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by Arno Schmidt
Translated by John E. Woods

Among Schmidt enthusiasts, scholars, and fans, the two novels stand in sharp contrast to one another, the first belonging to his early, more realistic phase, and the second introducing his later, more experimental phase. But the hairs are not worth splitting. Taking place in 1954, (more...)

Nobodaddy's Children [Buy Direct]

by Arno Schmidt
Translated by John E. Woods
Original title: Nobodaddy's Kinder

This trilogy of novels traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the dreary life of a government worker who escapes the banality of war by researching the exploits of a deserter from the Na (more...)

Geometric Regional Novel [Buy Direct]

by Gert Jonke
Translated by Johannes Vazulik
Original title: Geometrischer Heimatroman

Some Thing Black [Buy Direct]

by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
Original title: Quelque chose noir

In 1983 Jacques Roubaud's wife Alix Cleo died at the age of 31 of a pulmonary embolism. The grief-stricken author responded with one brief poem ("Nothing"), then fell silent for thirty months. In subsequent years, Roubaud—poet, novelist, mathematician—composed a series of prose po (more...)

Duras [Buy Direct]

by Alain Vircondelet
Translated by Thomas Buckley
Original title: Duras: Biographie

This is the first full-length biography of one of the best-known and most influential French writers of our time, as celebrated for her films (Hiroshima Mon Amour) as for her novels ( The Ravishing of Lol Stein, The Lover). It takes D uras from colonial Indochina (where she w (more...)

Thank You for Not Reading [Buy Direct]

by Dubravka Ugresic
Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
Original title: Zabranjeno citanje

Theory of Prose [Buy Direct]

by Viktor Shklovsky
Translated by Benjamin Sher
Original title: O teorii prozy

Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian Formalists in the 1930s, and the unavailab (more...)

French Fiction Revisited [Buy Direct]

by Leon S. Roudiez

The most interesting French ficti on since World War II is also the most revolutionary, exploring new narrative techniques and incorporating challenging new ideas in aesthetics, politics, psychoanalysis, gender, linguistics, and philosophy. This fiction looks strange and forbidding to Ame (more...)

Fables of the Novel [Buy Direct]

by Warren Motte

Forms and Substances in the Arts [Buy Direct]

by Etienne Gilson
Translated by Salvator Attanasio
Original title: Matières et formes

An engaging companion piece to The Arts of the Beautiful, this volume advances Etienne Gilsons theories about art as a process of focusing on the substances available to an artist. The basis for his argument is grounded in the distinction between arts concerned with the creation of (more...)

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