Somerset Maugham Theatre examines the entwined lives and layered identities of performers navigating ambition, love, and self-definition against the dynamic stage of British theatre in the 1930s. Main themes include public and private masks, creative transformation,...
Paul Auster The New York Trilogy designates a trio of interlaced stories by Paul Auster, widely credited with transforming the detective form into a labyrinthine exploration of self and narrative. Main themes span identity, language breakdown, metafiction, urban...
Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf presents Harry Haller’s psychological odyssey through alienation, divided identity, and the quest for meaning. Main themes include duality of the self, modern estrangement, transformation, interplay of art and reality, as well as spiritual...
John Banville The Book of Evidence describes a psychological exploration of crime and self-perception through the eyes of a privileged narrator. Main themes include unreliable narration, guilt and morality, identity formation, artistic creation, and the boundaries...
Elias Canetti Auto-da-Fe is a modernist work by Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, renowned for its psychological intensity, linguistic power, and innovative narrative structure. Major themes span intellectual isolation, obsession, identity dissolution, paranoia, and the...
Albertine Sarrazin Astragal stands as a vivid chronicle of escape, autonomy, and marginal existence, drawn from the intense lived experience of its author. Core themes include bodily vulnerability, agency, forbidden desire, power dynamics, and the search for...
