Fitzcarraldo Editions - Böcker

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjrgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and Asle are doppelgngers two versions of the same perso...

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The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic to...

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With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the ...

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This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present ...

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Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants above all to wander, but also to arrive at symm...

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Perennially on the outside, Brian has led a solitary life; he works at Camden Council, lunches every day at Il Castelletto caf and then returns to his small flat on Kentish Town Road. It is an existence carefully crafted to avoid disturbance and y...

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Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoirs masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mothers final days after she is hospitalized following a fall. Though a devout Catholic, her faith is subsumed by he...

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Are we ever truly lost in the internet age? The Observable Universe is a moving, genre-defying memoir of a woman reckoning with the loss of her parents, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyperconnected world. W...

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What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brookers mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundin...

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'Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.' In Rave, cult German novelist Rainald Goetz takes a headlong dive into nineties techno culture. From the cathartic release on the dance floor to the intense conversations in corners of nightclubs and the ...

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In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the scandalous girl of her youth. When she is with him, she replays scenes she has already lived ...

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My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon. Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her ...

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Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, dea...

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No art has been denounced as often as poetry. Its even bemoaned by poets: I, too, dislike it, wrote Marianne Moore. Many more people agree they hate poetry, Ben Lerner writes, than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely orga...

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In an unnamed coastal city home to many refugees, a mother of a displaced family searches for her child, calling her name as she wanders along the cliffside road where her daughter used to work. She searches and searches until, devoid of hope and ...

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Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and ...

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In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto ...

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The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic to...

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An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggss This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Tak...

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Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In the title work, a loosely autobiographical n...

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In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the cole de la Cause Freudiennes annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for whom he is a mentally ill person suffering from gen...

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Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their nei...

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Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asl...

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In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto ...

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A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memo...

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'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don't want to be protectors, for those who would like to be...

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Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Every night they roam the streets, partying, riotin...

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Edinburgh, 2014. Two writer friends, Damaris and Oliver Pablo, escape London, the city that killed his brother. They spend their days trying to get to the library, bickering over their tanking bitcoin, failing to write or resist the sadness. Then ...

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Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories spiralling from real events that bleed together reportage and the authors rich and rigorous imagination. These crnicas a genre unique to L...

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Its early morning and theres a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully shell sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form is the story of two people composing a day together. It is a day of movements and impro...

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