Seagull Books London Ltd - Böcker

A man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some modest evidence of past joys. Javed, who has returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won't speak of what he witnessed in his time away. In her dreams, an old woman boards a train full of dead a...

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Poetic prose meditations translated superbly into English. ? Austrian poet Friederike Mayrocker is widely considered one of the most important European poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The last book of hers to be published during...

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A timely book addressing the burning concerns of our times, from the excesses of capitalism to the global crisis of leadership. ¿ There is widespread agreement, across a voluble political spectrum and around the planet, that we live in times of in...

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When Life in Peactime opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is sixty-nine years old. He's disillusioned and angry but morbidly attached to life. As he makes a day-long trip home from his job in Sharm el Sheik reconstructing the coral reefs...

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The first and exhaustive biography of twentieth-century leftist philosopher Andre Gorz. Recognized as one of the most lucid and innovative critics of contemporary capitalism, Andre Gorz (1923-2007) was known for asking fundamental questions regard...

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Pyotr Pavlensky turns state violence into his medium-now, in his own words, he reveals the theory behind the fire. Pyotr Pavlensky's Subject-Object Art Theory is both a manifesto and a method-an incendiary redefinition of what art can and should b...

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Poetry that serves as an evocative portrayal of diverse landscapes and cultures. ¿ In these otherworldly poetry sequences, Samira Negrouche reminds us that "all life is movement," where "time passes through me / beings pass through me / they are m...

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An unveiling of the presence of captivating figures and creatures throughout history. In this gripping philosophical and cultural exploration, Teresa Präauer sets out to investigate figures of transformation, transmission, and translation-across l...

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An insightful study of Walter Benjamin, one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, by the Italian philosopher Gianni Carchia. ¿ Name and Image crystalizes Gianni Carchia's lifelong pursuit of the infinite philosophical object...

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This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!" This outcry against the em...

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Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and Nymphs will engage not only the author's devoted fans in philosophy, legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism but also his growing audience among a...

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In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity's true nature. What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like...

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A rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book's title, Self-Portrait in the Studio-a familiar iconographic subject in the history of painting-is intended to be taken literal...

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A lyrical travelogue charting Tomas Espedal's journeys to and ruminations around the world, from his native Norway to Istanbul and beyond. ¿ "Why travel?" asks Tomas Espedal in Tramp, "Why not just stay at home, in your room, in your house, in the...

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Now in paperback, The Shadow of Things to Come¿and its¿catastrophic and carnivalesque dreamscape speak¿out against political rhetoric and the destruction of meaning by government. In an unnamed African nation, the people are subject to a state of ...

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A haunting, multivocal novel full of stories of the lives of women of African descent. ¿ Four women speak. They speak to the same man, who is not there. He is the son of the first, the great-yet-impossible love of the second, the platonic companio...

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A sharp, witty send-up of the literary world, set in the world of book publishing-a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamt of (or dreaded) getting published.¿ Cyril Cordouan is the beleaguered editor at Fulmen, a distinguished publishing house kno...

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Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Laszlo Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the ...

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In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Van, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama-in which nearly everyone dies-unfurls. But in ...

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A classic work of political theory by a major twentieth-century figure of the Italian Left. ¿ Italian political thinker Mario Tronti is most famous for being the author of Workers and Capital, which became the central theoretical formulation of It...

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An exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major contemporary artist. ¿ Over the past several years, renowned South African artist William Kentridge has made a collection of particular phrases and sentences that have called out to him f...

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Tarkovsky for me is the greatest, wrote Ingmar Bergman. Andrey Tarkovsky only made seven films, but all are celebrated for its striking visual images, quietly patient dramatic structures, and visionary symbolism.Time within Time is both a diary an...

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When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp - a centre of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation when ...

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Winner of the 2019 Palestine Book Awards Translation Prize. This lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory detail yet troubled by the porousness of memory. It tells the story...

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The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's¿Privy Portrait¿has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he has no work or prospects, he's blind in one eye, and he must move into a horribly tiny apartment with his only posses...

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An exploration of what it means when we say something is beautiful. Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, François Jullien challenges the assumptions underlying our commonly agreed-upon definition of what is b...

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This anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, and displacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turkey, a country li...

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In "The Tale of the Talking Face", eminent Indian artist K.G. Subramanyan offers a stinging parable of democracy gone wrong by narrating and illustrating the story of a princess whose autocratic rule brought nothing but suffering to her people, de...

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The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa's "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays" explore themes of memory and identity. Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she creates - they con...

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The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who reside elsewhere. The Brussels bureaucracy that sets many of the EU's policies feels remote to its citizens, yet the ...

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