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Tales of Tangier - The Complete Short Stories of Mohamed Choukri by Mohamed Choukri; Jonas Elbousty (Translator); Roger Allen (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The complete short stories of acclaimed Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri, translated into English and collected in one volume for the first time Mohamed Choukri's vivid stories invite the reader to wander the streets of Tangier, the ancient coastal crossroads between Europe and Africa, and to meet it ...Show more
The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon; Jonathan Wright (Translator)
Category: History | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Widely praised in the Arab world, Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows an Iraqi academic, Nameer, who meets an antiquarian bookseller, Wadood, in a Baghdad market. Nameer becomes captivated by Wadood's obsession with cataloging everything that the 2003 invasion of their country des ...Show more
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 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 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
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
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
What We Live for, What We Die For - Selected Poems by Serhiy Zhadan; Virlana Tkacz (Translator); Wanda Phipps (Translator); Bob Holman (Foreword by)
Category: Poetry | Series: World Republic of Letters Ser.
An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation "This collection of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan's poems will likely cement his reputation as the unflinching witness to the turbulent social and political trava ...Show more