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Although unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and P?cuchet is now considered one of Flaubert's greatest masterpieces. In Flaubert's own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce ...

This "documentary novel," the latest of Estonian author Mati Unt's deadpan and playful works to be translated into English, is about a little-known period in the life of the great Bertolt Brecht,...

This Naoki Prize-winning work is a personal yet precise account of the lives of working women in the Edo period (1600-1868). In the latter half of the Edo period, the warrior caste was finding itself...

A new collection of poems from the AmericanpoetTennesseeReed. From "California Burning 2017-2018" Will smoke days become the West's new snow days? When an early morning dagger of red light cuts...

Centered on an elderly retiree and his intellectual adversary, the shrewd Inspector Lebeda, "Case Closed" is filled with all the expected elements of a thriller--murder, rape, suicide!--but soon...

With an undercurrent of sensual excitement, C?eacute;line paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of society and the human condition. Castle to Castle is the often hilarious account of a...

Caterva (meaning "throng" or "horde") tells the story of seven erudite, homeless, and semi-incompetent radicals traveling from city to city in an attempt to foment a revolution: conspiring with...

This novel paints a fascinating portrait of bohemian culture in Estonia in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The "cavemen" in question are the regulars at the underground (both literally and...

"Century 21," a time machine in literary form, ignores the unity of time, space, and character. This tragicomical idyll of the future past mixes ancient and modern genres: Platonic dialogue and...

In?"Children of Darkness and Light," Mosley takes on what for most novelists has been the most challenging of subjects: a novel directly concerned with religious belief. A middle-aged, burnt-out...

Ordered by two mysterious men to write a statement of about 100 pages, the narrator of Chinese Letter--who's not sure of his name, but calls himself Fritz--faithfully records the bizarre occurrences...

Conceived exactly nine months before the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, the narrator of Christopher Unborn spends the novel waiting to be born. But what kind of...

A man and a woman meet in Lisbon and fall in love. City of Ulysses is their story, and the city's love story besides. It is a story that leads readers down multiple paths, through myth and history,...

The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Cobra (1972) recounts the tale of...

The unbuttoned, unkempt, unlikely fiction of Pierre Siniac is a slap in the face of the traditional crime novel, and The Collaborators is his best and most hilarious book...Author: Pierre...

When John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth's writing was not a response to the realistic fiction that characterized American literature at...

Originally published in Bulgarian as Kontsert za izrechenie by Obsidian Publishers, Sofia, 2008 -- Verso title page.Author: Emilii?a? Dvori?a?nova, Elitza KotzevaPublisher: Dalkey Archive...

Confessions of a Madman personalizes the struggle of a civil war by following the fragmentation and irreversible separation of a single family. Written in alternating flashbacks and descriptions of a...

Spanning fifty years, but with a particular emphasis on post-independence fiction, this collection features a diverse range of styles and voices, offering a window onto a vibrant literary scene that...

Spanning fifty years, this collection brings together stories from nineteen authors from the Republic of Georgia, offering a window onto a vibrant literary scene that has been largely inaccessible to...

The stories that Paul Filev has collected in this anthology of recent Macedonian fiction introduce English-language readers to a literature that has long been overlooked. Ranging from melancholy...

Itself a mixture of idolatry, deft characterization, and critical insight, "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde" is both an entertaining and insightful contribution to our...

In this collection of two novellas and seven short stories, Alf MacLochlainn comically reduces life's problems to the minute details of everyday existence. Socks, shoes, and trousers suggest...

Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks...

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was--as Nicholas Delbanco writes--"world famous in his lifetime," yet now he has been "almost wholly forgotten." Like Delbanco himself, Sally Ormsby Thompson...

A collection of some of Stanley Elkin's best-loved stories, emblematic of his keen eye and comic genius.These nine stories reveal a dazzling variety of styles, tones, and subject matter. Among them...

The definitive reference guide to Mexican literature of the past half-century.Author: Christopher Dominguez MichaelPublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2012Number of Pages: 561...

On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters--from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable...

Curtis White/Milorad Pavić, Vol. 18, No. 2Author: Dalkey Archive PressPublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublication Date: May 01, 1998Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A phantasmagorical mixture of religious mysticism and eroticism, bound up with the mythic origins of civilization, and taking in everything from shamanic art to Bach's "Art of the Fugue."Author:...