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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket as Issued. CG4 - A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with a clear plastic lamination applied to the covers plus there are the usual library stamps, pocket and label on the spine, the top, bottom, and right outside pape…r edges, the inside surface of the front cover and the title page. Translated form the German by Mike Mitchell. A novel about a psychiatrist who is married and in her mid-thirties. Her professional life has reached a state of crisis because two of her patients recently committed suicide. Her new patient is obsessed with Maria Callas and claims she appears to him in visions. She meets her patient outside of the office and falls in love with him. He refuses to have an affair with her and disappears, after claiming to be the Devil and to have inhabited Callas's poodle. She later discovers him performing in a variety theater as a magician under the name of the Great Bagarozy. 153p. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. One of the great masterpieces of literary fantasy and a joy to read. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1873982224 VERY GOOD.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Dorita has made a success of life: she has a husband with a good position, children, furs, jewels, cars, a rich social life. In a crowded shopping street she meets Carmen, an old school friend she has not seen for years. Carmen is the dowdy, studious one. She has qualified as a teacher but…is unmarried. She has none of the glamour of Dorita, but her self-esteem is bolstered by her belief that she is indispensable to her sister's family as a baby-sitter. A coffee to have a chat over past times is followed by a Martini, then another and another. Beneath the friendly chat, each woman tries to assert her sense of her own value, and things become more and more fraught until, in a grotesque attempt to prove her sexual superiority, Dorita goes to the toilet for a sexual encounter with a man sitting at the next table. AUTHOR: Of Spanish and Greek origin, Mercedes Deambrosis is a new and individual voice in French fiction. Milagrosa, her first novel,(Dedalus edition 2002) has been described as a revelation, a stylistic tour de force. Marie-Claire said, "Mercedes Deambrosis is an unknown. That is quite normal, this is her first novel. But what assurance! One would swear it was written by an author at the height of her powers." An accidental meeting between two old acquaintances turns into a long evening of bitter, drunken humiliations for both. In her second novel, Deambrosis (Milagrosa, 2002), a French author of Greek and Spanish descent, offers a brief, almost parable-like tale that's bent on exposing the arrogance that accompanies success and the neuroses that pollute a life full of failures. Dorita and Carmen knew each other in high school, but when they accidentally meet again on a winter's day outside a bustling Spanish department store, they're 50-somethings who've settled into very different lifestyles: Carmen is a mousy, timid schoolteacher caring for her sister's family instead of starting one of her own, while Dorita married up, to a cardiologist, and enjoys a ladies-who-lunch lifestyle of nice clothes and shiny jewelry. Dorita's proud enough-and insecure enough-to tell anybody who'll listen just how fortunate she is, and soon after the two decide to go out for drinks, Dorita turns Carmen into her punching bag, criticizing Carmen's beverage choices, her coat, her purse, even the handkerchief she uses to clean her glasses. Dorita becomes only more verbally abusive as the night drunkenly drags on, which of course only reveals the depths of her neediness; by the time Dorita attempts to seduce a young man in a dive bar, she's a thoroughly grotesque, hollowed-out creature. The familiar, hackneyed version of a story with two characters like these would end with Dorita's comeuppance and Carmen's sudden acquisition of a backbone. But Deambrosis resists the impulse to fall into cliches; though Dorita's actions are contemptible, she's not entirely wrong about Carmen, and as we learn more about Carmen's history (including a long-kept secret relating to the title of the book), she becomes as pitiable as she is goodhearted. Though it's a relatively unambitious novel-more like a one-act play than a full-bodied narrative-it accomplishes quite a bit within its limited boundaries. Slim but potent. (Kirkus Reviews) Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. With her first novel, Sophie Jabes presents a fable on women's fragile self-image and the old chestnut of 'being nice' to please men. Deceptively simple, the story is in reality a twisted, melancholic, and darkly funny tale that its author takes through to an excessive conclusion. There is…nothing wrong with Alice. She is attractive, even beautiful. All is well. One day she will meet her handsome prince. And then her father announces that as she is no Marilyn Monroe, she 'must be nice to men.' Wounded right to the depths of her being, Alice starts to fill that emptiness with food: calzone and mozzarella, flavoured ice creams and chocolate tarts. Experiencing sex for the first time, she finds the man has left money. Is this what 'being nice' means? Men come and go in her flat in Rome. They bear gifts of food, which she eats as she offers her body and her speciality: 'the ice cream cornet'. Alice grows in size until she cannot move. For Fulvio and Flavio, escapees from the mental hospital, Alice prepares her last meal. AUTHOR: Born in Milan in 1958, Sophie Jabes's childhood and adolescence was spent in Rome, before travelling the globe. She has worked in television, and currently lives in Paris. Her second novel, Caroline assasine was published in France in 2004 and her third, Clitomotrice, in 2005. REVIEWS: "This surreal frenzy of melancholy and black humour is a fable concerning the fragility of a female self-image that is continually shaped by society. A flippant criticism from her father leads Alice to subjugate herself to varying degrees of humiliation in an effort to please all around her, as she becomes a vessel for food and sex. The resulting grotesque denouement involving cannibalism and twins escaped from a mental hospital is barely digestible." - Dave Thomas in Buzz Magazine Presents a fable on women's fragile self-image and the old chestnut of "being nice" to please men. This book tells a twisted, melancholic, and funny tale that is taken through to an excessive conclusion. It talks about attractive and beautiful Alice, who offers her body and her speciality to men. Later, she grows in size until she cannot move. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A murder in a small Cretan village: its motive and the fortunes of two families reflect the history of the Greek nation in the early part of the twentieth century. A magical, intricate tale, rich in peasant myth and narrated in the detached yet ultimately moving style of a modern Herodotus.… Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This new translation by Brendan King is the first for nearly fifty years. Capturing the lively linguistic inventiveness of the original, it also includes an introduction and comprehensive notes. First published in 1876, "Marthe" was an important landmark in J.K. Huysmans's literary career:…it was the 28-year old writer's first excursion into the novel form and propelled him into the growing ranks of the Naturalist movement, then beginning to take shape under Zola's direction. "Marthe" was one of the first French novels to tackle head-on the subject of prostitution, a theme that was to become a central preoccupation in the work of many novelists, painters and poets. Set in and around the demi-monde of the Parisian music hall, it centres on a would-be actress, Marthe, who works in one of the lowest dives in Paris, and tells the story of her brief and ultimately doomed relationship with Leo, a romantic searching for something to take the place of his lost illusions. "M. Huysmans leads us into places so foul, dens so iniquitous, that his readers, however shameless you imagine them to be, can no longer follow him". - "Gazette Anecdotique", 1876. J. K. Huysmans's early works excel in their descriptive ability and he is one of the greatest authors in describing the life of Paris and its surroundings as witnessed by his Parisian Sketches (Dedalus translation by Brendan King in 2004). The publication of "A Rebours" in 1884, made Huysmans one of the most famous authors of his day. His novel about Satanism, "La-Bas" (1891) is surely the cult novel of the nineteenth century. (Brendan King's translation was selected by Beryl Bainbridge as one of the best books published in 2001 in "The Independent"). "La-Bas" is the first of four novels about Huysmans alter ego Durtal, which was followed by "En Route" (1895), "The Cathedral" (1898), and "The Oblate of St Benedict" (1903), all available from Dedalus. Robert Baldick's "The Life of J.-.K.Huysmans" was published by Dedalus in March 2006. "Marthe" was one of the first French novels to tackle head-on the subject of prostitution. This work centres on a would-be actress, Marthe, who works in one of the lowest dives in Paris, and tells the story of her brief and ultimately doomed relationship with Leo, a romantic searching for something to take the place of his lost illusions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Orkhan is released from a lifetime's captivity in the Cage of the Imperial Harem & finds himself hailed by the Harem's concubines as their new Sultan. But flowers of evil flourish in a bed of boredom, & he enters a maze of perverse relationships. Shipping may be from multiple locations in t…he US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Sonatas are the memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomin, a Galician Don Juan. Where the Spring and Summer Sonatas showed us Bradomin at the height of his powers, we find him now in the autumn and winter of his life, In the Autumn Sonata, Bradomin is called to the side of Concha, an ex-lover,… to be with her in her final days. Despite her frail state, their love is rekindled, a fact that is a source of both delight and torment to the pious Concha, and her inevitable death leaves Bradomin, equally inevitably, mourning himself 'like an ancient god at the death of the cult that once worshipped him'. The Winter Sonata finds Bradomin in the icy streets of Estrella, at the court of the pretender, Carlos. Bradomin rekindles an old love affair that, again, comes to nothing. He is gravely and unnecessarily wounded on a mission he is sent on by the King and, while recuperating in a convent hospital, he idly and unthinkingly makes a young nun fall in love with him. Even in old age, Bradomin sows pain and death wherever he finds love. AUTHOR: Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1869-1935) was one of the major Spanish writers of his period. His bohemianism and quick wit, and the success of his novels, plays and verse made him an outstanding figure in Madrid literary circles. Dedalus published Spring and Summer Sonatas in 1997 and Autumn and Winter Sonatas in 1998. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Set during the Soviet era, a remote, police-run settlement called the Ninth Siding exists only for the mysterious Zero Train that halts there. Carlos is the grandson of Afonso da Maia, the last surviving member of one of Lisbon's wealthiest and most illustrious families. Carlos is handsome,… clever, and eager to contribute something to society. Then, one day, walking along Lisbon's grubby streets he sees a woman who seems to him like a goddess who has just stepped down from the clouds. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Continuation is Grimmelshausen's 'pilgrim's progress', the concluding chapter in one of the greatest and most acclaimed German novels. As in his other books, Grimmelshausen's fourth 'Simplician' novel combines fantastic episodes with a realistic narrative style. At the end of his origin…al adventures his hero withdraws from the world to live as a hermit in the Black Forest. Now, after a vivid dream of the Devil and all his minions at work, he decides to become a pilgrim and visit the holy places, making his way, with various encounters, across Switzerland to Italy, where he takes passage on a ship to Egypt. Outside Cairo he is captured by Arab robbers who take him to the Red Sea, exhibiting him as as wild man from the desert. Rescued by European merchants, he embarks on a ship to return home via the Cape of Good Hope, but the ship is wrecked and, 50 years before Robinson Crusoe, he is marooned on a desert island with the ship's carpenter. After his companion dies from over-indulgence in fermented palm juice, he is once again a hermit, happy with his lot, and rejects the offer of a return home when the crew of a Dutch ship, that was blown off course, land on his island. AUTHOR: ohann Jakob Christoffel Von Grimmelshausen was born at Gelnhausen in 1621 or 1622. His early life was dominated by the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) in which he fought for both sides. He describes his first involvement in the war as a 'snotty-nosed ten-year-old musketeer' in his writing and served as a soldier until its end. His experiences in the Thirty years War are mirrored in his masterpiece, Simplicissimus which was first published in 1668 and was the first bestselling novel in Germany. Several of his later work takes up themes and characters occurring in Simplicissimus, including The Life of Courage;Whore, Thief and Vagabond, Tearaway and The Continuation of Simplicissimus finishes the story. The Continuation is Grimmelshausen's 'pilgrim's progress', the concluding chapter in one of the greatest and most acclaimed German novels. As in his other books, Grimmelshausen's fourth 'Simplician' novel combines fantastic episodes with a realistic narrative style set in the aftermath of the Thirty Years War. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "Stephanie" is a unique blend of fantasy, dark comedy and acute social comment and is Herbert Rosendorfer's most brilliant novel since the publication of "The Architect of Ruins." What begins as a middle class German housewife's nightmare of another existence as an 18th century Spanish duch…ess who has murdered her husband, turns into reality. Stephanie accepts her prior existence and her crime, so that she can consummate her passion.It is an extraordinary work of art which has enjoyed critical and commercial success throughout Europe, and will shortly be made into a film. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The ageing Simplicissimus and his former comrade Tearaway happen to meet in a village inn. Tearaway then recounts his adventurous life, which takes him through the horrors of the Thirty Years' War and then to Hungary to fight against the Turks, before ending up as a one-legged travelling fi…ddler. 'The author', the ageing Simplicissimus and his former comrade Tearaway (a character from Simplicissimus) happen to meet in a village inn. First of all 'the author' describes how he was caught by Courage and her band of gypsies and conned into writing her life-story for her. In the main part of the novel, Tearaway then recounts his adventurous life, which takes him through the horrors of the Thirty Years' War and then to Hungary to fight against the Turks, later to Italy and Greece. He ends up as a one-legged fiddler, travelling round Germany, playing, begging, stealing and cheating. The narrative includes tales of trickery, sorcery and magic, some revolving round Tearaway's wife, who discovers a magic bird's nest which makes her invisible and which she uses it for various escapades, including cuckolding Tearaway, until she is caught and killed. Despite the fantastic elements of some episodes, the novel is told in the same down-to-earth, often earthy style of Grimmelshausen's other novels. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Carlo misses his father. His parents are separated, he is with his mother in Germany while his father is back in their native Palermo. His father is always about to visit but somehow never quite gets to Germany. Carlo gets tired of waiting and decides to do something about it and sets off f…or Palermo but without any money to pay his fare. What happens is a series of adventures when anything that could go wrong does but Carlo despite everything gets to Palermo. He finds his father who has a new partner and it is clear his family will never be reunited. There is no happy ending and Carlo is sent back to Germany to be reunited with his mother Carlo has learnt a lot about life and the adult world. The fat little boy accepts the life he has and comes to term with his reality. It is a story which will strike a chord with many readers as they take Carlo into their hearts. AUTHOR: Oliver Scherz was born in Essen in Germany in 1974. He is a playwright and film director. He began writing for children when his daughter was born. He has become one of Germany's most successful authors of children books. His books include Ben and Nobody Can Stop Don Carlo. He lives with his family in Berlin A novel aimed at children in 9-13 age group. Carlo misses his father who lives in Palermo while Carlo lives with his mother in Germany so he decides to go to Sicily to see him. He has no money and everything that can go wrong does but despite everything he does get to Palermo to see his father. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Vivaldo Bonfim was a bored book-keeper whose main escape from the tedium of his work was provided by novels. In the office, he tended to read rather than work, and, one day, became so immersed in a book that he got lost and disappeared completely. That, at least, is the version given to Viv…aldo's son, Elias, by his grandmother. One day, Elias sets off, like a modern-day Telemachus, in search of the father he never knew. His journey takes him through the plots of many classic novels, replete with murders, all-consuming passions, wild beasts and other literary perils, and the resulting novel is, at once, a celebration of filial love, friendship and literature. AUTHOR: Afonso Cruz (1971) has so far written thirteen works of fiction, and his work has already brought him many prizes, with The Books that Devoured my Father winning the 2010 Premio Literario Maria Rosa Colaco. As well as working as a writer, illustrator and maker of animated films, he also sings and plays in the blues/roots band The Soaked Lamb. Elias goes in search of his father who got so immersed in a book that he got lost and disappeared completely. Elias's journey takes him through the plots of many classic novels and the resulting novel is, at once, a celebration of filial love, friendship and literature. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Dedalus Ltd, Cambs, 2020
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In Caterina, Claudia Durastanti presents us with a Cleopatra for our times - no exotic queen courted by two lovers with the fate of an empire in their hands but a young would-be ballet dancer who now works in as a cleaner in a down-at-heel hotel. This is the Rome of the underclass, of illeg…al immigrants, gypsies and sex shops where life is a struggle for dysfunctional families and nothing comes easy, except disappointment. Every Thursday Caterina visits her boyfriend Aurelio in Rebibbia prison in Rome, where, following a mysterious tip-off to the police, he is being held in custody under suspicion of pimping the strippers in the nightclub he was running. What would Aurelio say if he knew that she went straight from the prison to meet the policeman who arrested him, and who is now her lover? Caterin's life is difficult and her environment challenging but she is a survivor and takes everything life throws at her without complaint. Caterina is very much a heroine for our times. AUTHOR: Claudia Durastanti is a writer and literary translator based in London. Her critically acclaimed debut novel Un giorno verro a lanciare sassi alla tua finestra won the Premio Mondello Giovani in 2010. Her writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Nero Magazine and Rolling Stone Italia. She's a former Italian Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. Currently she's a contributor to La Repubblica. In Caterina, Claudia Durastanti presents us with a Cleopatra for our times, a young would-be ballet dancer who now works in as a cleaner in a down-at-heel hotel. This is the Rome of the underclass where life is a struggle for dysfunctional families and nothing comes easy, except disappointment. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Written as a continuation of Vathek, these are tales told in Hell by perverted individuals doomed to an eternity of suffering. They treat of such themes as necrophilia, tranvestism, incest, un-limited lust and the arbitrary use of power. The Episodes of Vathek is a cry of despair from a man… committed to a forbidden love. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On one level this is a political thriller set in Algiers in 1959. The French know that they are going to lose control of the territory and are resorting to torture to hold their ground. On another level it is a study of the complex psychology of a traitor and the inevitable failure of imper…alism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Dedalus Ltd, Cambs, 2025
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Aboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina devour his father, before being plucked out of the aquarium himself. Just as he is put in the boiling pot, the ship hits the iceberg and the pot is thrown to the floor. Lobster survives, with some changes: he finds himself sexually attracted not…only to a human, but to the very human who ate his father. He gives her one life-changing orgasm before their tragic separation, following an ugly incident in one of the lifeboats. "A fable of crustacean love. Our hero is a lobster aboard the Titanic. From his tank, he watches his father being eaten by a pretty girl. Then the boat founders and Lobster escapes. Aboard the sinking ship, Angelina, the girl who ate his dad, knows a brief but shattering moment of physical love with Lobster. Then they are separated. They pine for each other. Angelina tries having sex with another lobster, with disastrous results. Death smells of bay leaves." -- Sam Leith in The Daily Telegraph"In terms of abusing the natural world, Lobster by Guillaume Lecasble is in a league of its own. The surrealist tale of a lobster on board the Titanic which finds itself helplessly attracted to a human female, the book hinges on the life-changing orgasm the fishy amorist gives Angelina as the boat sinks in the icy water." -- Tom Fleming in The Literary Review On board the Titanic, a lobster is saved from death at the moment he was about to be boiled. Now red, yet alive, he manages to escape, but not before an erotic moment with the woman that ate his father. A weird and wonderful little fable. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On the face of things, Mastro Don Gesualdo is a success. Born a peasant but a man' with an eye for everything going', he becomes one of the richest men in Sicily, marrying an aristocrat with his daughter destined, in time, to wed a duke. But Gesualdo falls foul of the rigid class structure…of mid-19th century Sicily. His title Mastro Don, 'Worker Gentleman', is ironic in itself. Peasants and gentry alike resent his extraordinary success. And when the pattern of society is threatened by revolt, Gesualdo is the rebels' first target. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In Balzac's classic study of obsession, a chance meeting changes Balthazar Claes' life as it introduces him to alchemy and initiates his quest of the absolute. Throughout, our sympathy is equally divided between Balthazar's single-minded determination to push back the frontiers of knowledge…, and the ruin of his family. "The Quest Of The Absolute" Was first published in France in 1834 and appears in a new edition from Dedalus, translated by Ellen Marriage and with an afterword and chronology by Christopher Smith. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Dedalus Ltd, Cambs, 2012
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Twelve years ago after its first publication Las Adventures des Inspector Cabillot arrived in the UK by popular demand. Inspector Cabillot, the first Europanto detective, tackles varied European concerns such as a mad cow disease terrorist cell that takes over London and the kidnapping of a… major European Union leader by Finnish nationalists who want to replace Europanto with Finnish as the only language of the European Union. These stories take a light-hearted look at the European Union and its problems in a language created to give Europeans a common tongue. The linguistic recipe used by Diego Marani is broadly the following; take a firm grounding of English and French, toss in chunks of German, Spanish and Italian; garnish with a dash of Flemish and Euroslang; pour the contents into a language liquidiser and serve when thoroughly pureed. Ben MacIntyre in The Times AUTHOR: Diego Marani was born in Ferrara in 1959. He works as a senior linguist for the European Union in Brussels. Every week he writes a column for a Swiss newspaper about current affairs in Europanto, a language that he has invented. His collection of short stories in Europanto, Las Adventures des Inspector Cabillot has been published by Dedalus. In Italian he has published six novels, including the highly acclaimed New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs. "The linguistic recipe used by Diego Marani is broadly the following: take a firm grounding of English and French, toss in chunks of German, Spanish and Italian; garnish with a dash of Flemish and Euroslang."--P. [4] of cover. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
