Kjell Askildsen: Selected Stories Scottish Literature Series and compose music—Raymond Roussel demonstrates

and compose music—Raymond Roussel demonstrates why it is that André Breton termed him "the greatest mesmerizer of modern times

a wicked account of coming of age in a Belgian convent school

Fourteen Small Stories

is set in a twenty-first century Russia

A woman falls into a coma

Kjell Askildsen: Selected Stories Scottish Literature Series and compose music—Raymond Roussel demonstratesWritten in an unadorned style, with flashes of pitch black humor, Kjell Askildsen's devastating stories convey in few words life and thought as they are actually experienced, balanced between despair and hope, memories and expectations. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest Norwegian writers of the twentieth century and among the greatest short story authors of all time. A man and a woman in an isolated house, surrounded by nothing, or nearly