Saksagan
A Domestic Animal part 1
Shimazaki Toson (1871-1943)
Shimazaki Toson began writing as a poet of the new era, but after the Russo-Japanese war, he turned to naturalistic fiction. He...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 5
This condition of lonely self-torment lasted a long while, and increased his exasperation.
And then, one day, he noticed that his healthy foot was growing...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 4
Everything real seemed to disappear; only dimly lighted, vacant space remained, pervaded by the smell of chloroform. He seemed to be in the interior...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 3
“Let my fate go whither it listeth.”
In the darkest corner of a ward, in the bed marked number twenty- four, a farm laborer of...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 2
“Anton, my dear fellow,” the other, said, “well, you understand what I mean; God knows. You may be sure . . . confound it...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 1
Stefan Zeromski (1864-1925)
Zeromski is an intensely dynamic writer. Not so popular as his older contemporary Prus, he excels in the psychological analysis of his...
The Soul of Veere Part 4
Then in those miniature houses there was a gradual animation, and the reappearance of life that seemed to have slept for ages behind closed...
The Soul of Veere Part 3
I was amazed at the sudden opening of the door and the appearance of a handsome young man with strange eyes. He wore a...
The Soul of Veere Part 2
Over there behind the ramparts lies the open sea with its ships, while overhead the arching sky, heavy with clouds, bears down upon the...
The Soul of Veere Part 1
Camille Lemonnier (1844-1913)
Lemonnier has, from the very beginning of his career in 1863, re-mained an interpreter of Belgian life, and particularly of the life...
