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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
Scratches: The Rules of the Game: Volume 1 by Michel Leiris
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Claude Levi-Strauss, began the first volume of his autobiographical project at the age of 40. It was the beginning of an endeavor that ultimately required 35 years and three additional ...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
Such Fine Boys by Patrick Modiano
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a seri ...Show more
Sundays in August by Patrick Modiano
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper sto ...Show more
The Book of Beginnings by Francois Jullien
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
A capstone work from a renowned philosopher who explores how Western cultural biases may be challenged by classic texts in order to enter another way of thinking How can a person from a Western culture enter into a way of thinking as different as that of the Chinese? Can a person truly escape from his o ...Show more
The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation's horrifying recent history Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing in ...Show more
The Dirty Dust: Cre Na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley's vigorous new translation, full of the brio and guts of O Cadhain's ori ...Show more
The Hatred of Music by Pascal Quignard; Matthew Amos (Translator); Fredrik Rönnbäck (Translator)
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Category: Film & Music | 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