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The Third Walpurgis Night: The Complete Text by Karl Kraus; Fred Bridgham (Translator); Edward Timms (Translator); Marjorie Perloff (Foreword by)
Category: History | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The first complete English translation of a far-seeing polemic, written in 1933 by the preeminent German-language satirist, unmasking the Nazi seizure of power "[A] drop-dead analysis of the rhetorical barbarities of the Hitler cult."--Bill Marx, Arts Fuse Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's ...Show more
The Valley of the Fallen by Carlos Rojas
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Acclaimed translator Edith Grossman brings to English-language readers Rojas's imaginative vision of Francisco de Goya and the reverberations of his art in Fascist Spain This historical novel by one of Spain's most celebrated authors weaves a tale of disparate time periods: the early years of the ninete ...Show more
The Walnut Mansion by Janja (TRN) Stephen M. (TRN); Pavetic-dickey Miljenko; Dickey Jergovic
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
The poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical verse from the Jewish tradition by Peter Cole
Category: Spirituality | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry from the world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition, MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole prov ...Show more
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's most personal novel - and arguably his most iconoclas ...Show more
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water by António Lobo Antunes; Jeff Love
Category: Classics | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A novel about the horrors of war and its aftermath from one of Europe's most brilliant authors Award-winning author Ant nio Lobo Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola with a vigorous account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing on his own bitter experience as a soldier st ...Show more
WARTIME NOTEBOOKS FRANCE 1940-1944 by BOBKOWSKI ANDRZEJ
Category: Biography | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, p ...Show more
WINTER MYTHOLOGIES & ABBOTS by MICHON PIERRE
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Michon's exquisite short narratives transport us to the heart of the Middle Ages as witnesses to the double-edged power of belief This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully crafted works by the internationally acclaimed French author Pierre Michon. Populated by distant and l ...Show more