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Henri-Pierre Roche – Jules & Jim
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree bohemian existence. They write in cafés, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. But […]
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Thomas Bernhard – Wittgenstein’s Nephew
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIt is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of […]
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Thomas Bernhard – Correction
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his […]
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Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent’s charismatic priest Urban [...]
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Alfred Jarry – The Supermale
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJarry’s legendary novel is a comical celebration of erotic prowess in the machine age. With the very first word of his famous play Ubu Roi―”Shite!”―Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) [...]
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Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOn a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was […]
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Bruno Schulz – The Street Of Crocodiles
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz’s uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of […]
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Yukio Mishima – The Way Of The Samurai
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe original Hagakure contains the teachings of the samurai-turned-priest Jōchō Yamamoto (1659-1719), and was for generations preserved as moral and practical instructions for daimyo and samurai [...]
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Stephen LaBerge – Lucid Dreaming
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe average person spends nearly 25 years of their life sleeping. But you can get a lot more from sleeping than just a healthy night’s rest. With the art of […]
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Julio Cortazar – The Winners
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA widely assorted group of people win as a lottery prize a cruise—destination unknown. Their journey reads like—and is—a superb story of suspense that ranges from the most unconventional of […]
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Kobo Abe – The Face Of Another
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLike an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire [...]
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Bohumil Hrabal – Total Fears
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn these letters written to April Gifford (Dubenka) between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) chronicles the momentous events of those years as seen, more often than […]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]
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Elfriede Jelinek – The Piano Teacher
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. [...]
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Ernst Junger – On The Marble Cliffs
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSet in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator of […]
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Georges Bataille – Literature And Evil
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is guilty and should admit itself so.” The word, the flesh, and the […]
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Julio Cortazar – Hopscotch
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHoracio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A [...]
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Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPoems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars North Point Press, 1986 Hardcover edition. [...]
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Anais Nin – Journal of a Wife: The Early Diary
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA bridge between the early life of Nin and the first volume of her Diary. In pages more candid than in the preceding diaries, Nin tells how she exorcised the […]
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Jean Cocteau – Le Livre Blanc
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLe Livre Blanc, a “white paper” on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau’s contemporary Maurice Sachs, and was at once decried as by the critics [...]
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Anna Kavan – Ice
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusive girl in a frozen, seemingly post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The country has […]
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Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartVictimization and betrayal are frequently the themes of this Spanish writer, who saw plenty of both as a youth during his homeland’s Civil War. Based on an actual case study […]
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Alain Robbe-Grillet – Last Year At Marienbad
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he […]
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Jean Cocteau – Opium: The Diary Of A Cure
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe literary and cinematic legend gives his no-holds-barred account of a dangerous addiction In this classic study Cocteau vividly describes his extraordinary experiences while taking opium, the [...]
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Eugene Ionesco – The Hermit
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn his only novel, the celebrated dramatist has chosen as his main character a man who is both utterly banal yet strangely touched with grace, a lowly clerk who is […]
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Peter Handke – Repetition (1st US Edition)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSet in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s Repetition tells of Filib Kobal’s journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He […]
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Bruno Schulz – Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis during World War II. In the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, “What […]
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Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNeither Victims nor Executioners was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays […]
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Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIt was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to […]
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Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartImpish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut […]
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Kobo Abe – The Woman In The Dunes
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a […]
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Tadeusz Konwicki – The Anthropos-Specter-Beast
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAmid warnings of the earth’s end Peter encounters the Anthropos–Spectre–Beast and travels with the Investigator Dog on mysterious trips into the Universe. S.G Phillips, 1977 [...]
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Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAlberto Moravia’s nightmarish exploration of disaffected youth in fascist Italy. FSG, 1980 Hardcover First US edition. Light discoloration to dustjacket.
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Witold Gombrowicz – Ferdydurke
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to […]
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Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 1
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLadders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin […]
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Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 2
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLadders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin […]
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John Hawkes – Travesty
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartTravesty is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, […]
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Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThere’s Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Phil; Siegfried, the sculptor in burning steel; blind Albert and ninety-three-year-old Hiram; Foster, the New Age psychoanalyst; and Maxwell, the [...]
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Kobo Abe – The Ark Sakura (1st US Edition)
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication. […]
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Vladimir Paral – Catapult
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis twist on the Don Juan story looks at the attractions and difficulties of freedom. In the course of his commute, Jacek Jost is suddenly catapulted out of his daily […]
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Samuel Beckett – The Lost Ones
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA minimalist & absurdist masterpiece from one of the best. Grove Press, 1972 Hardcover edition. Discoloration to dustjacket. Dustjacket clipped. Remainder marks. Wear at spine of boards. Old [...]
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Celine – Fable For Another Time
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish […]
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Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMotel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own […]
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Claude Simon – Conducting Bodies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA thoroughly modernist novel, meaning it’s all about the construction of imagery in the mind that’s constantly shifting and evolving. There is no plot in the conventional sense, but [...]
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Robert Walser – Selected stories
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a […]
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Denton Welch – Fragments Of A Life Story
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIncludes every short story and fragment that Denton Welch, an acclaimed precursor to the Beats & the 90’s autofiction movement, wrote before his sudden passing. Penguin, 1987 Softcover [...]
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Andrei Bely – Petersburg
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartConsidered Andrei Bely’s masterpiece, Petersburg, is a pioneering modernist novel, ranked in importance alongside Ulysses, The Metamorphosis, and In Search of Lost Time, that captures [...]
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The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA survey of erotic literature throughout history. William Morrow, 1976 Hardcover edition. Light discoloration/wear to dustjacket.
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Robert Walser – The Walk
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a […]
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Tommaso Landolfi – An Autumn Story
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Set during WW II, this is the first novel to appear in English by the celebrated Italian author of Words in Commotion and Other Stories. The narrator, an outlaw, takes […]
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Adolfo Bioy Casares – Asleep In The Sun
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his […]
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Ernst Junger – Eumeswil
$75.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEumeswil, ostensibly a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, is effectively a comprehensive synthesis of Ernst Jünger’s mature thought, with a particular focus on new and achievable forms [...]
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Anthony Pagden – Worlds At War: The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East And West
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSpanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been […]
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Ziga Vodovnik – A Living Spirit Of Revolt
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The great contribution of Žiga Vodovnik is that his writing rescues anarchism from its dogma, its rigidity, its isolation from the majority of the human race. He reveals the natural […]
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Ryszard Kapuscinski – Travels With Herodotus
$6.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartJust out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wide-eyed […]
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Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland’s state newspaper. From the early days […]
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Ryszard Kapuscinski – Imperium
$7.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Polish journalist whose The Soccer War and The Emperor are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in Imperium to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This […]
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Evgeny Popov – The Soul Of A Patriot
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOne of the liveliest novels to come out of Russia in recent years, The Soul of a Patriot is, on the surface, a series of amusing letters written at the […]
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Paul Verlaine – The Cursed Poets
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAssembled from articles published in French journals, the full version of The Cursed Poets (Les Poètes maudits) was published in 1888. Arthur Rimbaud, the boy with whom Paul Verlaine had […]
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Hassan Blasim – The Corpse Exhibition
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective—by an explosive new voice hailed as “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The Guardian)—The Corpse […]
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