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Title	Author	Description
Tyrant Banderas Tyrant Banderas	Ramón del Valle-Inclán	The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and an inspiration to García Márquez and Roa Bastos, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American Republic at last revolting against the ruthless monster that has ruled it for so long. Contributors: Alberto Manguel , Peter Bush
Monsieur Proust Monsieur Proust	Céleste Albaret Albaret	This lovely book is as close as we can come to meeting Proust in person. Contributors: André Aciman , Barbara Bray
Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg Moura	Nina Berberova Berberova	In this legendary biography, an unusual labor of love, Berberova paints a portrait of the ultimate survivor, a woman who made her life a triumph of fiction. Contributors: Marian Schwartz, Richard D. Sylvester
Mouchette Mouchette	Georges Bernanos Bernanos	First published as Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette in 1937, this French classic is the basis for Robert Bresson's cult film. Contributors: Fanny Howe , J.C. Whitehouse
War and the Iliad War and the Iliad	Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff Bespaloff	These essays do more than prove the permanent relevance of Homer's great poem. They analyze the logic of war itself, and explore how intoxicating violence defines the human condition. Contributors: Christopher Benfey , Hermann Broch , Mary McCarthy
The Book of My Life Book of My Life	Girolamo Cardano Cardano	At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait. Contributors: Anthony Grafton , Jean Stoner
Asleep in the Sun Asleep in the Sun	Adolfo Bioy Casares Casares	Bioy Casares's strange, sly novel may be read as a fable of modern politics or as a meditation on the elusive parameters of the self. Above all, it is an almost scarily perfect comic turn, as well as a pure delight. Contributors: James Sallis , Suzanne Jill Levine
Moravagine Moravagine	Blaise Cendrars Cendrars	At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch—except that it is a lot more entertaining to read. Contributors: Paul La Farge , Alan Brown
Peasants and Other Stories Peasants and Other Stories	Anton Chekhov Chekhov	"No one understood as clearly and finely as Anton Chekhov the tragedy of life's trivialities, no one before him showed men with such merciless truth the terrible and shameful picture of their life in the dim chaos of bourgeois everyday existence." —Maxim Gorky Contributors: Edmund Wilson , Constance Garnett
The Pure and the Impure Pure and the Impure	Colette Colette	The Pure and the Impure stands out as one of modern literature's subtlest reckonings not only with the varieties of sexual experience, but with the always unlikely nature of love. Contributors: Judith Thurman , Herma Briffault