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Castle to Castle
Häftad, 1997
245 kr
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With an undercurrent of sensual excitement, C?line paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of society and the human condition.
North
Av Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis C?line
Häftad, 1996
204 kr
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In this novel, Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan) offers us a vivid chronicle of a desperate man's frantic flight from France in the final months of World War II.
London Bridge
Av Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis-Ferdinand C Line
Häftad, 1995
200 kr
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In this widely acclaimed translation, Dominic DiBernardi expertly captures C?line's trademark style of prose which has served as inspiration to such American writers as Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller.
Edouard Leve: Works
Av Edouard Leve
Häftad, 2014
191 kr
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"Originally published in French as Oeuvres by P.O.L diteur, Paris, 2002."
Oulipo
A Primer of Potential Literature
Av Warren Motte, Warren F Motte Jr
Häftad, 2015
244 kr
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A remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Founded in Paris in 1960, the Oulipo views imaginative …
Hortense in Exile
Häftad, 2000
146 kr
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-- First paperback edition.-- Hortense is in trouble again. Set to marry the Premier Prince Presumptive, our heroine finds herself caught in the middle of the plot of Hamlet, playing the unfortunate role of Ophelia. Can she escape in time? Brimming with brilliant wordplay, mathematical equations, …
Roberte Ce Soir: And the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Häftad, 2002
191 kr
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Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary Frech fiction. Like the works of Georges Bataille, and those of the Marquis de Sade before him, Klossowski's fiction explores the connections between the mind and the body through a lens of …
Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart
Häftad, 2006
204 kr
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Composed of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, and partly a response to the poetry of Raymond Queneau, this collection explores Jacques Roubaud’s many poetic modes. He skips from the strict form of the sonnet to the freedom of prose poetry without abandoning …
Do Not Touch
Häftad, 2009
159 kr
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When French mafioso Oscar Lux saved Clovis Baccara from killing himself, he became the boss and something of a mentor to Clovis. Twenty years later, it is no surprise that Clovis is named best man when Oscar decides to settle down and get out of the business. Fulfilling his role as second-hand man, …
As You Were Saying
American Writers Respond to Their French Contemporaries
Av Fabrice Rozie, Esther Allen m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
190 kr
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'As You Were Saying' pairs some of America's best writers with their French contemporaries, to show the importance of considering - and responding to - the world beyond one's borders.
Hotel Crystal
Häftad, 2008
159 kr
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At some Parisian lost-and-found, a mysterious manuscript scribbled onto stray bits of hotel stationary and postcards and stuffed into an abandoned briefcase comes into the hands of an “editor,” who claims to faithfully transcribe and assemble the random texts. On the face of it, these consist of …
Western
Häftad, 2009
167 kr
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A pioneering French woman turns her eye toward the most classically male American genre.
Savage
Häftad, 2009
156 kr
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Based on the life of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, Jacques Jouet's "Savage" compels the reader to ask whether it is the primitive or the civilized man who is savage. At the height of the Belle ?poque, an eccentric young clothing designer searches for inspiration and identity as an artist …
Hoppla! 1 2 3
Häftad, 2009
159 kr
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The tale is simple, if grim: a disenfranchised teenage boy from the housing projects on the outskirts of Paris rapes and murders the manager of the supermarket where his mother works. But Gerard Gavarry is a writer who knows how literary inventiveness can shed new light on a serious subject, and …
Wert and the Life Without End
Häftad, 2011
197 kr
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In some kind of institution, maybe a hospital or rehabilitation center, we are introduced to Wert, a disturbed, traumatized man still suffering the horrors of his experience as a soldier fighting in an unidentified conflict. A patient or prisoner, Wert writes down his memories of the war; his …
Demolishing Nisard
Häftad, 2011
172 kr
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New work from the acclaimed author of "The Crab Nebula" and "Palafox."
Mathematics:
Häftad, 2012
204 kr
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Longtime Oulipo member Jacques Roubaud's homage to one of the great passions of his life: mathematics...
Sisters
Häftad, 2013
181 kr
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Mathilde Lewly--a female painter at the dawn of the twentieth century--has achieved notoriety among the Parisian avant-garde. She and her husband, also a talented young artist, pursue their separate visions side by side in a Clichy atelier, galvanized by the artistic ferment that surrounds them. …
Origin Unknown
Häftad, 2013
168 kr
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A word-crazed monologue in the mind of a man flying to his war-torn native country for the first time in years, "Without Origin" explores the ways a family, homeland, friendship, or even a favorite author, can come to overwhelm one's individuality.
Narcisse on a Tightrope
Häftad, 2021
191 kr
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For seventeen years, Narcisse Dièze, chronic sufferer of a mysterious condition called"cerebral rheumatism"; has lived in the protective confines of a psychiatric hospital. Therehe has been attended by a contingent of nurses, for whom he has obligingly fathered somewherebetween thirty-five and one …
Savannah
Av Jean Rolin
Häftad, 2021
160 kr
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Savannah is a starkly tender and intimate recollection by French writer and journalist Jean Rolin of his friendship with British Vogue photographer Kate Barry. Both humorous and insightful, it in many ways serves as the epitaph to her life, which ended in a fall from her fourth-floor apartment in …
Gentlemen Callers
Av Corinne Hoex
Häftad, 2022
187 kr
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Every night when she goes to sleep, a woman dreams of erotic encounters with different men. She dreams of being the sponge squeezed to foaming in a gas station attendant's hand, and of twining her bare skin with a sea lion's thick pelt under the watchful eye of the sea lion trainer. From a gas …
Disappearance of Jim Sullivan
Av Tanguy Viel
Häftad, 2021
111 kr
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"Tanguy Viel's parody/pastiche of the American novel is subtle and experimental; it tells a story at the same time as it implicitly poses questions about the narrative structure it is deploying." —The French ReviewIn The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan, disappearance is both a theme and a stylistic …
Public Reading Followed by Discussion
Häftad, 2021
204 kr
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Who’s really telling this story? That’s the mystery at the heart of Danielle Mémoire’s novel, which opens with a writer on stage at a public reading—a public reading that isn’t one, because she never reads a word, much to the audience’s annoyance. When an audience member finally heckles her, the …
Rigadoon
Häftad, 1997
167 kr
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Completed right before his death in 1961, Rigadoon, the most compassionate of Celine's novels, explores the ravages of war and its aftermath.
Normance
Av Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis C?line
Häftad, 2009
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185 kr
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"Celine's mastery in creating one of the truly cathartic experiences of contemporary literature is indisputable." Saturday Review
Project for a Revolution in New York
Häftad, 2012
167 kr
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Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself—or a foreigner’s nightmare of New York—as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet’s novel turns this urban space into a …
Last Days
Häftad, 1996
143 kr
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The Last Days is Raymond Queneau's autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920s: Vincent Tuquedenne tries to reconcile his love for reading with the sterility of studying as he hopes to study his way out of the petite bourgeoisie to which he belongs. Vincent and his generation are …
Newspaper
Av Edouard Levé
Häftad, 2015
168 kr
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In his second "novel," Newspaper, the acclaimed writer, photographer, and artist Edouard Levé made perhaps his most radical attempt to remove himself from his own work. Made up of fictionalized newspaper articles, arranged according to broad sections—some familiar, some not—Newspaper gives us a …
Odile
Häftad, 1999
133 kr
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First published in France in 1937, this brilliant, moving novel is about the devastating psychological effects of war, about falling in love, about politics subverting human relationships, and about life in Paris during the early 1930s amid intellecturals and artists whose activities range from …
