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Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters (Paperback)
This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a dose of ether, awakening in a strange hospital, and the ...Show more
Passions by Giacomo Leopardi
Category: Culture | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Revenge-Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don't mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.-from Passions The extraordinary quality of Giacomo Leopardi's writing and the innovative nature of ...Show more
Pedigree: A Memoir by Patrick Modiano
Category: Biography | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters (Hardcover)
In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dr ...Show more
Rimbaud the Son by Pierre Michon
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Rimbaud the Son, widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud by means of a new literary genre: a meditation on the ...Show more
Scene of the Crime - A Novel by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano "Polizzotti's crisp and evocative translation keeps the reader hooked."--Publishers Weekly In his acclaimed semi-autobiographical novella Suspended Sentences, Patrick Modiano recounted a dr ...Show more
Scraps: The Rules of the Game by Michel Leiris
Category: Culture | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis One of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of the twentieth century, Michel Leiris reconceives the au ...Show more
Scratches: The Rules of the Game: Volume 1 by Michel Leiris
Category: Biography | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Claude Levi-Strauss, began the first volume of his autobiographical project at the age of 40. It was the beginning of an endeavor that ultimately required 35 years and three additional ...Show more
Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 by Yves Bonnefoy
Category: Poetry | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Yves Bonnefoy, now 87 years old, has enjoyed during the past two decades perhaps the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid lifework. This volume presents in English and French an inviting array of his recent writings, carefully selected for their literary quality as well as their broad app ...Show more
Selected Poems by Sean O Riordain
Category: Poetry | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
In the mid-twentieth century, a new generation of poets writing in Irish emerged, led by the young Sean O Riordain, among others. O Riordain's work has stood the test of time well, and he continues to engage today's Irish readers and writers. This well-rounded selection of poems brings most of O Riordai ...Show more
Selected Poems by Seán Ó Ríordáin; Frank Sewell (Editor); Frank Sewell
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The first bilingual volume of poems by leading Irish twentieth-century poet Se n R ord in In the mid-twentieth century, a new generation of poets writing in Irish emerged, led by the young Se n R ord in, among others. R ord in's work has stood the test of time well, and he continues to engage today's ...Show more
Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
"Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything...I knew she'd be back", the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmerized bookseller secretly trac ...Show more
Sleep of Memory by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations Patrick Modiano's first novel since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive undersi ...Show more