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The Rings of Saturn

W. G. Sebald

A record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia.

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Selected Essays of John Berger

John Berger

Once read, Berger’s insights make it impossible to look at a painting, watch a film, or even make love quite the same way again. The range of subjects he addresses…

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Selected Poems | Francis Ponge

Francis Ponge

Through translations by two major contemporary poets and a scholar intimate with the Ponge canon, this volume offers selections of mostly earlier poetry - Le parti pris des choses, Pieces…

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Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice.

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Leaving the Atocha Station

Ben Lerner

From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the angst of the young American abroad.

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Collected Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

In honor of the centenary of the birth of Borges, this collection of his fiction has been gathered into a single volume. An unparalleled treasury of marvels. – Chicago Tribune.

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Hav

Jan Morris

But Morris’s visit ends in flight when an unidentified enemy arrives to seize control. When Jan Morris returns to Hav, some twenty years later, she finds that her account of…

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The Passive Vampire

Luca Gherasim

Originally published in 1945 in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 in the magazine La part du sable. Luca…

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An Elemental Thing

Eliot Weinberger

Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule…

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Bartleby And Co

Enrique Vila-Matas

Marcelo, a humble clerk in a Barcelona office who might have come from a novel by Kafka, inhibits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel…

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I Curse the River of Time

Per Petterson

It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over…

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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

Cesar Aira (New Directions)

An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man’s life that…

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Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan

Paul Celan

The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europe’s leading postwar poet, including previously unpublished writings.

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