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No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions Book.
• Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapab... Lees meer

The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories

Gustaw Herling

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Noonday Cemetery & Other Stories , selected by Herling himself shortly before his death in 2000, is a collection of thirteen brilliant stories spa... Lees meer

Proper Name and Other Stories

Bernadette Mayer

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions Paperback; 824
• Proper Name collects for the first time the inimitable stories of Bernadette Mayer--"one of the most original writers of her generation" ( The Washing... Lees meer

Confucius to Cummings

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions Paperbook
• This anthology is Ezra Pound's own choice of the poetry of various ages and cultures--ranging from his translations of the Confucian Odes up to E. E. ... Lees meer

George Oppen

Robert Creeley, George Oppen

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions Paperbook Original
• The Selected Poems is a unique selection of Oppen's work from the seven books he published during his lifetime. Edited by one of our most respected co... 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

A Cup of Rage

Raduan Nassar

• Paperback | Engels
• A pair of lovers--a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in Brazil--spend the night together. The next day they proceed ... 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

Splay Anthem

Nathaniel Mackey

• Paperback | Engels
• In the cosmology of the Dogon of West Africa, the Andoumboulou are progenitor spirits, and the song of the Andoumboulou is a song addressed to the spi... Lees meer

Ground Work

Robert J Bertholf, James Maynard

• Paperback | Engels
• Robert Duncan's Groundwork , the American poet's unparalleled final masterpiece, is now available in a single volume. I am speaking now of the Dream i... 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

The Happy Birthday of Death

Gregory Corso

• Paperback | Engels
• It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much ... Lees meer

The Cardboard House

Martín Adán

• Paperback | Engels
• Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate. The nove... Lees meer

Blue Fasa

Nathaniel Mackey

• Paperback | Engels
• Nathaniel Mackey's sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the New Yorker has described as the "mythological conception" and "descr... 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

In the Rose of Time

Robert Fitzgerald

• Paperback | Engels
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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

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

New Directions 29

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Prose and Poetry
• This anthology series draws on authors from countries across the world and features selections of the finest new prose and poetry. 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

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

Letter to the Americans

Jean Cocteau

• Paperback | Engels
• Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential-and issues Lees meer

Invisibility Is the Art of Survival

Edwin Brock

• Paperback | Engels
• Invisibility Is the Art of Survival marks the first appearance in this country, in book form, of the work of Edwin Brock. Born in London in 1927, Broc... 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