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  • Self-Portraits
    Self-Portraits
    Dazai, Osamu
    Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai’s best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best—and worst“Art dies the moment it acquires authority.” So said Japan’s quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation’s obsolete aristocracy to its posturi...

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  • Wrong Norma
    Wrong Norma
    Carson, Anne
    Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Carson writes: “Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturd...

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  • Time Without Keys
    Time Without Keys
    Vitale, Ida
    “Like this bird / that waits until the light dies / to begin singing, / I write in darkness, / when nothing shines / and calls out from the earth.”A landmark collection of poetry by one of Latin America’s most important living writersThe celebrated writer Álvaro Mutis envied new readers of Ida Vitale’s poetry: “unexpected pleasures await them.” Time Without Keys: Selected Poems...

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  • Gentle Barbarian, The
    Gentle Barbarian, The
    Hrabal, Bohumil
    The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal’s moving homage to Vladimír Boudník, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The Gentle Barbarian takes us to the heart of Boudník’s creative drive: his gift for infusing the objects and events of everyday life with transc...

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  • This is not Miami
    This is not Miami
    Melchor, Fernanda
    Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories (spiraling from real events), that bleed together reportage and the author’s rich and rigorous imagination.These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them (and...

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  • Caterpillar Dogs, The
    Caterpillar Dogs, The
    Williams, Tennessee
    Seven previously unpublished stories of the Great Depression by America’s poet laureate of the lostThese tales were penned by one Thomas Lanier Williams of Missouri before he became a successful playwright, and yet his voice is unmistakable. The reliable idiosyncrasies and quiet dignity of Williams’s eccentrics are already present in his characters. Consider the diminutive octo...

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  • Flowers of Buffoonery, The
    Flowers of Buffoonery, The
    Dazai, Ozamu
    The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanatorium where Yozo Oba-the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age-is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a light-hearted, even clownish a...

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  • HERmione
    HERmione
    Doolittle, Hilda
    This autobiographical novel by the Imagist poet H. D. (1886–1961) is a rare and hallucinatory treasure. In writing HERmione, H. D. returned to a year in her life that was “peculiarly blighted.” She was in her early twenties—“a disappointment to her father, an odd duckling to her mother, an importunate, overgrown, unincarnated entity that had no place.” She had failed at Bryn Ma...

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  • All Fires the Fire
    All Fires the Fire
    Cortázar, Julio
    A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cortázar (author of Hopscotch and the short story “Blow--Up” ) creates his own mindscapes beyond space and time, where...

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  • Dry Heart, The
    Dry Heart, The
    Ginzburg, Natalia
    Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriageThe Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale?a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness?proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any...

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  • Emissary, The
    Emissary, The
    Tawada, Yoko
    The Emissary is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her “brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness”After suffering a massive, irreparable disaster, Japan cuts itself off from the world. Children are born so weak they can barely walk; the only people with any get-up-and-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with ...

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  • Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
    Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
    Cortázar, Julio
    A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they...

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  • Pereira Maintains
    Pereira Maintains
    Tabucchi, Antonio
    Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira’s apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of his own inhibitions, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism, and this arc is ...

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  • A Brief History of Portable Literature
    A Brief History of Portable Literature
    Vila-Matas, Enrique
    An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short “history” of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of “portable literature.” The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico García Lorca, Man Ra...

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  • Extracting the Stone of Madness Poems 1962-1972
    Extracting the Stone of Madness Poems...
    Pizarnik, Alejandra
    Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude, childhood, madness and death, Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and...

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  • Selected Poems
    Selected Poems
    Garcia Lorca, Federico
    A collection to introduce English readers to the wonders of Lorca's poetryThis selection has been the introduction for generations of American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1937). Lorca is admired the world over for the lyricism, immediacy, and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement w...

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  • Nausea
    Nausea
    Sartre, Jean-Paul
    Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time ? the time of purple suspenders and broken chair...

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  • Rose Tattoo, The
    Rose Tattoo, The
    Williams, Tennessee
    Published as a trade paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the acclaimed playwright John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) and the one-act on which The Rose Tattoo was based.The Rose Tattoo is larger than life?a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama?it is a love letter from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has ever been in love or ever will be. Professional wid...

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  • Nazi Literature in the Americas
    Nazi Literature in the Americas
    Bolaño, Roberto
    Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolaño's books to reach a wide public. When it was published by Seix Barral in 1996, critics in Spain were quick to recognize the arrival of an important new talent. The book presents itself as a biographical dictionary of American writers who flirted with or espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twe...

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  • No Longer Human
    No Longer Human
    Dazai, Osamu
    The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts...

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  • Journey to the End of the Night
    Journey to the End of the Night
    Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
    The dark side of On the Road: instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life.Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of...

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  • Selected Poems
    Selected Poems
    Williams, William Carlos
    Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects the most up-to-date Williams scholarship. In addition to including many more pieces, Tomlinson has organized the whole in chronological order."It isn't what he [the poet] says that counts as a work of art," Williams maintained, "it's what he makes, with such intensity of purpose t...

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  • Distant Star
    Distant Star
    Bolaño, Roberto
    The star of Roberto Bolaño's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multi-media enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes t...

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  • Night of the Iguana, The
    Night of the Iguana, The
    Williams, Tennessee
    Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based.Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mex...

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  • Confessions of a Mask
    Confessions of a Mask
    Mishima, Yukio
    Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be "normal." Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his h...

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  • Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957-1987, The
    Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957-1987,...
    Paz, Octavio
    With additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, and Charles Tomlinson. ...

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  • Love Poems
    Love Poems
    Neruda, Pablo
    Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover's body: "today our bodi...

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  • Poetry As Insurgent Art
    Poetry As Insurgent Art
    Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
    A manifesto, essay, and discourse on the value of poetic thought in the modern age.In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of poetry by any livin...

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  • Setting Sun, The
    Setting Sun, The
    Dazai, Osamu
    Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of t...

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  • Nostalgia
    Nostalgia
    Cartarescu, Mircea
    Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading novelists and poets. This translation of his 1989 novel Nostalgia, writes Andrei Codrescu, introduces to English a writer who has always had a place reserved for him in a constellation that includes the Brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Bruno Schulz, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera,...

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