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Barbara Wright: Translation as Art (Scholarly)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press : August 2013

Seller ID: 580613

ISBN-13: 9781564788863

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an English-speaking readership and audience some of the most innovative French literature of the last hundred years: a world without Alfred Jarry's "Ubu," Raymond Queneau's "Zazie," and Robert Pinget's "Monsieur Songe" scarcely bears thinking about. This wonderful collection of texts about and by Barbara Wright--including work by David Bellos, Breon Mitchell, and Nick Wadley, as well as a previously un...
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Man + Dog (British Literature Series)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press : November 2009

Seller ID: 600097

ISBN-13: 9781564785527

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Painter and art historian Nick Wadley-who has curated exhibitions on Kurt Schwitters, Franciszka Themerson, Gaberbocchus Press, and Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi"-here turns his attentive and whimsical eye to one of life's most essential relationships.
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The Living Infinite: A Novel

By: Acevedo, Chantel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Europa Editions : September 2017

Seller ID: 548486

ISBN-13: 9781609454302

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A nineteenth century Spanish princess is determined to publish her tell-all memoir in this "fresh, fast-moving historical fiction from a master storyteller" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After her cloistered childhood at the Spanish court, her youth spent in exile, and a loveless marriage, the Bourbon infanta Eulalia gladly departs Europe for the New World. In the company of Thomas Aragon, a small-town bookseller and the son of her childhood wet nurse, she travels first to a Cuba bubbling with revolutionary fervor, and then to the 1893 Chicago World Fair. As far as the public is concerned,...
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We Think the World of You (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Ackerley, J. R.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: NYRB Classics : March 2011

Seller ID: 718149

ISBN-13: 9781590173954

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as "a fairy tale for adults." Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with a sweetly easygoing nature. When Johnny is sent to prison for committing a petty theft, Frank gets caught up in a struggle with Johnny's wife and parents for access to him. Their struggle finds a strange focus in Johnny's dog--a beautiful but neglected German shepherd named Evie. And it is she,...
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Pitch Dark

By: Adler, Renata

Price: $8.00

Publisher: : July 2016

Seller ID: 805099

ISBN-13: 9781590176146

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers. "What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City, to a small island off the coast of Washington, to a pitch black night in backcountry Ireland. Composed in the style of Renata Adler's celebrated novel Speedboat and displaying her keen journ...
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Speedboat

By: Adler, Renata

Price: $8.00

Publisher: : March 2013

Seller ID: 805102

ISBN-13: 9781590176139

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America. When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late '70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Party guests, t...
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The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

By: Agualusa, Jose Eduardo

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Archipelago : March 2020

Seller ID: 668232

ISBN-13: 9781939810489

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Splitting through the clear waters beside the rainbow hotel, Daniel Benchimol finds a waterproof mango-yellow camera and uncovers the photographed reveries of a famous Mozambican artist, Moira. In this exquisite new novel, Agualusa's reader loses all sense of reality. In The Society of Reluctant Dreamers, Daniel dreams of Julio Cort zar in the form of an ancient giant cedar, his friend Hossi transforming into a dark crow, and most often of the Cotton-Candy-Hair-Woman, Moira, staring right back at him. After emails back-and-forth, Moira and Daniel meet, and Daniel becomes involved in a mysteri...
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To Kill a Serpent in the Shell

By: Akunin, Boris

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press : February 2018

Seller ID: 591591

ISBN-13: 9781628973204

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

To Kill a Serpent in the Shell dramatizes the final year of Tsarevna Sofia's regency, interrogating Russia's history while subtly confronting the Russia of today. The play, both a riddle and a fantasy, depicts the political rivalry between the regent and her lover, Vasili Golitsyn, on the one hand, and the young Tsar Peter on the other.The regency's incipient humanism, espoused in Golitsyn's consideration for the well-being of the Russian people, conflicts with the autocratic leanings of the young Tsar Peter. Boris Akunin shows us a pivotal time in Russian history, immediately preceding the re...
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Götz and Meyer (Serbian Literature)

By: Albahari, David

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press : April 2015

Seller ID: 611080

ISBN-13: 9781628970920

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Jewish schoolteacher tells the story of Wilhelm G?tz and Erwin Meyer in the process of researching the deaths of his relatives during World War II. These two SS officers were assigned to drive a hermetically sealed truck in which concentration-camp prisoners were slowly asphyxiated. Soon this knowledge overwhelms day-to-day life, and the teacher comes to see past and present merge in a heartbreaking moment of remembrance. Among the best and most haunting novels about the Holocaust to emerge in the final years of the twentieth century, G?tz and Meyer is David Albahari's masterpiece.
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Learning Cyrillic: Selected Stories

By: Albahari, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : November 2014

Seller ID: 611078

ISBN-13: 9781628970906

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Learning Cyrillic" presents a selection of fiction by Serbian master David Albahari written since his departure from Europe. In these twenty short stories, written and published in their original language over the past twenty years, Albahari addresses immigrant life--the need to fit into one's adopted homeland--as well as the joys and terrors of refusing to give up one's essential "strangeness" in the face of an alien culture.
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First Book of Grabinoulor (French Literature)

By: Albert-Birot, Pierre

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press : July 2000

Seller ID: 507985

ISBN-13: 9781564782458

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

-- First paperback edition.
-- Formally inventive and utterly joyous, Grabinoulor recounts the fantastic adventures of its light-hearted, satyric, eponymous hero as he visits other planets, time travels, and finds poetry everywhere he goes.
-- Grabinoulor has been praised highly by authors as diverse as Apollinaire, Celine, and Queneau.
-- Albert-Birot founded and edited one of the first avant-garde book reviews, SIC, which published the futurists, the Dadaists, and the Surrealists. Grabinoulor was first published in its pages.
-- First U.S. edition by Dalkey Archive ('87).
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First Book of Grabinoulor (French Literature)

By: Albert-Birot, Pierre

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press : July 2000

Seller ID: 611074

ISBN-13: 9781564782458

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

-- First paperback edition.
-- Formally inventive and utterly joyous, Grabinoulor recounts the fantastic adventures of its light-hearted, satyric, eponymous hero as he visits other planets, time travels, and finds poetry everywhere he goes.
-- Grabinoulor has been praised highly by authors as diverse as Apollinaire, Celine, and Queneau.
-- Albert-Birot founded and edited one of the first avant-garde book reviews, SIC, which published the futurists, the Dadaists, and the Surrealists. Grabinoulor was first published in its pages.
-- First U.S. edition by Dalkey Archive ('87).
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Grabinoulor

By: Albert-Birot, Pierre,Albert, Birot Pierre

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press : March 1987

Seller ID: 560988

ISBN-13: 9780916583187

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Like its author, Grabinoulor has been rediscovered only in the last few decades. Originally published in SIC in 1919 and praised by such writers as Apollinaire, Celine, Max Jacob, and Raymond Queneau, it did not appear in English until 1986. Smart, joyous, playfully philosophical and completely without despair, the novel follows the character Grabinoulor--"the happiest man in the world"--a child-like, satyric, and comical Parisian as he visits other planets, travels through time, and finds poetry wherever he goes.
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Locos: A Comedy of Gestures

By: Alfau, Felipe

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 393953

ISBN-13: 8782764121710

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Purgatorio

By: Alighieri, Dante

Price: $8.50

Publisher: NYRB Classics : September 2021

Seller ID: 805100

ISBN-13: 9781681376059

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy, figuring the poem as a story of psychological struggle and awakening. This is a bilingual edition with illuminating notes from the translator. The Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante's great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one's way in the middle of one's life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of the Divine Comedy, as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pil...
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Old Man and the Bench (Swiss Literature)

By: Allemann, Urs

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press : May 2015

Seller ID: 592911

ISBN-13: 9781628970166

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that reveals what language can do when it serves no purpose but its own proliferation, Swiss provocateur Urs Alleman's "The Old Man and the Bench" is a comedy of mangled verbosity.
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Enigmas of Spring (Brazilian Literature)

By: Almino, Joao

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press : February 2016

Seller ID: 592913

ISBN-13: 9781628971316

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Majnun lives his life online in his grandparents' well-appointed home in the Brazilian capital. No school, no work--just bored in Brasilia. After falling in love with a married woman, however, he flees to Madrid with friends, intent on, well . . . something. Writing a historical novel about medieval Spain? Or perhaps converting to Islam and heading to North Africa? As Majnun floats through the crowds of Catholics, through encounters with legitimate medievalists, through romances, friendships, mosques, and palaces, his vague interests threaten to boil over into violent, even deadly action.
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Free City

By: Almino, Joao

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press : October 2013

Seller ID: 592909

ISBN-13: 9781564789006

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Free City" is master storyteller Joao Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Bras?lia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled--including Aldous Huxley, Fidel Castro, Andre Malraux, John Dos Passos, Elizabeth Bishop, and many others. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with their vested interests, each with new reasons for spinning fictions of their own.
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Telegrams of the Soul

By: Altenberg, Peter

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 770204

ISBN-13: 9780974968087

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

If it be permitted to speak of 'love at first sound, ' then that's what I experienced in my first encounter with this poet of prose. So said Thomas Mann of the work of PeterAltenberg. A virtuoso Fin-de-Si cle Viennese innovator of what he called the telegram style of writing, Altenberg's signature short prose straddles the line between the poetic and the prosaic, fiction and observation, harsh verity and whimsical vignette. Inspired by the prose poems of Charles Baudelaire and the Feuilleton--a light journalistic reflection of his day--Altenberg carved out a spare, strikingly modern aesthetic ...
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Samuel Taylor's Last Night

By: Amato, Joe

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : December 2014

Seller ID: 559509

ISBN-13: 9781628970999

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A failed professor, Samuel Taylor is haunted by the premonition that in attempting to write out of his system the circumstances surrounding his failure, he'll only find himself at the mercy of another system, language itself. Each iteration of his creative effort, whether centered around seemingly mundane activities such as driving or manual labor, or scrutinizing the current cachet of rock climbing, illustrates that while experience might preempt artistic aspiration, those who are wedded to the demands of literary art are at its beck and call. By turns comic and tragic, Samuel Taylor's Last N...
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