and Pamplona; Hemingway's lost generation.