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Ce volume s’intéresse aux années charnières de Yoshiharu Tsuge. Les douze histoires qui composent Les fleurs rouges témoignent de l’assurance que cet auteur de trente ans est en train d’acquérir et préfigurent l’évolution qui va suivre, à partir de juin 1968, avec la publication de la fameuse nouvelle Neji shiki dans un numéro spécial que Garo consacre à cet auteur aux portes de la notoriété (voir le volume de l’anthologie intitulé La vis, 1968-1972).

Le style de Tsuge est déjà très affirmé et les histoires présentées dans ce volume sont emblématiques du degré de sophistication mis au point par l’auteur pour témoigner de la profondeur des sentiments humains. On le voit étendre son périmètre et affiner une narration construite sur l’implicite et l’étrangeté des points de vue. Yoshiharu Tsuge ferme ici la porte aux héros pour laisser toute sa place à l’indicible. Il fonde une dramaturgie en rupture avec les codes de l’époque et, poursuivant sa quête d’authenticité, il impressionne ses pairs dans une émulation qui va faire de lui la référence incontournable de sa génération.]]> 264 Yoshiharu Tsuge 2360811568 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.96 1994
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]]> 43659468 378 John Fahey 0982048068 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.54 2000
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]]> 523285 224 Margaret Crosland 0750929561 dajai2345 0 to-read 2.97
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]]> 25352798 The Cremaster Cycle is filled with hundreds of Barney's fantastical images and surveys the project, which uses the biological model of sexual difference as its conceptual departure point. Three essays by Barney experts articulate the series' diverse themes and explore the artist's innovative aesthetic vocabulary; interviews with key collaborators, a composer, costume designer, make-up artist, technicians, and actors reveal his working process. A trailblazing essay by Curator of Contemporary Art Nancy Spector charts Barney's work from the 1990s to the present and provides critical insights into the aesthetic vocabulary of his five Cremaster films, while Neville Wakefield's "Cremaster Glossary" illuminates the films' most far-flung references with citations from sources as diverse as Freud's psychoanalytic studies, Mormon law and lore, and hardcore music fanzines. In addition to stills from the five films—including the final episode, Cremaster 3—the book features related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and storyboards. For anyone intrigued by the Wagner of contemporary art, this is an atlas to his enticingly hypnotic worlds. Barney himself collaborated on all aspects of this extraordinary publication, including the selection of over 700 images, most of them never before published.]]> 76 Nancy Spector 8291430373 dajai2345 0 to-read 5.00 2002
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]]> 1624857 123 Claude Simon 0865380341 dajai2345 5 4.00 1975
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]]> 55526810 237 Yoshiharu Tsuge 2360811835 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.70
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Traduites pour la première fois en français, la publication de cette nouvelle et des six autres qui composent ce volume est un événement majeur. Ce deuxième tome de l’anthologie permet de percevoir toute la richesse d’un auteur incontournable.]]> 188 Yoshiharu Tsuge 2360811665 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.30
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]]> 20149845 Yellow Movie project of the early 1970s. Published to accompany Conrad's recent one-person exhibition at New York's Greene Naftali Gallery and Galerie Bucholz, Cologne, it includes an introductory note by Conrad, a new text by Diedrich Diederichsen and comprehensive documentation of all the Yellow Movies still in existence. Art in America's David Coggins described the project in 2007: "Yellow Movies, a series of works from the early 1970s by pioneering filmmaker Tony Conrad, initially appears to be nothing more than white squares enclosed by black borders painted on large sheets of paper. Yet these casual paintings, roughly the size of old home-movie screens, are formed by latex house paint that slowly yellows over time, creating what are essentially unhurried photographic exposures. Conrad sought to make abstract films that would last a lifetime, and there's a discreet thrill to knowing that what you're seeing is changing, invisibly, before your eyes."]]> 76 Diedrich Diederichsen dajai2345 0 to-read 0.0 2009
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]]> 34196199
Wreckers of Civilisation recalls a time which despite volumes of print remains occluded, obdurate, even that moment before the conservative reconstruction. To be awake in London in the late 1970s was to be plunged into externally manifest in riot, internally within various forms of damage and depression and, if one felt brave or driven, extreme aesthetics. COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle mark the furthest reach of that even more so than Punk, they plunged into a technological and personal examination of the dark side - the forbidden, the taboo, the dystopian future on the doorstep. Today this might seem like science fiction or deliberate shock tactics, but then it seemed like reportage, front line dispatches from a convulsed country.]]> 300 Simon Ford 1911164732 dajai2345 0 to-read 5.00 1999
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]]> 553564 19 William Shakespeare 1885608209 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.36 1609
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]]> 24662122 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch dajai2345 0 to-read 4.00 1907
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]]> 32618570
For the past 20 years, author David Kushner has been exploring these questions, interviewing key players, and providing much-needed answers. The World’s Most Dangerous Geek is a riveting collection of his exclusive reports from the online underworld. We meet a fugitive hacktivist from the notorious collective, Anonymous; a lonely Floridian who hacked the emails of the biggest celebrities in Hollywood; and two artificial intelligence researchers who were both found dead in the same mysterious way.

You will come away from these stories with an appreciation for the awesome power of the Internet both to make fortunes and erase them, to build lives and destroy them.]]> David Kushner dajai2345 0 to-read 3.20 2012
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]]> 19455585 113 Austin Osman Spare 1908694017 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.73 2013
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]]> 22037489 293 D.M. Mitchell 1908694424 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.40 1994
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]]> 53317509
Yoshiharu Tsuge leaves early genre trappings behind, taking a light, humorous approach in these stories based on his own travels. Red Flowers ranges from deep character studies to personal reflections to ensemble comedies set in the hotels and bathhouses of rural Japan. There are irascible old men, drunken gangsters, reflective psychiatric-hospital escapees, and mysterious dogs. Tsuge’s stories are mischievous and tender even as they explore complex relationships and heartache. It’s a world of extreme poverty, tradition, secret fishing holes, and top-dollar koi farming.

The title story highlights the nuance and empathy that made Tsuge’s work stand out from that of his peers. A nameless traveler comes across a young girl running an inn. While showing the traveler where the best fishing hole is, a bratty schoolmate reveals the girl must run the business because her alcoholic father is incapable. At the story’s end, the traveler witnesses an unusual act of kindness from the boy as the girl suffers her first menstrual cramps ― and a simple travelogue takes on unexpected depth.

Red Flowers affirms why Tsuge went on to become one of the most important cartoonists in Japan. These vital comics inspired a wealth of fictionalized memoir from his peers and a desire within the postwar generation to document and understand the diversity of their country’s culture.]]> 284 Yoshiharu Tsuge 1770464344 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.01 1994
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]]> 45892279 The essential early work by the modern master of Japanese literary comics

Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery and adventure stories, Tsuge’s fiction focused on the lives of the citizens of Japan. These mesmerizing comics, like those of his contemporary Yoshihiro Tatsumi, reveal a gritty, at times desperate postwar Japan, while displaying Tsuge’s unique sense of humor and point of view.

“Chirpy” is a simple domestic drama about expectations, fidelity, and escape. A couple purchase a beautiful white bird with a red beak. It is said that the bird will grow attached to its owners and never fly away. While the girlfriend is working as a hostess, flirting with men for money, the boyfriend decides to draw a portrait of the new family member, and disaster strikes.

In “The Swamp,” a simple rural encounter is charged with sexual tension that is alluring but also fraught with danger. When a young woman happens upon a wing-shot goose, she tries to calm it then suddenly snaps its neck. Later, she befriends a young hunter and offers him shelter, but her motivations remain unclear, especially when the hunter notices a snake in the room where they’ll both be sleeping.

The Swamp is a landmark in English manga-publishing history and the first in a series of Tsuge books Drawn & Quarterly will be publishing.]]> 256 Yoshiharu Tsuge 1770463844 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.95 1966
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]]> 40719023 Quello di Tsuge è un neo-realismo con una componente grottesca, morbosa e ossessiva che descrive bene il sentire della generazione nata dopo la Seconda guerra mondiale.
Da una parte il villaggio, emblema della distruzione e della povertà della società giapponese post-bellica; dall'altra il protagonista, perduto in un incubo di straniamento e incomunicabilità che, per il tono distaccato e dimesso, può ricordare il nostro Antonioni.]]> 160 Yoshiharu Tsuge 8885621546 dajai2345 5 3.55 1965
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]]> 50037055 A Japanese manga legend’s autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first full-length work by the great Yoshiharu Tsuge available in the English language.

Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics’ most celebrated and influential artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book ever to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used camera salesman, ferryman, and stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with.

Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan. Accompanied by an essay from translator Ryan Holmberg that discusses Tsuge’s importance in comics and Japanese literature, The Man Without Talent is one of the great works of comics literature.]]> 240 Yoshiharu Tsuge 1681374439 dajai2345 5 4.04 1986
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]]> 12970735 The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945, and The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the Present, this collection offers a concise yet remarkably rich introduction to the fiction, poetry, drama, and essays of Japan's modern encounter with the West. Spanning a period of exceptional invention and transition, this volume is not only a critical companion to courses on Japanese literary and intellectual development but also an essential reference for scholarship on Japanese history, culture, and interactions with the East and West.

The first half covers the three major styles of literary expression that informed Japanese writing and performance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: classical Japanese fiction and drama, Chinese poetry, and Western literary representation and cultural critique. Their juxtaposition brilliantly captures the social, intellectual, and political challenges shaping Japan during this period, particularly the rise of nationalism, the complex interaction between traditional and modern forces, and the encroachment of Western ideas and writing. The second half conveys the changes that have transformed Japan since the end of the Pacific War, such as the heady transition from poverty to prosperity, the friction between conflicting ideologies and political beliefs, and the growing influence of popular culture on the country's artistic and intellectual traditions. Featuring sensitive translations of works by Nagai Kafu, Natsume Soseki, Oe Kenzaburo, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, and many others, this anthology relates an essential portrait of Japan's dynamic modernization.]]> 896 J. Thomas Rimer 0231157231 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.30 2011
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Organized chronologically and by genre within each period, the volume reveals the major influences in the development of modern Japanese literature: the Japanese classics themselves, the example of Chinese poetry, and the encounter with Western literature and culture. Modern Japanese writers reread the classics of Japanese literature, infused them with contemporary language, and refashioned them with an increased emphasis on psychological elements. They also reinterpreted older aesthetic concepts in light of twentieth-century mentalities. While modern ideas captured the imagination of some Japanese writers, the example of classical Chinese poetry remained important for others. Meiji writers continued to compose poetry in classical Chinese and adhere to a Confucian system of thought. Another factor in shaping modern Japanese literature was the example of foreign works, which offered new literary inspiration and opportunities for Japanese readers and writers.

Divided into four chapters, the anthology begins with the early modern texts of the 1870s, continues with works written during the years of social change preceding World War I and the innovative writing of the interwar period, and concludes with texts from World War II. Each chapter includes a helpful critical introduction, situating the works within their literary, political, and cultural contexts. Additionally, there are biographical introductions for each writer.]]> 863 J. Thomas Rimer 0231118600 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.39 2005
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Organized chronologically and by genre within each period, readings include fiction by Hayashi Fumiko and Oe Kenzaburo; poems by Ayukawa Nobuo, Katsura Nobuko, and Saito Fumi; plays by Mishima Yukio and Shimizu Kunio; and a number of essays, among them Eto Jun on Natsume Soseki and his brilliant novel Kokoro (The Heart of Things), and Kawabata Yasunari on the shape of his literary career and the enduring influence of classical Japanese literature.

Some authors train a keen eye on the contemporary world, while others address the historical past and its relationship to modern culture. Some adopt an even broader scope and turn to European models for inspiration, while others look inward, exploring psychological and sexual terrain in new, often daring ways. Spanning almost six decades, this anthology provides a thorough introduction to a profound period of creative activity.]]> 841 J. Thomas Rimer 0231138040 dajai2345 5 4.35 2007
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]]> 6641317 •One of Japan's most influential authors of contemporary literature.
•Winner of the Mainichi Art Award.
•A quiet reflection of the coming to terms of life and death.
SYNOPSIS
This novel is the record of the daily experiences of a man approaching old age. It delves into the essential but hidden nature of his daily life, employing prose that is relentless in its re-creation of detail. Each scene is recorded in such minuteness that the novel sometimes leaves the impression that it has gone beyond the bounds of reality. "I", the protagonist, cannot sleep, so he goes to the hospital where he is receiving treatment. There he meets a young man with a broken leg. Without being asked, the young man begins to relate episodes about deaths that have occurred in his family. In a nearby park, he then meets a man with white hair like his own. It turns out that this man is Fujisato, a high school classmate from over forty years ago. He, Fujisato and another friend get together frequently after that, and as he interacts with
these friends, he begins to recall incidents connected with life and death in his own past: the suicide of a classmate in high school; the frenzy of trying to escape the flames during the fire bombings; his parents' deaths; the death of a friend's girlfriend; the almost daily reports of the deaths of people he has known; and so on. It is virtually a dialogue with the dead, belonging neither to this real world nor to any dream world. Then Fujisato relates to "I" how he had had one particularly difficult period, just before reaching retirement, when he went mad. "I" wonders if it is possible that people go mad as they approach old age. Are his dialogues with the dead a sign of madness? On the other hand, he hears that his young friend with the broken leg will soon be blessed with a baby. Sanity and insanity, life and death, stretching back into the past and forward into the future, appear in the strangely cheerful lives of these aging men.]]> 275 Yoshikichi Furui 1929280467 dajai2345 5 4.09 2007
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]]> 55737838
Leading intellectual historian Jonathan Israel shows how the radical ideas in the early Marx's writings were influenced by this legacy, which, he argues, must be understood as part of the Radical Enlightenment. He traces the rise of a Jewish revolutionary tendency demanding social equality and universal human rights throughout the Western world. Israel considers how these writers understood Jewish marginalization and ghettoization and the edifice of superstition, prejudice, and ignorance that sustained them. He investigates how the quest for Jewish emancipation led these thinkers to formulate sweeping theories of social and legal reform that paved the way for revolutionary actions that helped change the world from 1789 onward―but hardly as they intended.]]> 560 Jonathan I. Israel 0295748664 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.60
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The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if often concealed, impact on the international intellectual scene and on the early Enlightenment than philosophers, historians, and political theorists have conventionally tended to recognize. Europe-wide efforts to prevent the reading public and university students learning about Spinoza, the man and his work, in the years immediately after his death in 1677, dominated much of his early
reception owing to the revolutionary implications of his thought for philosophy, religion, practical ethics and lifestyle, Bible criticism, and political theory. Nevertheless, contrary to what has sometimes been maintained, his general impact was immediate, very widespread, and profound. One of the main
objectives of the book is to show how early and how deeply Leibniz, Bayle, Arnauld, Henry More, Anne Conway, Richard Baxter, Robert Boyle, Henry Oldenburg, Pierre-Daniel Huet, Richard Simon, and Nicholas Steno, among many others, were affected by and led to wrestle with his principal ideas.

There have been surprisingly few biographies of Spinoza, given his fundamental importance in intellectual history and history of philosophy, Bible criticism, and political thought. Jonathan I. Israel has written a biography which provides more detail and context about Spinoza's life, family, writings, circle of friends, highly unusual career and networking, and early reception than its predecessors. Weaving the circumstances of his life and thought into a detailed biography has also led to
several notable instances of nuancing or revising our notions of how to interpret certain of his assertions and philosophical claims, and how to understand the complex international reaction to his work during his life-time and in the years immediately following his death.]]> 1335 Jonathan I. Israel 0192599437 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.43 2023
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Spinoza commenced this treatise with the intention of examining the problem of knowledge, but the work was never completed. In his other works epistemological discussions are intimately linked with the rest of his philosophy. Indeed, even in the Treatise on the Improvement of the Understanding epistemological views are almost inseparably connected with ethical ones. That is the consequence of his characteristic conception of knowledge. For Spinoza "knowledge" is "life", not in the sense that contemplation is the highest life, but in the sense that knowledge is the means of holding together the threads of life in a systematic unity that can fill its proper place in the cosmic system.]]> 53 Baruch Spinoza dajai2345 5 3.75 1667
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While Spinoza’s Ethics covers theology, anthropology or ontology and metaphysics, he chose the term “ethics” because he posits that happiness comes from a liberation from superstition and passions. In other words, ontology is seen as a way to demystify the world and enable man to live according to reason.

Ethics is indeed the best summary of Spinoza’s philosophy.

(From http://www.the-philosophy.com/)]]> 266 Baruch Spinoza dajai2345 5 4.15 1677
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The story is very surreal and deranged in an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of way. The art style is quite original and seems influenced by European comics, in particular the likes of Jean Giraud.]]> 473 Toyokazu Matsunaga 4091884431 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.80 2005
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]]> 6324750 Book by Matsunaga, Toyokazu 264 Toyokazu Matsunaga 1591160014 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.84 2002
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]]> 6004646 256 Toyokazu Matsunaga 1569316368 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.06 2001
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]]> 9297955 264 Toyokazu Matsunaga 156931540X dajai2345 5 4.03 2001
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]]> 10756521 240 Keiichi Koike 2723478157 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.04 2009
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The main character is Kabu, a little peddler and heavy addicted. Used to any kind of hallucinogenic trip, he is able to feel the happiness through the ecstasy of the drug, while on the same time hypocritically hating those who gave birth to that society which has forced him to the excess. After an overdose caused by mixing two incompatible drugs, he spends his days looking for stimulants until he encounters an enigmatic man who offers him a new kind of illegal substance: Ultra Heaven. From that moment his incredible journey begins, where dream and reality are fused in an undivided world, causing him hysterical or joyful reactions and unrestrained pains.]]> 180 Keiichi Koike 2723459934 dajai2345 5 4.27 2002
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]]> 52886695
Contains these
KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR
3,000 Leagues in Search of Mother
Lazarus Franco's 4 A.M.
The Ronin and the Sea
Looper
Kenbo's Diary
Sponge Generation
Airway
Stereo Scope
Horizon
Landed]]> 200 Keiichi Koike 0867198818 dajai2345 5 3.74
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]]> 2782549 The Ship is a unique book. Reading it is like listening to the silence in the public squares painted by Giorgio de Chirico. Like Chirico, Jahnn is a master of the eerie and the inexplicable. It would be presumptuous to explain the fable contained in these pages; its meaning will differ from reader to reader. Yet it is obvious that the author intended us to know that our hold on reality is at best a treacherous delusion.

When Gustav bent down to retrieve the suitcase he had so thoughtlessly kicked under the berth, he found that where a wall should have been there was no wall but only infinite space. Since this three-masted ship had been designed by a competent Scot, Gustav was puzzled. But he had only begun to be bewildered. Locked doors sprang open at the touch of an invisible hand, and the supercargo was unwilling to dispel anxiety with an answer. With microphones placed at strategic points throughout the ship, the supercargo spied on everyone, angrily insisting that no member of the crew should attempt to fathom the nature of the cargo.

When Gustav’s fiancee vanished, Gustav acted less like a hero than a victim of a nightmare. The Ship itself is a nightmare, contrived by a writer with an iron will.]]> 210 Hans Henny Jahnn dajai2345 0 to-read 4.12 1949
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He has been only rarely translated into English, whereas in France his works have been compared to Antonin Artaud and Georges Bataille. This selection includes three of his 13 Uncanny Tales and the whole of his novella The Night of Lead, which nowadays is without doubt his most renowned work in Germany.]]> 176 Hans Henny Jahnn 1900565595 dajai2345 5 4.29 2012
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]]> 41495 342 Antonin Artaud 1878972189 dajai2345 5 4.26 1995
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]]> 69970
Excerpted from a review at Amazon.com]]> 169 Marguerite Duras 0394750268 dajai2345 5 3.61 1965
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]]> 10004 Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.

From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that she is perfectly healthy, her bewildered husband realizes that things are not as they should be. His covert explorations reveal that the enormous hospital she was taken to is home to a network of constant surveillance, outlandish sex experiments, and an array of very odd and even violent characters. Within a few days, though no closer to finding his wife, the unnamed narrator finds himself appointed the hospital’s chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he’s a horse. With its nightmarish vision of modern medicine and modern life, Secret Rendezvous is another masterpiece from Japan’s most gifted and original writer of serious fiction.]]> 179 Kōbō Abe 0375726543 dajai2345 5 3.52 1977
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]]> 2794 The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness, and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49.]]> 152 Thomas Pynchon dajai2345 5 3.70 1966
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]]> 415 776 Thomas Pynchon 0143039946 dajai2345 5 4.01 1973
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]]> 12395 Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.]]> 453 Louis-Ferdinand Céline 0811216543 dajai2345 5 4.22 1932
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]]> 106096 Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called "creative confessions," they told of the author's childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of service in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing unmitigated despair with Gargantuan comedy, they also created a new style, in which invective and obscenity were laced with phrases of unforgettable poetry. Céline's influence revolutionized the contemporary approach to fiction. Under a cloud for a period, his work is now acknowledged as the forerunner of today's "black comedy."

Death on the Installment Plan is the story of young Ferdinand's first 18 years. His life is one of hatred, of the grinding struggle of small shopkeepers to survive, of childhood sensations and fantasies—lusty, scatological, violent, but also poetic. There is a running battle with his ineffectual insurance clerk of a father, with his mother, who lives and whines around the junkshop she runs for the boys benefit; there is also the superbly funny Meanwell College in England, where the boy went briefly, a Dickensian, nightmare institution. Always there is humiliation, failure, and boredom, at least until he teams up with the "scientist" des Pereires. This inventor, con-man, incorrigible optimist—whose last project is to grow enormous potatoes by electricity—rescues him, if only temporarily; for the reader he is one of the most lovable charlatans in French literature.]]> 592 Louis-Ferdinand Céline 0811200175 dajai2345 5 4.25 1936
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]]> 15581
Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style. and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as "one of the great novelists of our century."

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) wrote three other novels. Trans-Atlantyk. Pornografia. and Cosmos. which together with his plays and his three-volume Diary have been translated into more than thirty languages.]]> 320 Witold Gombrowicz 0300082401 dajai2345 5 3.76 1937
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]]> 29633619
Described by Jonathan Lethem as "one of the great secret masters" of contemporary American literature, Stephen Dixon is at the height of his form in these uncanny and virtuoso fictions.

With Late Stories , master stylist Dixon returns with a collection exploring the elision of memory and reality in the wake of loss.]]> 327 Stephen Dixon 1940430879 dajai2345 5 3.98
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]]> 1783505 254 Claude Simon 0807611573 dajai2345 5 3.60 1957
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]]> 57235904 Samuel Beckett dajai2345 5 3.60 1966
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]]> 54042 Malone Dies is the second of his immediate post-war novels, written during what Beckett later referred to as ‘the siege in the room’.

‘Malone’, writes Malone, ‘is what I am called now.’ On his deathbed, whittling away the time with stories and revisions of stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is contradictory and intermittent, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of darker rages than his precursor Molloy. Malone promises silence, but as a storyteller he delivers irresistibly more.]]> 127 Samuel Beckett 0802151175 dajai2345 5 3.94 1951
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]]> 446542 241 Samuel Beckett 0802151361 dajai2345 5 4.07 1951
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]]> 12279 512 Samuel Beckett 0375400702 dajai2345 5 4.30 1958
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]]> 7170128 The Story of the Eye, Delany's Hogg, and Cooper's Frisk. For BABYFUCKER is, as Dennis Cooper says: "a stunning, exquisite, perfect, and difficult little benchmark of a novel that makes literature that predates it seem deprived."

Fiction. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German by Peter Smith.]]> 134 Urs Allemann 1934254169 dajai2345 5 3.57 1992
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]]> 40848854 S’appuyant sur une vaste documentation inédite et de très nombreux témoignages, et forte d’une connaissance intime des textes, Catherine Brun offre, dans une synthèse unique de l’enquête biographique et de l’analyse littéraire, les clés indispensables pour entrer dans cette œuvre qui, de Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats et Éden, Éden, Éden à Progénitures, n’a jamais cessé de fasciner, de scandaliser et de bouleverser. Quarante ans de combat pour une écriture devenue langue, puis verbe, mais aussi d’un constant engagement dans le siècle. Une vie et une création portées par le même inlassable mouvement, en transformation permanente, et dont chacun verra avec évidence, au terme de ce passionnant récit, qu’elles constituent une aventure humaine, intellectuelle et artistique essentielle à notre temps.
Catherine Brun, née en 1966, est maître de conférences à l’université Paris III (Sorbonne nouvelle). Elle travaille depuis quinze ans sur l’œuvre de Pierre Guyotat. Elle prépare un livre sur la guerre d’Algérie au théâtre.]]> 766 Catherine Brun 2756107727 dajai2345 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 5547739 That Mad Ache, set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960’s, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between her carefree, tranquil love for 50-year-old Charles, a gentle, reflective, and well-off businessman, and her sudden wild passion for 30-year-old Antoine, a hot-blooded, impulsive, and struggling editor. As Lucile explores these two versions of love, she vacillates in confusion, but in the end she must choose, and her heart’s instinct is surprising and poignant. Originally published under the title La Chamade, this new translation by Douglas Hofstadter returns a forgotten classic to English.

In Translator, Trader, Douglas Hofstadter reflects on his personal act of devotion in rewriting Françoise Sagan’s novel La Chamade in English, and on the paradoxes that constantly plague any literary translator on all scales, ranging from the humblest of commas to entire chapters. Flatly rejecting the common wisdom that translators are inevitably traitors, Hofstadter proposes instead that translators are traders, and that translation, like musical performance, deserves high respect as a creative act. In his view, literary translation is the art of making subtle trades in which one sometimes loses and sometimes gains, often both losing and gaining at the same time. This view implies that there is no reason a translation cannot be as good as the original work, and that the result inevitably bears the stamp of the translator, much as a musical performance inevitably bears the stamp of its artists. Both a companion to the beloved Sagan novel and a singular meditation on translation, Translator, Trader is a witty and intimate exploration of words, ideas, communication, creation, and faithfulness.]]> 311 Françoise Sagan dajai2345 0 to-read 3.98 1965
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]]> 2127254 The artistic journey of a renowned graphic designer and artist.A pioneer of Japanese graphic design in the 1960s and 1970s, Tadanori Yokoo first became known through his posters and illustrations. A number of artists, including Issey Miyake and the writer Yukio Mishima, spotted his talent and requested his collaboration.In the early 1980s, painting became the art form through which Tadanori uncompromisingly began to explore various subjects rooted in personal and collective memories, such as life, death, society, sex, and religion. Impervious to criticism, bent on giving inspiration full rein, he never shrank from shocking his contemporaries as he varied stylistic and thematic approaches. Published to accompany a French exhibition, the book includes recent paintings as well as older work. 100 color illustrations.]]> 156 Daidō Moriyama 0500976627 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.27 1998
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]]> 31122530 1215 Maurice Girodias 160872641X dajai2345 0 to-read 3.00 1965
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]]> 248193
Le ton beau de Marot” literally means ”The sweet tone of Marot”, but to a French ear it suggests ”Le tombeau de Marot”—that is, ”The tomb of Marot”. That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in English—jumping through two tough hoops at once. In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translators—even three state-of-the-art translation programs!—to try their hand at this subtle challenge.

The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of Le Ton beau de Marot, for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.

Not merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry—but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.

Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin , Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye , Villon's Ballades, Nabokov’s essays, Georges Perec's La Disparition, Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, Horace's odes, and more.

Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today’s computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.

Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.]]> 632 Douglas R. Hofstadter 0465086454 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.24 1995
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]]> 25589805 77 Eugène Savitzkaya dajai2345 0 to-read 4.00 2003
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]]> 1225040
Le roman comme recherche (1955)
Intervention à Royaumont (1959)
Le roman et la poésie
L'espace du roman
'Philosophie de l'ameublement'
L'usage des pronoms personels dans le roman
Individu et groupe dans le roman
Recherches sur la technique du roman
Sur la page
Le livre comme objet
Sur la déclaration dite 'des 121'
Le critique et son public
Réponses à 'Tel Quel']]> 196 Michel Butor 2070725022 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.95 1969
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]]> 52859673 poche. Broché. 192 Maurice Roche dajai2345 0 to-read 3.00
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]]> 17311933 317 Shūji Terayama 4041315077 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.00 1967
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]]> 12969369 434 Marquis de Sade dajai2345 0 to-read 3.64 1799
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]]> 1648769 64 Samuel Beckett 0714509655 dajai2345 5 3.53 1970
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]]> 45016895 234 Arnaud Rykner 202055092X dajai2345 0 to-read 0.0 1991
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]]> 28440710 133 Iannis Xenakis 1576471896 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.33 1994
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]]> 34889149 My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1957 to 1963, Eric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. Such brilliance does not develop in a vacuum, and Rohmer cultivated a fascinating network of friends, colleagues, and industry contacts that kept his outlook sharp and propelled his work forward. Despite his privacy, he cared deeply about politics, religion, culture, and fostering a public appreciation of the medium he loved.

This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests and relations. The filmmaker kept in close communication with his contemporaries and competitors: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette. He held a paradoxical fascination with royalist politics, the fate of the environment, Catholicism, classical music, and the French nightclub scene, and his films were regularly featured at New York and Los Angeles film festivals. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this definitive volume.]]> 608 Antoine de Baecque 0231175590 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.18 2014
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]]> 39105311
Hilma af Klint studied at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm where she was part of the first generation of female students.  Up until the beginning of the century, she painted mainly landscapes and detailed botanical studies. Her work from this period was that of a young artist of her time who meticulously observed the world around her. But, like many of her contemporaries, af Klint was also interested in the invisible relationships that shape our world, believing strongly in a spiritual dimension. She joined the Theosophical Society, and, with four fellow female members who together called themselves “The Five,” began to study mediumship.  Between 1906 and 1915, purportedly guided by a higher power, af Klint created 193 individual works that, in both scale and scope of imagery, are like no other art created at that time.  Botanically inspired images and mystical symbols, diagrams, words, and geometric series, all form part of af Klint’s abstract language. These abstract techniques would not be seen again until years later.

Notes and Methods presents facsimile reproductions of a wide array of af Klint’s early notebooks accompanied by the first English translation of af Klint’s extensive writings. It contains the rarely seen “Blue Notebooks,” hand-painted and annotated catalogues af Klint created of her most famous series “Paintings for the Temple,” and a dictionary compiled by af Klint of the words and letters found in her work. This extraordinary collection is edited by and copublished with Christine Burgin, and features an introduction by Iris Müller-Westermann. It will stand as an important and timely contribution to the legacy of Hilma af Klint.]]> 288 Hilma af Klint 022659193X dajai2345 0 to-read 4.59
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]]> 52489053
A groundbreaking artist, Alice Trumbull Mason (1904-1971) was one of the earliest painters of the twentieth century to embrace abstract painting in America. Mason's early paintings have been compared to those of Gorky, Kandinsky, and Miró, and in 1936 she became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and one of its leaders in the promotion of abstract work by artists such as Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Piet Mondrian, and many others. Mason was a true artist's artist whose efforts helped lead to the great movements of later twentieth-century art, such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Post-Modernism, and Conceptual Art.

Alice Trumbull Mason features essays that illuminate and contextualize the artist's multifaceted work and personal life through her paintings, prints, poetry, and letters. The book reveals the full life story of a seminal abstractionist, making a sound argument for adding her to the annals of great twentieth-century artists.]]> 256 Elisa Wouk Almino 0847866998 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.67
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]]> 58525324
• With images of the original letters

• Enlightening study of two 20th century artists

In April 1941 Charmion von Wiegand (1896-1983), an American journalist and artist, met Piet Mondrian for an interview. From this very first meeting, a deep friendship and working relationship developed; she translated Mondrian's texts into English and edited them, discussed art and philosophy with him, and played a part in the evolution of many of the works he created up to his death in 1944. The artist's memoirs of their encounters and their comprehensive correspondence have now been published in full for the very first time. The texts portray a relationship fluctuating between burning affection and distant friendship, tenderness and harsh rejection, openness and reticence. A relationship that has left behind clear traces in Charmion von Wiegand's life and works - far beyond Mondrian's death. Nothing is the same as it once was!]]> 200 Martin Brauen dajai2345 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 59235626
Charmion von Wiegand started painting figuratively in 1926, when she received encouragement from her friend and painter, Joseph Stella. After being hired as an American reporter based in Soviet Moscow from 1929 to 1932, von Wiegand established herself as a preeminent art critic who embraced progressive ideas. She moved back to New York City in 1932 and became immersed in the avant-garde movement. Von Wiegand developed a close circle of friends including Hans Richter, Carl Holty, and John Graham. In 1941, when she met and befriended Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, she changed her painting style completely and was finally considered an artist in her own right. Highly influenced by his work, von Wiegand became interested in combining abstraction, Theosophy, and Eastern religions including her adoptive religion, Buddhism. The result was modern geometric abstract paintings that were imbued with Eastern imagery. This comprehensive volume on von Wiegand showcases gloriously illustrated works from all phases of her career. It also contains insightful essays and an array of previously unpublished material from the artist's archives, including correspondence with Mondrian.]]> 128 Maja Wismer 3791359754 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 58318142
Throughout his career, Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) transformed everyday homewares into extraordinary experiments in abstract art. Nicholson’s studio was filled with objects that inspired him. From patterned mocha-ware jugs and cut glass goblets to spanners, hammers and chisels, these ordinary personal possessions were a source of almost endless inspiration to the artist. This book brings together for the first time Nicholson’s paintings, reliefs, prints and drawings alongside his rarely seen personal possessions and studio tools. It traces how the artist’s style developed, from his early traditional tabletop still lifes to his later abstract works. Still life was at the heart of Nicholson’s artistic practice. Through these humble items, he began to experiment with form and color. His early works in particular owed inspiration to his father, the painter William Nicholson. The book traces the artistic and personal influences on Nicholson’s evolutionary still life style from the 1920s to the 1970s. It explores his time with Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, as well as his encounters with other Modernist greats, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.

Distributed for Pallant House Gallery]]> 136 Lee Beard 1869827775 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 43123979 160 Lee Beard 1848222416 dajai2345 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 2143513 This book shows how Nicholson's personality contrasted strongly with the austere image projected by both himself and his critics. His was a quixotic character, obsessed with ball-games and word play, a sartorial dandy whose life entailed a succession of triangular relationships in which he either strung along two women - most notably the painter Winifred Nicholson and the sculptress Barbara Hepworth - or dallied with other men's wives. It also comes as a revelation that much of his life and work was informed by his belief in Christian Science. Drawing on substantial archive material coupled with interviews with colleagues, friends and family, Checkland has provided an account not only of Nicholson's life but also of his friendships - and feuds - with many of the biggest names in twentieth-century art.]]> 497 Sarah Jane Checkland 071955456X dajai2345 0 to-read 3.80 2000
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]]> 54086 268 Gordon S. Armstrong 0838751415 dajai2345 0 to-read 5.00 1990
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]]> 17033049 176 Tom Smart 0889843600 dajai2345 0 to-read 5.00 2013
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]]> 53353646 0 Jack (subject) Chambers 1897215339 dajai2345 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 12381113 240 Dennis Reid 0864926456 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.00 2011
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]]> 3778184 256 Kathryn Elder 0968296947 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.83 2002
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In the 1980s and ’90s, Dwoskin turned to making personal documentaries about disability and diaspora, including Ballet Black (1986) and the autobiographical Trying to Kiss the Moon (1994). Then in the 2000s, increasingly limited in his movements, but liberated from the demands of patrons, he returned to the underground, and to his erotic obsessions, making a series of digital works culminating in The Sun and the Moon (2008), described by Raymond Bellour as an ‘absolute masterpiece’.

Over the course of his half-century-long career, Dwoskin’s path crossed with those of J. G. Ballard, the Ballets Nègres, Bill Brandt, Gavin Bryars, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Ron Geesin, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, and Andy Warhol.

DWOSKINO. The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin is the culmination of a three year research project, The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin, at the University of Reading where his archive is housed. The book is a unique visual distillation of Dwoskin’s life and times, with hundreds of never-seen-before images taken from his archive, and texts by among others Laura Mulvey, Raymond Bellour, Raymond Durgnat, and Dwoskin himself.]]> Rachel Garfield dajai2345 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 2404613 128 Stephen Dwoskin 0912292997 dajai2345 0 to-read 0.0 1993
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]]> 2404612 272 Stephen Dwoskin 0879510722 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.38
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]]> 2281453 124 Jane Arden 0905150082 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.17
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]]> 616953 204 Machi Tawara 0870119206 dajai2345 5 4.15 1987
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]]> 12083
The play is autobiographical, and O'Neill draws his drug-addicted mother, his close-fisted father, his drunken and degenerate elder brother, and his tormented self, with terrifying veracity.]]> 179 Eugene O'Neill 0300093055 dajai2345 5 4.06 1956
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]]> 8248253 Softcover Book 664 Rob Young 0571237525 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.19 2010
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]]> 21546004 Knorr was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the 1960s, completing her education in Paris and London. She has taught, exhibited, and lectured internationally, including at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The University of Westminster, Goldsmiths, Harvard and The Art Institute of Chicago. She studied at the University of Westminster in the mid-1970s, exhibiting photography that addressed debates in cultural studies and film theory concerning the 'politics of representation' practices which emerged during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is currently Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey.]]> 160 Rosa Maria Falvo 8857222357 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.00 2014
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Lumia presents a long-overdue reevaluation of the groundbreaking artist Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968), whose unprecedented works prefigured light art in America. As early as , many years before the advent of consumer television and video technology, Wilfred began experimenting with light as his primary artistic medium, developing the means to control and project unique compositions of colorful, undulating light forms, which he referred to collectively as lumia . Manifested as both live performances on a cinematic scale and self-contained structures, Wilfred’s innovative displays captivated audiences and influenced generations of artists to come. This publication, the first dedicated to Wilfred in over forty years, draws on the artist’s personal archives and includes a number of insightful essays that trace the development of his work and its relation to his cultural milieu. Featuring a foreword by the celebrated artist James Turrell, Lumia helps to secure Wilfred’s rightful place within the canon of modern art.
 


Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

Exhibition Yale University Art Gallery
(02/17/17–07/23/17) Smithsonian American Art Museum
(10/06/17–01/07/18)]]> 172 Keely Orgeman 0300215185 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.33
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]]> 5313089 140 Michael Betancourt 0809556715 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.50 2006
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The forest has been seen traditionally as a dark place, and a place of dark deeds, and this is certainly true of the area surrounding Kolomyia, in Ukraine, where these works were made. It was here that appalling atrocities were perpetrated by the Nazis and Ukrainian collaborators upon the local Jewish population, Gersht's, father, father-in-law, and brother amongst them. It is in this personal connection that can be found the genesis of this work, a meditation upon memory and meaning.

Published to coincide with an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery, London, this book, with essays by Jeremy Millar and Steven Bode, explores the representation of history and catastrophe in photography, film and literature, and the possibility-or impossibility-of bearing witness to such events. A major new publication on one of the most thought-provoking young artists in Britain today, this book will appeal to those concerned with the importance of remembrance, and in the representation of history and place in contemporary culture.]]> 96 Ori Gersht 1904270212 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.00 2005
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]]> 56931505 “I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words that talking openly can’t handle.”

For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first novel in ten years, Dennis Cooper writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it fails to capture them. Candid and powerful, I Wished is a radical work of shifting forms. It includes appearances by Santa Claus, land artist James Turrell, sentient prairie dogs, John Wayne Gacy, Nick Drake, and George, the muse for Cooper’s acclaimed novels Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period, collectively known as “The George Miles Cycle.” In revisiting the inspiration for the Cycle, Dennis has written a masterwork: the most raw, personal, and haunted book of his career.]]> 136 Dennis Cooper 1641293047 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.98 2021
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]]> 33841357 120 Manfred Mohr 3944669169 dajai2345 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 16640 149 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0812969901 dajai2345 0 to-read 3.72 1774
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]]> 45444277 482 Yana Tyulkova dajai2345 0 to-read 4.58
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]]> 49075100 Aline and Valcour is a sprawling and intellectually sweeping work. Unlike 120 Days of Sodom, the famous scroll that lay concealed in his cell as he wrote, while not pornographic, Aline and Valcour embodies the multiple themes and ideas that would become the hallmark of Sade’s far more sulfurous Juliette and Philosophy in the Bedroom.

Ostensibly an epistolary novel, Aline and Valcour actually combines genres, interweaving the adventure story, libertine novel, and the novel of feelings out of which emerges a unitary tale enlivened by complex and carefully nuanced characters. Turbulence and turpitude disrupt virtuous peoples’ lives as libertines work evil schemes and incestuous designs upon them that don’t stop with abduction and seduction; its protagonists face obstacles to love and harsh threats imposed by crime upon traditional morality and religion. Embedded within Aline and Valcour are sojourns in two exotic lands in Africa and the South Seas: Butua, a brutal cannibalistic dystopia, and Tamoé, a utopian paradise headed by a philosopher-king. In Butua, a brutal chief and priesthood rule over a cowed and doomed populace, and the most atrocious crimes are committed in broad daylight, while in Tamoé, happiness and prosperity flourish amidst benevolent anarchy. Sade infuses his novel with a sort of philosophical anthropology that prefigures not just Karl Marx and the 19th century utopian socialists, but Claude Levi-Strauss and Michel Foucault. Dark humor and social satire echo throughout.

Sade’s inspirations for Aline and Valcour, which signal his ambition for what he subtitled “the philosophical novel,” include an array of novels in addition to Richardson’s epistolary Pamela, Rousseau’s best-selling Julie, Laclos’ Les liaisons dangereuses, Gulliver’s Travels, and Don Quixote. Aline and Valcour also owes a special debt to the ancient Roman poet Lucretius, whose Epicurean and materialist philosophy lends it a contemporary feel wholly missing from many 18th century novels.

Although not sexually explicit, Aline and Valcour shared the fate of Sade’s other works — banned in 1815, in 1825 it was entered onto the French government’s list of prohibited works. Published clandestinely, it was Man Ray’s favorite Sadean novel, and during WWII, the surrealist Radovan Ivšić traded half his library for a single copy. It did not appear in bookstores until after WWII, when Jean-Jacques Pauvert undertook publication of a new edition of Sade’s works and eventually succeeded in overcoming more than a century of censorship. It has remained continuously in print in France and today forms part of the first volume of the Pléiade edition.

This is the very first rendering of the book into English since its publication in 1795.]]> 488 Marquis de Sade 1940625335 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.44 1795
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]]> 49075007 Aline and Valcour is a sprawling and intellectually sweeping work. Unlike 120 Days of Sodom, the famous scroll that lay concealed in his cell as he wrote, while not pornographic, Aline and Valcour embodies the multiple themes and ideas that would become the hallmark of Sade’s far more sulfurous Juliette and Philosophy in the Bedroom.

Ostensibly an epistolary novel, Aline and Valcour actually combines genres, interweaving the adventure story, libertine novel, and the novel of feelings out of which emerges a unitary tale enlivened by complex and carefully nuanced characters. Turbulence and turpitude disrupt virtuous peoples’ lives as libertines work evil schemes and incestuous designs upon them that don’t stop with abduction and seduction; its protagonists face obstacles to love and harsh threats imposed by crime upon traditional morality and religion. Embedded within Aline and Valcour are sojourns in two exotic lands in Africa and the South Seas: Butua, a brutal cannibalistic dystopia, and Tamoé, a utopian paradise headed by a philosopher-king. In Butua, a brutal chief and priesthood rule over a cowed and doomed populace, and the most atrocious crimes are committed in broad daylight, while in Tamoé, happiness and prosperity flourish amidst benevolent anarchy. Sade infuses his novel with a sort of philosophical anthropology that prefigures not just Karl Marx and the 19th century utopian socialists, but Claude Levi-Strauss and Michel Foucault. Dark humor and social satire echo throughout.

Sade’s inspirations for Aline and Valcour, which signal his ambition for what he subtitled “the philosophical novel,” include an array of novels in addition to Richardson’s epistolary Pamela, Rousseau’s best-selling Julie, Laclos’ Les liaisons dangereuses, Gulliver’s Travels, and Don Quixote. Aline and Valcour also owes a special debt to the ancient Roman poet Lucretius, whose Epicurean and materialist philosophy lends it a contemporary feel wholly missing from many 18th century novels.

Although not sexually explicit, Aline and Valcour shared the fate of Sade’s other works — banned in 1815, in 1825 it was entered onto the French government’s list of prohibited works. Published clandestinely, it was Man Ray’s favorite Sadean novel, and during WWII, the surrealist Radovan Ivšić traded half his library for a single copy. It did not appear in bookstores until after WWII, when Jean-Jacques Pauvert undertook publication of a new edition of Sade’s works and eventually succeeded in overcoming more than a century of censorship. It has remained continuously in print in France and today forms part of the first volume of the Pléiade edition.

This is the very first rendering of the book into English since its publication in 1795.]]> 260 Marquis de Sade 1940625327 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.11 1795
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]]> 48804246 Aline and Valcour is a sprawling and intellectually sweeping work. Unlike 120 Days of Sodom, the famous scroll that lay concealed in his cell as he wrote, while not pornographic, Aline and Valcour embodies the multiple themes and ideas that would become the hallmark of Sade’s far more sulfurous Juliette and Philosophy in the Bedroom.

Ostensibly an epistolary novel, Aline and Valcour actually combines genres, interweaving the adventure story, libertine novel, and the novel of feelings out of which emerges a unitary tale enlivened by complex and carefully nuanced characters. Turbulence and turpitude disrupt virtuous peoples’ lives as libertines work evil schemes and incestuous designs upon them that don’t stop with abduction and seduction; its protagonists face obstacles to love and harsh threats imposed by crime upon traditional morality and religion. Embedded within Aline and Valcour are sojourns in two exotic lands in Africa and the South Seas: Butua, a brutal cannibalistic dystopia, and Tamoé, a utopian paradise headed by a philosopher-king. In Butua, a brutal chief and priesthood rule over a cowed and doomed populace, and the most atrocious crimes are committed in broad daylight, while in Tamoé, happiness and prosperity flourish amidst benevolent anarchy. Sade infuses his novel with a sort of philosophical anthropology that prefigures not just Karl Marx and the 19th century utopian socialists, but Claude Levi-Strauss and Michel Foucault. Dark humor and social satire echo throughout.

Sade’s inspirations for Aline and Valcour, which signal his ambition for what he subtitled “the philosophical novel,” include an array of novels in addition to Richardson’s epistolary Pamela, Rousseau’s best-selling Julie, Laclos’ Les liaisons dangereuses, Gulliver’s Travels, and Don Quixote. Aline and Valcour also owes a special debt to the ancient Roman poet Lucretius, whose Epicurean and materialist philosophy lends it a contemporary feel wholly missing from many 18th century novels.

Although not sexually explicit, Aline and Valcour shared the fate of Sade’s other works — banned in 1815, in 1825 it was entered onto the French government’s list of prohibited works. Published clandestinely, it was Man Ray’s favorite Sadean novel, and during WWII, the surrealist Radovan Ivšić traded half his library for a single copy. It did not appear in bookstores until after WWII, when Jean-Jacques Pauvert undertook publication of a new edition of Sade’s works and eventually succeeded in overcoming more than a century of censorship. It has remained continuously in print in France and today forms part of the first volume of the Pléiade edition.

This is the very first rendering of the book into English since its publication in 1795.]]> 210 Marquis de Sade 1940625319 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.31 1795
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]]> 56561849 296 Adalbert Stifter 1681375206 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.15 1853
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]]> 49124686 320 Diarmuid Hester 1609386914 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.28 2020
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]]> 1116180 292 James Harley 0415971454 dajai2345 0 to-read 4.14 2004
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]]> 2199413 Book by Matossian, Nouritza 271 Nouritza Matossian 080084050X dajai2345 0 to-read 4.19 1986
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