Do You Wanna Dance?
Discover the “Do You Wanna Dance?” curated reading list—featuring literary fiction by Mikhail Lermontov, Thomas Pynchon, and William T. Vollmann. Explore books on movement, rhythm, and the dance of life, from The Crying of Lot 49 to A Hero of Our Time.
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Fathers and Crows
by William T. Vollmann
The second volume of a saga that chronicles the relations between native Americans and their colonizers begins four hundred years ago in the Great Lakes region, where Jesuit priests martyr themselves to save the disease-ridden villages of the Huron.--Amazon.com.
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The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
Oedipa Maas finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.
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A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov
In its adventurous happenings–its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues–A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and ’30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin–the archetypal Russian antihero–Lermontov’s novel looks forward to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible. This edition includes a Translator’s Foreword by Vladimir Nabokov, who translated the novel in collaboration with his son, Dmitri Nabokov.
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The Counterfeiters
by Andre Gide
A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.
