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  • Suffering Scholars

    Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France

    by Anne C. Vila ...
    Series series Intellectual History of the Modern Age
    As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until the eighteenth century that the phenomenon known as the "suffering scholar" reached its apotheosis, a ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD

  • Suffering Scholars

    Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France

    by Anne C. Vila ...
    Series series Intellectual History of the Modern Age
    As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until the eighteenth century that the phenomenon known as the "suffering scholar" reached its apotheosis, a ... Read more

    $91.19 CAD

  • Dublinesque

    by Enrique Vila-Matas ...
    Translated by Rosalind Harvey, Anne McLean ...
    In this novel, Enrique Vila-Matas traces a journey connecting the worlds of Joyce and Beckett, and all they symbolize.One night, a renowned and now retired literary publisher has a vivid dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he’s never visited. The central scene of the dream is a funeral in the era of Ulysses. The publisher would give anything to know if an unidentified character in his dream ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Enlightenment

    Edited by Anne C. Vila ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    This volume examines the varied ways in which the senses were perceived afresh during the Enlightenment. In addition to introducing new philosophical and scientific models which sometimes upended the classic hierarchy of the senses, this period witnessed major changes in living and working habits, including urbanization, travel and exploration, the invention of new sonic and visual media, and the ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • What is Hypnosis?

    Translated by Anne Vila ...
    by François Roustang, Léonard Anthony ...
    Long misunderstood as a harmless parlor trick or as a tool of manipulation, hypnosis has emerged to become a respected part of psychotherapy and even as a medical treatment. How did this unexpected transformation occur?The conversation began to change partly thanks to the publication of François Roustang's What is Hypnosis?, possibly the first attempt to accurately define the discipline of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Illogic of Kassel

    by Enrique Vila-Matas ...
    Translated by Anne McLean, Anna Milsom ...
    A literary look at one of Europe’s most acclaimed art exhibitions by a Spanish author “offering strange cerebral satisfactions” (Village Voice).A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary exhibition of contemporary art held every five years ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • A Brief History of Portable Literature

    by Enrique Vila-Matas ...
    Translated by Anne McLean, Thomas Bunstead ...
    A reader’s fictional tour of the art and lives of some of the great 20th-century SurrealistsAn author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short “history” of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of “portable literature.” The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD

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  • Stoner

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    Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different ... Read more

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  • Life After Life

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    by Kate Atkinson ...
    **"Is there Life After Life, chance after chance to rewrite one's destiny? That is the question posed by Atkinson's tale and brought to life by the miracle of her talent." —**Toronto StarWhat if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.During a snowstorm ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Being Dead

    A Novel

    by Jim Crace ...
    A National Book Critics Circle Award–winning novel and "a narrative of dazzling virtuosity" about love, death and the afterlife ( Publishers Weekly).Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes."Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell—just look at them—that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching ... Read more

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  • 2666

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    by Roberto Bolaño ...
    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERTHE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of ... Read more

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