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Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories by BOROWSKI TADEUSZ
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny "Borowski's sharp-edged descriptions of life in Nazi concentration camps shatter the limits of even Kafka's most surrea ...Show more
I Live in the Slums by Can Can Xue; Karen Gernant (Translator); Zeping Chen (Translator)
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue's stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structu ...Show more
Invisible Ink - A Novel by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in a "mesmerizing, enigmatic novel" (Publishers Weekly) "Nobel Prize winner Modiano's title smartly ties together the theme, plot, and ambience of his latest book . . . The past overlaps and memories half-emerge in classic Modiano fashion, just as ...Show more
Journeying by Claudio Magris; Anne Milano Appel (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys. A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the ...Show more
La Vida Doble: A Novel by Arturo Fontaine
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point when every choice she confronts is impossible. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, withstanding brutal torture to save her comrades, she must ...Show more
Late Fragments - Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed by Charles Baudelaire; Richard Sieburth (Translator)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "In Richard Sieburth's lucid and precise translation and commentary, Baudelaire has found at long last a proper English voice."--Alberto Manguel While not as well-known as his other works, Charles Ba ...Show more
Late Fragments - Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed by Richard Sieburth (Translator); Charles Baudelaire
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth's learned, elegantly written commentary. He is the perfect guide."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "[These] ...Show more
Little Jewel by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
For long standing admirers of Modiano's luminous writing as well as those readers encountering his work for the first time, Little Jewel will be an exciting discovery. Uniquely told by a young female narrator, Little Jewel is the story of a young woman adrift in Paris, imprisoned in an imperfectly remem ...Show more
Look at the Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer (Translator)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A meditation on the big-box superstore, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux. For half a century, French writer Annie Ernaux has restlessly explored stories and subjects often considered unworthy of artistic reflection. In this exquisite meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the ...Show more
Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue; Annelise Finegan Wasmoen; Eileen Myles
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China todayIn this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community th ...Show more
Melancholy by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time." Foldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melan ...Show more
Museum Visits by Eric Chevillard; Daniel Levin Becker (Translator); Daniel Medin (Editor)
Category: Culture | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first time Éric Chevillard is one of France's leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose erudition and imagination honor the legacy of Swift and V ...Show more