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After the Circus: A Novel by Patrick Modiano
26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano's writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author takes up one of his most compelling themes: a love aff ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions." In h ...Show more
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears by Laszlo F. Foldenyi; Ottilie Mulzet (trans.)
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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
Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic
Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes
46.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly lim ...Show more
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
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Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters (Paperback)
In this bitterly funny novel a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937, "Ferdydurke" was deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis, Stalinists, and the Polish Communist regim ...Show more
Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories by BOROWSKI TADEUSZ
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Category: History | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny "Borowski's sharp-edged descriptions of life in Nazi concentration camps shatter the limits of even Kafka's most surrea ...Show more
Journeying by Claudio Magris; Anne Milano Appel (Translator)
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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
La Vida Doble: A Novel by Arturo Fontaine
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point when every choice she confronts is impossible. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, withstanding brutal torture to save her comrades, she must ...Show more
Late Fragments - Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed by Charles Baudelaire; Richard Sieburth (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | 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
Little Jewel by Patrick Modiano
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
For long standing admirers of Modiano's luminous writing as well as those readers encountering his work for the first time, Little Jewel will be an exciting discovery. Uniquely told by a young female narrator, Little Jewel is the story of a young woman adrift in Paris, imprisoned in an imperfectly remem ...Show more
Look at the Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer (Translator)
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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