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The Dregs of the Day by Máirtín Ó Cadhain; Alan Titley
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A riveting English translation the Irish classic tale of heartache, death, and loneliness by the beloved author of The Dirty Dust The final published work by the renowned M irt n Cadhain, this novella follows a widower as he attempts to plan his wife's funeral arrangements without money, direction, or w ...Show more
The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language by Norman Manea
Category: Culture | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left his native Romania in 1986 to escape the Ceausescu regime. He now lives in New York. In this selection of essays, he explores the language and psyche of the exiled writer. Among pieces on the cultural-political ...Show more
The Hatred of Music by Pascal Quignard; Matthew Amos (Translator); Fredrik Rönnbäck (Translator)
Category: Film | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
How does a man who once adored music beyond measure come to revile it as a form of tyranny?Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s ...Show more
The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir by Norman Manea
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
At the center of The Hooligan's Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea's book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dre ...Show more
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell by Carlos Rojas
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
In Carlos Rojas' imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theatre in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over an ...Show more
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell by Carlos Rojas
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
In Carlos Rojas' imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theatre in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over an ...Show more
The Lair by Norman Manea
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Set in New York City in the months preceding 9/11, Norman Manea's novel introduces us to the protagonist who, like the author himself, is a Romanian professor in exile and who struggles with loneliness, dislocation, the desire to hide. Yet his difficulties and dilemmas are uniquely his own, and his ques ...Show more
The Last Days of Mankind : The Complete Text by Edward (TRN) Fred (TRN); Timms Karl; Bridgham Kraus
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Kraus's iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. ...Show more
The Last Lover by Can Xue
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
In Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other’s fantasies, carrying on conversations that are “forever guessing games.” Their journeys reveal the deepest realms ...Show more
The Origin of the World by Pierre Michon
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon's luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a town resident, a woman of seductive beauty and singular ...Show more
The Orphanage - A Novel by Serhiy Zhadan; Reilly Costigan-Humes (Translator); Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine "A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under siege. . . . With a poet's sense of lyricism . . . [Zhadan] unblinkingly reveals a country's devastation and its people's passionate determinatio ...Show more
The Republic of Letters by Marc Fumaroli; Lara Vergnaud
Category: Reference | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined "republic" of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enligh ...Show more