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  • Why Surrealism Matters

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series Why X Matters Series
    An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonateWhy does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist movement in contemporary terms and offers insight into why it continues to inspire makers and consumers ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Impressions of Africa

    by Raymond Roussel ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series French Literature
    In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after bizarre performance—starring, among others, a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, a railway car that rolls on calves' lungs, and fabulous machines that paint, weave, and compose ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthology of Black Humor

    by André Breton ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton’s definitive statement on l’humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in The Anthology of Black Humor are already well known to American readers—Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone," his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? a composite "type"?) fuses with the evocation of a hip new zeitgeist to produce a veritable anthem. In "Ballad ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • Bouvard and Pecuchet

    by Gustave Flaubert, Raymond Queneau ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    In his own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce . . . A book in which I shall spit out my bile." At the center of this book are Bouvard and Pécuchet, two retired clerks who set out in a search for truth and knowledge with persistent optimism in light of the fact that each new attempt at learning about the world ends in disaster.In the literary tradition of Rabelais, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sympathy for the Traitor

    A Translation Manifesto

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Los Olvidados

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Los Olvidados (1950) established Luis Bunuel's reputation as a world-class director. Set in the slums of Mexico City, it follows the crime-filled and violent lives of group of juvenile delinquents. The film exhibits some of Bunuel's recognisable themes of love's yearnings, social injustice, and surrealism, but with a layer of compassion that sets it apart from many of his other films. In 2003, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Pedigree

    A Memoir

    by Patrick Modiano, Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years—shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Murmurs from the Hills

    Rwandan Tales

    by Scholastique Mukasonga ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    **An incantatory, genre-bending collection of tales from Rwanda’s most celebrated memoirist and novelist“Scholastique Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings it to life in all its sparkling multifariousness.” —J. M. Coetzee**For two decades Scholastique Mukasonga has traced the specters of the Rwandan genocide. “That painful History is part of Rwanda,” she writes, but “we mustn’t be ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

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  • Nadja

    by André Breton ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    A new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the surrealism of everyday life.In Paris, during the fall of 1926, André Breton met a young woman from the provinces who called herself Nadja because, she said, "in Russian it's the beginning of the word for ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sister Deborah

    by Scholastique Mukasonga ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    **A sharp and playful critique of colonialism from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature, animated by memories, archival specters, and powerful women“In sentences of great beauty and restraint, Mukasonga rescues a million souls from the collective noun ‘genocide,’ returning them to us as individual human beings.” — Zadie Smith**In a 4-part narrative brimming with historical asides, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bristol

    by Jean Echenoz ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    In this seriocomic noir by a “master magician of the contemporary French novel” (The Washington Post), a low-grade film director is embroiled in troubles involving a rampaging elephant, an African militia, and the mystery of a naked man falling from a window to his death.A naked man plummets from a sixth-story window, nearly flattening Robert Bristol. But Bristol, semi-famous director of B-grade ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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