Deep vellum publishing aug 2012 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A hidden classic of Brazilian literature, 'P's Three Women' is a bonbon laced with slow-acting poison--but delicious nonetheless.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Perversely, but perhaps appropriately, Aidan Higgins--one of the few contemporary writers worthy of comparison with Beckett and Joyce, now celebrating his 85th year--has chosen to wait until his sight has nearly left him to assemble this collection of visual treats. A commonplace book of anecdotes and cartoons--the latter never before published, though familiar to all of Higgins's correspondents from the margins of his letters and postcards--'Blind Man's Bluff' is a compendium of tart and comic insights into sight itself, as well as other varied indignities: personal, historical, and literary.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the defining texts of twentieth-century Catalan fiction, written by one of its most innovative and cherished writers, Salvador Espriu's 'Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth' is a collection of thirty-four short stories in which the twists and turns of action, character, and place are as winding and sumptuous as the legendary maze of its title. Originally published in 1935 in the midst of great countrywide political and social upheaval, these stories are a mirror, a grotesque mirror, held up to Catalan and Spanish society. Infused with a deep sense of mythic power, blending social realism with lush modernist experiment, ' Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth' is a triumph of style. Perhaps best known for his poetry, Espriu's rich lyricism and highly evocative use of the Catalan language are here brought to life in the poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips's remarkable English-language translation of a classic of world literature.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pop artists often get praised or criticized for their use of commercial imagery, and yet their contributions-particularly to literature-are generally ignored in preference to a focus on precisely this sort of 'lowbrow' iconography.