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“jerzy ficowski”

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  • Waiting for the Dog to Sleep

    Waiting for the Dog to Sleep is poet, translator, and scholar Jerzy Ficowski's only collection of prose. In these short stories and sketches Ficowski reinterprets a question posed by the writer central to him, Bruno Schulz, about the mythologization of reality. For Schulz, fiction was a way of turning the quotidian into the fantastical and eternal. Ficowski's prose seems to reinterpret this ... Read more

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  • Ariel

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They ... Read more

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  • Speak, Memory

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    Series series Vintage International
    From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • "Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." —The New York TimesSpeak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of ... Read more

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  • The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

    Series series Vintage International
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  • Good Bones and Simple Murders

    With pieces from 1992's Good Bones and 1983's Murder in the Dark, this collection of works that defies easy categorization was brought together in 2001 as Good Bones and Simple Murders. Here, Margaret Atwood offers wickedly sharp prose poems, flash fiction, and micro-fables that challenge and up-end the myths, fairytales, and stories we all know and love, showcasing her at her most playful and ... Read more

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    This award-winning short story collection by the acclaimed author of Winter's Tale "ascends to the peak of literary achievement" ( The Boston Globe).Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these eleven stories demonstrate Mark Helprin's mastery of fiction across a diverse spectrum of styles. The stories in this collection range from children caught in a Vermont blizzard to ... Read more

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  • Parallel Stories

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    by Péter Nádas ...
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  • Good Bones

    In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and mini-biography, speculative fiction, prose lyric, outrageous recipe and reconfigured fairy tale, demonstrating yet again the play of an unerring wit overseen by a panoramic intelligence. Good Bones is a cornucopia of good things—precise, witty, wise, and sometimes ... Read more

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  • Autobiography of a Corpse

    Translated by Joanne Turnbull ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the 2014 PEN Translation PrizeWinner of the 2014 Read Russia PrizeThe stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial ... Read more

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  • The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

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  • Oblivion

    This acclaimed twenty-first–century Russian novel is "a Dantean descent" into the abandoned Soviet gulags, written "with a clear poetic sensibility" ( The Wall Street Journal).In Sergei Lebedev's debut novel, an unnamed young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a mysterious neighbor who once saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What ... Read more

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