Browse by category
Diary by GOMBROWICZ WITOLD
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: World Republic of Letters Ser.
Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his "Diary" with one of literature's most memorable openings: Monday - Me; Tuesday - Me; Wednesday - Me; and, Thursday - ...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
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)
41.95 AUD
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)
26.95 AUD
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
Museum Visits by Eric Chevillard; Daniel Levin Becker (Translator); Daniel Medin (Editor)
26.95 AUD
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
Scraps: The Rules of the Game by Michel Leiris
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | 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
Sleep of Memory by Patrick Modiano
32.99 AUD
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
Sleep of Memory by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti
26.99 AUD
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
Snapshots by Claudio Magris; Anne Milano Appel
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | 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