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After the Circus: A Novel by Patrick Modiano
26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano's writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author takes up one of his most compelling themes: a love aff ...Show more
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears by Laszlo F. Foldenyi; Ottilie Mulzet (trans.)
44.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history László F. Földényi is a writer who is learned in reference, taste, and judgment, and entertaining in style. Taking a place in the long tradition of public intellectual and cultural criticism, his work reson ...Show more
Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes
37.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic
Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes
46.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly lim ...Show more
Graveyard Clay: Cre na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
A brilliant new translation of O Cadhain's modern Irish literature masterpiece, meant to spark debate and comparison with Alan Titley's Dirty Dust, now with bonus materials on its history, reception, interpretations, adaptations, and more In critical opinion and popular polls, Mairtin O Cadhain's Gravey ...Show more
I Live in the Slums by Can Can Xue; Karen Gernant (Translator); Zeping Chen (Translator)
41.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue's stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structu ...Show more
Journeying by Claudio Magris; Anne Milano Appel (Translator)
39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | 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)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | 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
Look at the Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer (Translator)
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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
39.95 AUD
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
Melancholy by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time." Foldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melan ...Show more
Museum Visits by Eric Chevillard; Daniel Levin Becker (Translator); Daniel Medin (Editor)
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Category: No Category | 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