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The Glass Bees
Glass Bees
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Ernst Jünger
Junger
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In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future.
Contributors: Bruce Sterling , Elizabeth Mayer and Louise Bogan |
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Memed, My Hawk
Memed My Hawk
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Yashar Kemal
Kemal
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Tenderness and violence, generosity and ruthlessness explode unpredictably in a tale of high adventure that is also a profoundly considered response to a troubled world.
Contributors: Edouard Roditi |
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They Burn the Thistles
They Burn the Thistles
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Yashar Kemal
Kemal
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The great Turkish writer Yashar Kemal's tales of conflict and adventure set in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Turkey fuse ancient local traditions of oral storytelling with the social and psychological awareness of the nineteenth-century novel.
Contributors: Bill McKibben , Margaret E. Platon |
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The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard
Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard
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W.H. Auden
Kierkegaard
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Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote. |
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An African in Greenland
African in Greenland
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Tete-Michel Kpomassie
Kpomassie
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"Kpomassie is indisputably a man of extraordinary charm; he is also sharp and perceptive and honest?unencumbered by a sense of obligation to his hosts that might have prevented him from telling us what they are really like."— Katherine Bouton, The Nation
Contributors: Al Alvarez , James Kirkup |
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The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II
Stalin Front
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Gert Ledig
Ledig
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A grueling story of combat in a newly discovered masterpiece of world literature.
Contributors: Michael Hofmann |
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The Waste Books
Waste Books
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg
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The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought.
Contributors: R.J. Hollingdale |
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Soul of Wood
Soul of Wood
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Jakov Lind
Lind
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Lind's stories of the Second World War and its repercussions deal masterfully with a world of horror through fantasy, paradox, and sardonic distortion and bring to life the agonies of twentieth-century Europe. "It is amazing that he is witty; it is not at all surprising that he is profound." —The New York Times
Contributors: Michael Krüger , Ralph Manheim |
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Kaputt
Kaputt
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Curzio Malaparte
Malaparte
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Reveals the horrors of war from within the heart of corruption.
Contributors: Dan Hofstadter , Cesare Foligno |
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The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
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Osip Mandelstam
mandelstam
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Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century.
Contributors: Clarence Brown, W.S. Merwin |
