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No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions Book
• The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and t... Lees meer

On the Edge

Rafael Chirbes

• Paperback | Engels
• On the Edge opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain--a town wracked by despair after the burst of ... Lees meer

The Poetry of Thought

George Steiner

• Paperback | Engels
• With his hallmark discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of gr... Lees meer

Piano Stories

Felisberto Hernandez

• Paperback | Engels
• Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernández, "a writer like no other," as Italo Calvino declares... Lees meer

The Sunday of Life

Raymond Queneau

• Paperback | Engels
• The Sunday of Life (Le Dimanche de la vie) , the late Raymond Queneau's tenth novel, was first published in French by Gallimard in 1951 and is now app... Lees meer

Empathy

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

• Paperback | Engels
• Empathy , first published by Station Hill Press in 1989, marked a turning point in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry, her lines lengthening across the pa... Lees meer

The Poetry of Thought

George Steiner

• Hardcover | Engels
• With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner offers The Poetry of Thought as his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of W... Lees meer

Kornel Esti

Deszö Kosztolányi

• Paperback | Engels | Ndp; 1194
• Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger, who breathes... Lees meer

Splay Anthem

Nathaniel Mackey

• Paperback | Engels
• Part antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey's new collection of poems, Splay Anthem , takes the reader to uncharted poetic spaces. D... Lees meer

Colonel Chabert

Honore De Balzac

• Paperback | Engels
• Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after a long convalescence to find his wife remarrie... Lees meer

Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays

Tennessee Williams

• Hardcover | Engels
• Written at various times over the last twenty-five years but never produced, the four scripts included in Tennessee Williams's Stopped Rocking and Oth... Lees meer

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Glass Menagerie marked a crucial turning point in American theater, and forever changed the life of its then unknown author. Williams's elegiac ma... Lees meer

The Mehlis Report

Rabee Jaber

• Paperback | Engels
• A complex thriller, The Mehlis Report introduces English readers to a highly talented Arabic writer. When former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri ... Lees meer

Starting from San Francisco

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• Paperback | Engels
• The long poems of Starting From San Francisco present a new, quieter, more profound aspect of the poet. His original lyricism and caustic humor have b... Lees meer

Nazi Literature in the Americas

Roberto Bolaño

• Paperback | Engels
• Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. When it was published by Seix Barral in 1996, critics ... Lees meer

Selected Poems

Kenneth Rexroth

• Paperback | Engels
• He is also one of the most sophisticated. Like William Carlos Williams, he honed his writing to a controlled and direct language. His intellectual com... Lees meer

War & War

László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes

• Paperback | Engels
• A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War , Laszla K... Lees meer

Women Poets of Japan

• Paperback | Engels
• In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart , Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled represent... Lees meer

Ideograms in China

Henri Michaux, Gustaf Sobin

• Paperback | Engels
• Allen Ginsberg called Michaux a genius, and Jorge Luis Borges said that his work is without equal in the literature of our time. Henri Michaux (1899-1... Lees meer

Satantango

László Krasznahorkai

• Paperback | Engels
• Now in paperback, Satantango , the novel that inspired Béla Tarr's classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated ha... Lees meer

The Rings of Saturn

W G Sebald

• Paperback | Engels
• The Rings of Saturn --with its curious archive of photographs--records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross... Lees meer

An Inventory of Losses

Judith Schalansky

• Paperback | Engels
• Each disparate object described in this book--a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in ... Lees meer

Driven to Abstraction

Rosmarie Waldrop

• Paperback | Engels
• Even in a state of geometrical grace we cannot see time as it is, only as it passes. So the river shows us while softly disfiguring our waterlogged bo... Lees meer

In Cuba

Ernesto Cardenal

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions Books
• Cardenal, In Cuba. The Nicaraguan Poet-Priest muses over Cuba Lees meer