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  • Obscurity

    by Philippe Jaccottet ...
    Translated by Tess Lewis ...
    Series series The Seagull Library of French Literature
    The story of an intense encounter between two men who were once very close and now must grapple with the fractured ideals that separate them.After several years abroad, a young man returns to his hometown to seek the man he calls master. This master, a brilliant philosopher, had made the young man into a disciple before sending him out into the world to put his teachings into practice. Returning ... Read more

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  • Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

    by Thomas Ligotti ...
    Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own ... Read more

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  • The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa is a deeply introspective and fragmentary work that defies traditional narrative structures, offering instead a mosaic of reflections on identity, solitude, dreams, and the elusive nature of reality. Written under the heteronym Bernardo Soares, the book presents a semi-fictional diary filled with philosophical musings, emotional detachment, and lyrical prose ... Read more

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  • The Book of Disquiet

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    Translated by Richard Zenith ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is a modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time. This complete and unabridged edition – published in Penguin Modern Classics - is edited and translated with an introduction by Richard Zenith'The best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever' - The Guardian<e. ... Read more

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  • The Blind Owl

    by Sadegh Hedayat ...
    Translated by D. P. Costello ...
    An opium addict spirals into madness after losing a mysterious lover in this "extraordinary work" of modern Persian literature ( The Times Literary Supplement, UK).Sadegh Hedayat was Iran's most renowned modern fiction writer, and his spine-tingling novel The Blind Owl is considered his seminal work. A classic of modern Iranian literature, this edition is presented to contemporary audiences with a ... Read more

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  • The Book of Disquiet

    The Complete Edition

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    For the first time—and in the best translation ever—the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparisonThe Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first ... Read more

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  • The Dark Domain

    by Stefan Grabinski ...
    Translated by Miroslaw Lipinski ...
    Dedalus have unearthed a series of aptly decadent titles where elements erotic and grotesque combine. The Dark Domain is a collection of psycho-fantasies, doom-saturated tales of lonely men lost in hostile terrain, but the East European melancholy lifts to provide wonderful odd scenes, like the watchmaker whose death stops all the town clocks and the phantom train that always turns up unannounced, ... Read more

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  • The Three Cornered World

    by Natsume Soseki ...
    The Three Cornered World is the novelistic expression of the contrast between the Western ethical view of reality and the Eastern ethical view by one of Japan's most beloved authors. Natsume Soseki tells of an artist who retreats to a country resort and becomes involved in a series of mysterious encounters with the owner's daughter. Intricately interwoven with the author's reflections on art and ... Read more

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  • Genius Loci

    by Clark Ashton Smith ...
    A Clark Ashton Smith Single....Genius Loci, the spirit of a place… Amberville attempts to capture the genius loci of a strange and haunting place… ... Read more

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  • Three Poems

    by John Ashbery ...
    A provocative, challenging masterpiece by John Ashbery that set a new standard for the modern prose poem"The pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me," John Ashbery has said of this controversial work, a collection of three long prose poems originally published in 1972, adding, " Three Poems tries to stay close to the way we talk and think without expecting what we say ... Read more

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  • Paris Spleen and On Wine and Hashish

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    Translated by Maurice Stang ...
    Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women. Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a ... Read more

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  • Letters to a young woman

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    The Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was an avid letter writer, and more than 7.000 of his letters have survived. One of his best known collection is Rilke's Letter to a young woman, published in 1930. This collection gathers several letters that Rilke wrote to Lisa Heise between 1919 and 1924. Rilke was in his 40s at the time of the first letter; Heise was 26 . Her husband of ... Read more

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