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22 produkter
Erasers
Häftad, 2018
139 kr
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Only UK edition in printAfter a failed attempt on his life by an unknown terrorist cell, Professor Daniel Dupont decides to fake his own death. The government authorities, believing that the attack is part of a series of political assassinations, send Wallas, a recently promoted special …
Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
Häftad, 2018
126 kr
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Only edition in printThis volume contains Tristan Tzara’s famous manifestos, which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement and models for Breton’s Surrealist manifestos. Art for Tzara was both deadly serious and a game, and the playfulness of his …
Garden Square
Häftad, 2018
126 kr
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Only UK edition in printA young woman, who works as a maid for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench, she starts talking to a stranger, a travelling salesman, and their conversation gradually turns into an exchange of confidences, as she speaks of …
Impressions of Africa
Häftad, 2018
136 kr
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Only edition in printThe first of Roussel’s two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose …
Regicide
Häftad, 2018
126 kr
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Only UK edition in printSet in an unspecified island kingdom, A Regicide tells the story of the statistician Boris who, after the electoral victory of the Church party in the country’s elections, decides to assassinate the King on the day he is to visit the factory where he is employed. As the …
Voyeur
Häftad, 2018
126 kr
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Only UK edition in printWhen Mathias, a travelling watch salesman, returns after many years to the island of his birth, a young girl is found dead on the rocks. As Mathias makes an increasingly tense recapitulation of his movements on the day of the event, tiny details slowly and inexorably …
Collected Poems
Introduction by Hugh MacDiarmid
Häftad, 2025
176 kr
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The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature.The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect – from Skail Wind, first published in 1941, to the verse collections …
Cross and the Arrow
Av Albert Maltz
Häftad, 2024
130 kr
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Only edition in printDespite being decorated with a German Service Cross, Willi Wegler is inwardly sickened by both Hitler’s genocidal war and the complicity of his fellow citizens in Third Reich brutalities. Wracked by guilt, he suddenly betrays his country in a profound gesture of protest and …
Tropisms
Häftad, 2018
124 kr
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Only UK edition in printA series of sketches and observations of daily life – a crowd gathering in front of shop windows, an old man talking to his grandchild about death, a professor lecturing about Proust and Rimbaud, a woman concealing her disdain at a family gathering – Nathalie Sarraute’s …
Philosophy of Samuel Beckett
Av John Calder
Häftad, 2002
133 kr
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Increasingly Samuel Beckett's writing is seen as the culmination of the great literature of the twentieth century – succeeding the work of Proust, Joyce and Kafka. Beckett is a writer whose relevance to his time and use of poetic imagery can be compared to Shakespeare's in the late Renaissance.John …
Jealousy
Häftad, 2017
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126 kr
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Only UK edition in printIn his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principal preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation, and the action is seen through the eyes of a narrator who never appears in person, never speaks and …
Moderato Cantabile
Häftad, 2017
124 kr
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Only UK edition in printA distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a café, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder, and drinking through the …
Cain's Book
Häftad, 2017
126 kr
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Only edition in printWritten in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain’s Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky’s life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip through hell. Probably the most famous novel about drug addiction and the hazards …
Young Adam
Häftad, 2018
113 kr
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Only edition in printSet on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British post-war novelists. Trocchi’s narrator is an outsider, a drifter working for the skipper of a barge. Together they discover a young woman’s corpse …
Flanders Road
Av Claude Simon
Häftad, 2018
126 kr
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Only edition in printDuring the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities – a distant relative, an orderly and a jockey who had an affair with his wife – remember …
Eclipse – Concrete Poems
Av Alan Riddell
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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Only UK edition in printIn this volume of typographical (or “concrete”) poems, Alan Riddell weaves words and the very letters they’re made of into shapes and patterns that heighten or, in some cases, completely undermine the professed message of the pieces.When Eclipse was first published in 1972, …
Politics and Literature
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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Only UK edition in printFirst published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre’s most enduring concerns as a philosopher: politics and literature. With regard to the former, they develop the notion of the intellectual not only as an …
Babel
Av Alan Burns
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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Babel, Alan Burns’s fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define – shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of conversation and anecdote, which both heighten and undermine meaning, and characterized by …
Heretic of Soana
Häftad, 2020
144 kr
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Only edition in printWhen the young priest Francesco Vela becomes the incumbent of the parish of Soana, a small village in Ticino, he is tasked with bringing back into the Catholic fold a family of shepherds, the Scarabotas, who are accused of indecency and incest. Yet, after visiting them among …
Selected Poems: Éluard
Dual-language Edition
Av Paul Éluard
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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Only edition in printThe poetry of Eluard is that of the real world and its natural sensations and feelings. The main themes that stand out are love, brotherhood and kindness. His imagery is characterized by its appeal to the senses and the importance of concrete objects and of everyday things. In …
The Eyewitness Report
An unpublished work by Albert Maltz
Av Albert Maltz
Inbunden, 2025
207 kr
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Only edition in printThe scene opens in Moscow in August 1968. Forty-two-year-old Daniil Petrovich Barkov is a prizewinning writer whose life is at a crossroads. His wife is slowly dying in a hospital bed, and his faith in his country is shaken by the anti-democratic invasion of Czechoslovakia by …
Hometown and Other Poems
Inbunden, 2025
179 kr
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Only edition in printDivided into fifty-seven sections, ‘Hometown’ is an extraordinary work in the long tradition of the Great American Poem. The author’s own compositions, interspersed with quotations from other famous writers and excerpts from historical documents and articles, including an old …
