Absurdist Humor

Hilarious, profound, and achingly true to life, Jonas Karlsson's new novel explores the true nature of happiness through the eyes of a hero you won't soon forget. A passionate film buff, our hero's life revolves around his part-time job at a video store, the company of a few precious friends, and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and a movie in his treasured, small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency, everything will tumble into madness.

Was hat es mit dem "malproperen Paket" auf sich, welches beim Einchecken, so gar nicht nach dem Besitztum des "Ästheten" Professor Kaspar Moritz Mauzfies aussehend, bereits in der Doppelkabine auf dem Tisch wartet? Nicht die einzige Überraschung, welche die Schiffspassage auf der "Bocognano" nach Korsika bereithält. Die Reise wird Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts für den Protagonisten zu einem absurd-surreal-psychedelischen Trip...

What happens when a cop decides to take on a lion? Nothing good, I'll tell you that! Officer Bazzar just wants to get on with his life, but there's a lion who won't leave him alone! How is he ever going to get rid of him? Buy now and find out!

At the turn of the 20th century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village in search of his hero and unwitting mentor, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who is rumored to have disappeared into the South American jungle - "not lost, mind you, but retired." Jacov's narcissistic preoccupation with melancholy consumes him, and as he desperately recounts the myth of his journey to his trusted but ailing scribe, hope for an encounter with the lost philosopher who holds the key to Jacov's obsession seems increasingly unlikely.

A petty thief finds himself stuck acting as the butler to a seemingly idyllic home and becomes deeply and disastrously involved with his unknowing host family.

Lennart Evert Bengtsson är en man i sina bästa år, tycker han själv i alla fall. En dag råkar han ut för en olyckshändelse som ger upphov till egendomliga drömmar. Många har drömmar men Lennart är mannen som förverkligar dem! Han tar chansen och genomför en av sina märkliga idéer en idé som tar honom till världens alla hörn ... "Jag hade ett leende på läpparna genom hela läsningen och den lämnade mig med en "feel good"-känsla!"

Tras un proceso de selección en apariencia sencillo, Diego Pirita comienza a trabajar como recepcionista en un hotel de paso. Las primeras instrucciones que recibe dejan una cosa en claro: sin importar lo que ocurra, una de las habitaciones debe mantenerse siempre desocupada para recibir a un cliente distinguido. Podría llegar en los próximos minutos o podría llegar dentro de muchos años. Lo único seguro es que no avisará.

Skipper Matthews has an obsession - burgers. It’s all he ever eats. And not just any burgers, Burger Flip burgers - the most famous burger franchise in the world. For the last 11 years, Skip has only eaten at Burger Flip. He even has a life-sized figure of Harry B, the Burger Flip mascot in his living room, not to mention walls of memorabilia and vintage Funny Meal toys. On the heels of his girlfriend Sophia leaving him over his passion and his mom threatening to send him to a shrink, he finally has a choice to make.

Leading sacred cows to the slaughter, peeling the pun for its extra daughter, crafting sinister grams and sly fun, Bob Macaulay reveals his skill in distilling Scottish humours, in whimsical surgical tellings for listeners’ drop-in pleasure. Prankster, funster, language doctor, he re-stages Scotland in satire. A surgeon of his native tongue, as spoken by the living and the never were, he offers a forensic dozen herein, counting the missing organs, of course.

"'Io non so com'è la gente!' soleva ripetere don Marchino per lo meno una ventina di volte al giorno, insaccandosi nelle spalle e aprendo le mani a ventaglio davanti al petto, con gli angoli della bocca contratti in giù: 'Io non so com'è la gente!'".

"Benedizione" inizia così, con le parole di Don Marchino, parroco di campagna che sembra vivere in un mondo tutto suo, completamente indifferente a tutto quello che lo circonda. Ancora una volta Pirandello ci regala un piccolo grande gioiello, una novella che che ci mette di fronte all'assurdità della vita e della morte.

Tre racconti fra i più conosciuti di Calvino. Divertenti e ironici tutti, ma pregni di elementi di riflessione sulle moderne idiosincrasie, tic e tabù. Con L'ultimo canale del 1984 la televisione e la confusione fra realtà ed apparenza entrano decisamente da protagonisti nella letteratura italiana.