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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. New. 108pp. Empyrean Series 9 'I want to tell an amusing story, and yet begin at a grave. It is cynical, but I hope that, after a few words of explanation, even tender souls will forgive me.' -- A weird tale of sleight-of-hand, of resurrection, of time travel, from the late 19th century. Newton's Brain by Jakub Arbes, translated from the Czech by Josef Jirí Král, is an example of what the author called a 'romanetto', a very brief novel, often with fantastic elements. Published in English in Poet Lore in 1892, the book tells the story of a young man of science, whose beliefs are tested when his childhood friend shows up unexpectedly-unexpected, because he had died when a sabre split his skull in two during the Austro-Prussian War some months earlier. Convinced that his friend is playing some kind of elaborate ruse, he accepts his invitation to a secretive lecture, at which his friend-who claims to have had his own damaged brain replaced with that of Isaac Newton-promises to reveal everything.' ~ Publisher.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

1st printing of this collection edited by Dennis Barone. 40 pages. No writing inside, not ex-library.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition. New. 44pp. Translated form the Spanish by Magdalena Edwards. 'Luis and Laura, an Argentine couple looking for a new beginning, settle in France, connected to their former home only through occasional letters from Luis's mother in Buenos Aires. But when a name from the past appears in an otherwise unremarkable letter, it comes with a dark shadow. What emerges is a psychological study of grief swirling with guilt, equal parts love-triangle and ghost story. "Letters from Mom" is one of Julio Cortázar's most beloved short stories, part of the same collection (Las armas secretas) that gave us "Blow-up" and "At Your Service". It is translated here into English for the first time.' ~ Publisher.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. New! 'A computational mistranslation of mid-twentieth century Fascist architectural writing, Rationalism engages how fascist principles, long-since published, reverberate in similar expressions of contemporary rhetoric, investigating figurative and physical constructs as mechanisms of isolation and containment built into language. Intentionally "ruining" these structures, Rationalism sifts through the debris to understand the materials from which they are built and who builds them.' ~ Publisher.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition. New. Empyrean Series No. 17. 'In Pages from the Diary of a Jackass (1925), a faithful beast of burden belonging to a drunkard farmer recounts the hapless adventures of his master, one of the inhabitants of a backwater town thrown into chaos by the arrival of a new deacon. Facing change and the loss of reputation, the farmer increasingly mistreats his jackass, who begins to question why he continues working for such a master. A political fable reminiscent of Orwell's Animal Farm, Duki?'s novella is a playful but moralistic work poking fun at religious and philosophical ideals. The English translation was made in 1931 by Vincent Uj?i?, pen name Vincent Georges, for the Progress Press of New York City in 1931.' ~ Publisher.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. New, 'Hidden in the pages of Dawn: The Journal of Petroleum Officials in Boryslav for nearly a century, the short story "Undula" represents the likely literary debut of Bruno Schulz. Published under the pseudonym Marceli Weron, "Undula" teems with Schulz's unmistakble voice, offering an important look into the nascent workings of his writing mind. Long thought to have been a literary late-bloomer, this breathtaking storyrisque even by his standardsprovides a glimpse of the formative period of one of the twentieth century's great prose stylists.' ~ Publisher.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Special Edition. Advance Reader Copy of this innovative short-story collection.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. A like new copy. 139pp.

Condizione: New. And the sentence must be that living body, that leaps and frolics through a meadow veiled in gentle green smoke; that sometimes runs after the luminous spark, and other times submerges itself in the clear water, to catch coralline blooms of thought at the bottom.In early twentieth century Spain, the dominant literary currents of the day were divided between a push for a spartan, utilitarian prose and a retreat to the well-worn stylings of "old masters". But there was an intrepid group of writers, artists, and thinkers concerned with a new linguistic vitality, incorporating the latest scientific knowledge while rising above mere functionalism. Taking his cues from Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Charlie Chaplin, and his mentor, José Ortega y Gasset, Benjamín Jarnés distilled these ideas into a series of short prose pieces dubbed Exercises (Ejercicios, 1927), in which he advocated for a language rife withâmetaphorical fireworksâ, a prose that eschews what we might call today âcraftâ for a fecundity of descriptive flourishes, logical leaps (that donât always connect), and a brash disregard for all schools and techniques.Benjamín Jarnés (1888â"1949) was among the foremost avant-garde writers of early twentieth century Spain. As a young man, he attended seminary before joining the army, where he served for a decade before turning his attentions to literary endeavors. His 1926 novel The Useless Professor is widely regarded as Spain's first avant-garde novel. After establishing himself as one of the preeminent voices of literary Spain, Jarnés would be forced to flee Spain after Francoâs victory in the Spanish Civil War (he fought on the side of the Republic, despite preferring to remain apolitical), settling eventually in Mexico, where he took as his primary task the writing of numerous biographies, including those of Stefan Zweig and Miguel de Cervantes. His other works include Teoría del zumbel (1930), Viviana y Merlín (1930), Rubricas: Nuevos ejercisos (1931), Escenas junto a la muerte (1931), Fauna contemporánea: Ensayos breves (1933), and Venus dinámica (1943).

Condizione: New. If you are grammatical you will shudder at times, but if you are fortunate enough not to be hampered in that way you will sigh long and deeply. Here is ecstasy. Now you are free to add to the race of words as rapidly as you please. Quaint words, crazy words, words with limp arms and broken hearts. Donât let anyone stop you! Down with birth control! âThe New FreedomâThis volume makes available some of the best short stories of a modernist fiction writer who came to prominence in the 1920s, whose work displays keen insights into the inner lives of ordinary people. Also included are several of Latimerâs early writings, which have never before been reprinted.ContentsTwelve StoriesThe ChildPossessionPicnic DayMr. and Mrs. ArnoldCityConfessionGrotesqueWinterOriginal SinDaisy TurlockPenanceSpringSelected Early WritingsThree SketchesOn the PlanesMeThe New FreedomMargery Latimer (Feb. 6, 1899â"Aug. 16, 1932) was born in Portage, Wisconsin. Latimer became active in the literary and journalistic scene and contributed journalism, criticism, and fiction to leading journals and reviews of the day while living in New York Cityâs Greenwich Village in the 1920s. Her work, which elicited high praise from critics and reviewers, includes the novels We Are Incredible (1928) and This Is My Body (1930), as well as two collections of short stories, Nellie Bloom and Other Stories (1929) and Guardian Angel and Other Stories (posthumous, 1932).

Condizione: New. Meanwhile valleys, lakes, and mountain ranges were rushing past him, and he took the fullest possible advantage of every stop along the way; but although his mind and his senses were perpetually captivated by new objects and bodies of knowledge, his heart of hearts remained a shrine wherein the holy flame perpetually burned in wor­ship of the wondrously beautiful knitter of his money purse.In this 1777 novella are related the life and the career of the pastor Johannes Mannheim as pieced together by his adult son from memories and documents after the fatherâs death. Through his Sunday sermons and his social influence, Mannheim institutes a number of agrarian and social reforms among his parishioners, ushering in a period of prosperity for his village and his family. Written and published shortly after Lenz was ordered to leave the Weimar court, here is an ambivalent idyll of the Sturm und Drang period, a work that both celebrates and challenges the idea of Enlightenment agency. This new translation of Lenzâs novella is by Douglas Robertson, who has previously translated works by Thomas Bernhard, Ludwig Tieck, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.The German-language writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (Jan. 23, 1751â"1792) was one of eight children born to a Lutheran pastor and a pastorâs daughter. Lenz passed his childhood and adolescence in Sesswegen, Livonia before going to Königsberg, Prussia to study theology, where he attended the lectures of Immanuel Kant. His first substantial work, the verse epic Die Landplagen [The Scourges], was published in 1769. In In 1774 several of Lenzâs plays were anonymously published, including Der Hofmeister [The Tutor] and Der neue Menoza [The New Menoza]. In 1776 Lenz went to Weimar, hoping to find employment at court, but was ordered to leave, probably for writing an offensive pasquinade about the Duchess. In 1777 he stayed for several months with Goetheâs brother-in-law Johann Georg Schlosser, during which time he wrote Der Landprediger [The Country Preacher], serialized later the same year. In the winter of 1777â"78 Lenz suffered a mental health crisis, an account of which was recorded by the village pastor Jean-Frédéric Oberlin, and which was later freely adapted by Georg Büchner as a source for the fictional reconstruction of Lenz's experience during his stay. In the years 1779â"81 Lenz traveled several times between Livonia and Saint Petersburg trying to find employment as a school principal or at the Russian court. In 1781 he went to Moscow, where he found employment in a boarding school for children of the nobility. He later translated Sergei Ivanovich Plescheevâs Survey of the Russian Empire into German and produced a range of essays and other literary works, many of them fragmentary. He died in Moscow of unknown causes at the age of forty-one.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. New. 'Originally published in a scant edition of 135 copies, Secession in Astropolis (Black Sun Press, 1929) collects several dreams, poems, and playlets exemplifying the theories underlying the mystical brand of modernism laid out by Jolas in works like Language of the Night and the Vertigralist Pamphlet.' ~ Publisher.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition. New. 'There is no need to place your hand on a wound to feel it throbbing in pain. There is no need to see its root to know that a tree is dying. I am renouncing history. A film frame has lost its meaning. Vain and cruel, I have become a self that contains all negations to come, I have escaped the universe of time and space?page after page, touch after touch, train after train. I have become the idea of a sea beast moving in the deep. I have become the labyrinth. I am entombed in poetry. In the first stanza, in the last, in the blueness of thirsting ink?in the bruising of eternity. I have become alone. I am alone.' ~Publisher.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition. New. 'Chimeras is a book concerned with silences, the unspoken undercurrents of untranslated texts. Prompted by the author's encounters with the lesser-known prose by the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-72), and with the essays and letters by the Italian writer and translator Cristina Campo (1923-77), Cascella finds her voice in the uneasy space where there seems to be little to say because there is too much that is difficult to articulate; and she asks what happens in writing before translation, what faint signals may be heard, and how to transmit them. The resulting text presents three approaches to writing in these conditions, all of them arguing for a writing of criticism as kinship, resonance, conversation, entanglement, haunting. In the Deranged Essay the author's conflicts, euphorias, struggles in reading Campo and Pizarnik become part of the text rather than being excluded; in the Imaginary Conversation, written in the lineage and in the artificial tones of the ancient Dialogues of the Dead, she talks with Campo and Pizarnik drawing on their letters and journals, allowing her words to merge with theirs, in the gaps she found while studying their archives, where evidence is missing and another form of thinking with their works can be imagined and written; finally, the Transcelation is a text written in the form of the making and the tolling of a bell, fusing the old bronze of Campo's prose into the author's own, attempting to transmit Campo's tone, working with the resonance of her words to the point where it is no longer clear who is commenting on whom, transforming, interfering, repeating, as footnotes overspill and become frayed, fictional, confused. ' ~ Publisher.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition. New. Translated into English for the first time, the collected poems of Max Blecher-the lone volume of poetry published in his lifetime, Transparent Body, along with verse published in periodicals and posthumously-add important color to Blecher's body of work, most clearly displaying his early surrealist tendencies, as well as illustrating key moments in his prose works, as readers will find allusions and callbacks to his three novels. This volume is bilingual, with the original Romanian on the facing pages. ~ Publisher.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition. New! 124pp. Rabelais's Doughnuts is an original collection of the short writings of Pierre Senges. It brings together seven monologues, essays, fictions, and glosses that have never appeared together before: "Suite', "Last Judgment (detail)", "A Slightly Vain Exercise in Style', "On the Electrophorus and the Tohu-Bohu', "Measure of All Things', "Many Ways to Stuff a Watermelon', "The Counterfeiter'. Topics addressed include: Daniele da Volterra and the Sistine Chapel; the correspondence of Pierre Aretino, addressed to the artist Michelangelo; the affordances of different media for writing/reading through the ages; the relative merits of manifestos versus those of six-hundred-page novels; various writers' libraries, real, apocryphal, and fictional; Kleist's Abendblatter; and slightly vain exercises in style. ~ Publisher.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. New. 70pp. 'In The Voices, Rilke presents a series of portraits of pariahs, outcasts, the down-and-outs, turning his often inward gaze toward The Other in a way that pleasantly undermines our notions of his poetic interests. In this new translation, Kristofor Minta breathes new life into these poems, which exude a kind of heat, if only enough to warm your hands by. Includes the original German on facing pages.' ~ Publisher.