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The dancing other takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite feel at home in ...

After years on the job, police detective Jakob Franck has retired. Finally, the dead with all their mysteries will no longer have any claim on him....

Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form o...

“Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911 and listens. ” Thus begins an epic bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk...

In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, the Flying Mountai...

The Lectures on Poetics Series at the University of Frankfurt VI has hosted many illustrious speakers at its lectern, including Ingeborg Bachmann, ...

It’s Switzerland in the 1920s when the two lovers first meet. She is young, beautiful and rich. In contrast, he can barely support himself and is i...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstei...

Writing in 2007, French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) was remarkably prophetic, foretelling the international economic meltdown of 2008...

This play by poet and political activist Aimé Césaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Republic of Con...

In these three short books—Servabo: A Fin De Siècle Memoir, Miss Kirchgessner, and The Medlar Tree, collected in one volume in English for the firs...

In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Ger...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstei...

The Aftermath of War brings together essays written in Sartre’s most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre’s extraordinary range of enga...

Critical Essays (Situations I) contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of French philosopher and leading existe...

Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin,...

Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can th...

Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn’t be better—a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends—un...

During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on September 27th?...

Bergeners is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer...

In recent years, the refugee problem has become impossible to ignore, as multiple crises in the Middle East and Africa have driven thousands of des...

Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the...

At the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann’s magnum opus a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It ...

Chandrasekhar Kambar is one of the most accomplished Indian writers working today. In each of Kambar’s novels, the archetypical Mother, Karimayi, i...

We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light...

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How To Read Literature by Terry Eagleton, 8170463564, 9788170463566, Seagull Books

A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the Fr...

Mohammed Albakry is professor of English and applied linguistics at Middle Tennessee State University. Rebekah Maggor is assistant professor in the...

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 ...

Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. “His presence,” she writes, “gave me the sensation of...

Toby Litt is best known for his “hip-lit” fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always ta...

Originally published in Italian in 1965, a test of powers was immediately seen as one of the central texts of Italian intellectual life. By the tim...

Offers a quasi-autobiographical essay that leads the reader through different phases of author's life: from his early adventures in drawing to his ...

Hailed by the poet Paul eluard as an ‘absolute masterpiece’ upon its first appearance in 1946, René char’s hypnos is both a remarkable work of lite...

Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression....

On December 29, 1918, the spartakus League, a Marxist revolutionary movement, rose up in Germany calling for an end to Class rule by the bourgeoisi...

Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality the workplace, on the street and...

Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a pr...

In 1900, Dutch art historians Andre Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with...

A personal narrative surfaces in splinters and shards. Every word from Bonnefoy is multifaceted, like the fragmented figures seen from different an...

An introduction to Franco Fortini, a Jewish communist and a major figure in postwar Italian intellectual life. It is against those who love to rush...

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Reason Faith And Revolution

To grow up is to grow old. With time, great love can turn into indifference. This title compares Western and Eastern - specifically Chinese - ways ...