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Fire and Knowledge : Fiction and Essays
Peter Nadas
Hardcover - $47.95
A superb collection of short stories, essays, and literary criticism from the great Hungarian writer
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The U.S. publication of "A Book of Memories "in 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist, an artist whom critics ...
Oberiu : An Anthology of Russian Absurdism
Eugene Ostashevsky
Paperback - $36.95
It was a movement so artfully anarchic, and so quickly suppressed, that readers only began to discover its strange and singular brilliance three decades after it was extinguished-and then only in "samizdat and emigre publications. Some called it the ...
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories
Hermann Palsson
Paperback - $23.95
They date from the thirteenth century and fall into two distinct groups. Hrafnkel's Saga, Thorstein the Staff-Struck, and Ale Hood are set in the pastoral society of native Iceland, the homely touch and stark realism giving the incidents a strong fee ...
Stories from the City of God
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Hardcover - $38.95
Stories from the City of God collects legendary Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966. In these pieces, we see the machinations of the creative mind in consideration of the character of Rome after Worl ...
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa
Paperback - $23.95
The Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [though] some critics would even leave off that last qualifying phrase" and "one of the most appealing European modernists, equal ...
The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais
Francois Rabelais
Paperback - $84.95
"A tour de force. . . . There is no doubt in my mind that, like his translation of Montaigne, [Frame's] translation of Rabelais will become the standard translation in English."--Philippe Desan, University of Chicago
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Paperback - $18.95
Written between 1903 and 1908 to a student who had sent Rilke his poems for evaluation, these ten letters--among the most famous and beloved of this century--reveal the deeply felt ideas about life and art that shaped the great poet's work. Two-color ...