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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sleep of Memory by Patrick Modiano
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 book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive undersid ...Show more
Snapshots by Claudio Magris; Anne Milano Appel
Category: Biography | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A collection of brief, but intimate meditations on life and culture ranging from controversial matters to private moments The internationally acclaimed author Claudio Magris offers a collection of brief "snapshots" reflecting on life and culture from 1999 to 2013 through his very personal lens. Some pie ...Show more