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Mark Polizzotti
An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate
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Patrick Modiano
A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France-a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano
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Scholastique Mukasonga
A new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memoryfrom the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature.
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A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature
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The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano: a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations
Jean Echenoz, Mark Polizzotti
A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master.
A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work…
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in his tenth book published by Yale University Press
A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano
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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…
Paul Virilio,Sylvere Lotringer
Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II.
Los Olvidados (1950) established Luis Bunuel’s reputation as a world-class director. The film exhibits some of Bunuel’s recognisable themes of love’s yearnings, social injustice, and surrealism, but with a layer…
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Poet and theorist, artistic impresario and political agitator, Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and prime mover of Surrealism, from its emergence from Dada after World War I through its…
Examines just what makes the songs so affecting, how they work together as a suite, and how lyrics, melody, and arrangements combine to create an unusually potent mix. This book…
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano’s spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate
Patrick Modiano, Mark Polizzotti (trans.)
A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano has said that his many fictions are all variations of the same story. Pedigree, his memoir, is the theme.
Philippe Djian
In this electrifying psychological drama, two veterans readjusting to civilian life find their friendship tested when ugly truths come to light.
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Andre Breton
L'humour Noir is one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and Breton’s famous anthology is his definitive statement on the subject. It contains assessments of the writers he most admired…
Eric Vuillard
A short, brutal tale by the author of The Order of The Day: the story of a moment in Europe’s history when the poor rose up and banded together behind…
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Jean Echenoz
With his trademark comically wry phrasing and a sure eye for quirky detail, Echenoz has produced his oddest and most enjoyable novel to date. Chopin’s Move interweaves the fates of…
Jean Echenoz,Mark Polizzotti
Max Delmarc is a middle-aged concert pianist with a sharp case of stage fright and something of a drink problem. We follow Max to his untimely death and out into…
Maurice Roche
Compact is the story of a blind man living in a city of his own imagining. Confined to his deathbed, he engages in mental walks through the world’s capitals. Composed…
Marguerite Duras
Story of love and solitude between a young man and a reminiscing writer. Duras’ Death in Venice.
A gripping and compelling fictional account of the key meetings and events which led up to the outbreak of World War Two: how egos flourished, diplomacy failed, and a few…
From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a piercing account of the lesser-known conflict preceding the Vietnam War that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.
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Arthu Rimbaud
This new selection represents about half the major verse poems, half the Illuminations, and the entirety of A Season in Hell, along with most of the known letters by Rimbaud…
Raymond Roussel
The long-awaited new translation of the most dazzling and unclassifiable work of fiction in any language.
Scholastique Mukasonga,Mark Polizzotti
A new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature
Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings it to life in all its…
Celebrated writer Marguerite Duras on the artistic process
An autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - by the 2014 Nobel Laureate
Linda Le
An intensely lively and piquant novel about a Vietnamese family, The Three Fates concerns rivalries and jealousies, strange motives and destructive passions.
Originally published as Libret de famille. A Editions GALLIMARD, Paris, 1977. –Title page verso.
Founder of the Surrealist movement, Andre Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the 20th century’s most innovative and influential poets. Offers the most comprehensive selection available…
Gustave Flaubert
Includes Flaubert’s Dictionary of received ideas.
A gripping fictional account of the key meetings and events which led up the the outbreak of World War Two: how egos flourished, diplomacy failed, and a few powerful men…
Mark Polizzotti (Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn’t.
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Didier Van Cauwelaert
When Martin Harris wakes up from a three-day coma, he returns home to discover that his wife of 10 years no longer recognizes him. Stranger still, she now lives with…
‘I’m Gone’ tells the story of an urbane art and antiques dealer who abandons his wife and career to pursue a memorably pathetic international crime spree.
