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Hölderlin's Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843
One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a …
Pinocchio – The Adventures of a Puppet, Doubly Commented Upon and Triply Illustrated
A richly illustrated analysis from one of Europe’s greatest living philosophers. In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosopher’s eye to the famous nineteenth-century …
The Matter of Language – Abstraction and Poetry
A critical intervention on the relationship between language and matter. If the twentieth century was the century in which language was at the center of thought, the twenty-first …
The Wandering Life – Followed by "Another Era of Writing"
The first English translation of Yves Bonnefoy’s account of his life as a traveler. The Wandering Life is a poetic culmination of Yves Bonnefoy’s wanderings and characterizes the …
Secret Germany – Myth in Twentieth–Century German Culture
An analysis of how a political myth is taken and treated as a metaphor that reflects how a country like Germany built its own destiny. In the decades before the rise of the Third …
Russia Container
An intellectually stimulating yet accessible collection of short vignettes on Russia and Germany by Alexander Kluge. Not just in light of a contested pipeline during the war in …
Save Yourself If You Can – Six Plays
A collection of six Bernhard plays, all in English for the first time.Save Yourself if You Can is a collection of six plays that span the entirety of Thomas Bernhard’s career as a …
The Language of Languages
With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation. Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, …
The Blue Light
The Blue Light is an autobiographical novel in chapters and vignettes that travels through memory, time, and language. Hussein Bargouthi tells his story with Bari, a Turkish …
Critical Essays – Volume 1, 1944–1948
This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second …
The Rest Is Slander – Five Stories
A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. “The cold increases with the clarity,” said Thomas Bernhard …
"La Clarté Notre–Dame" and "The Last Book of the Madrigals"
The last works of the last great classic European poet now available in English. In his 96th and final year, and with the help of the poet José-Flore Tappy, celebrated Swiss poet …