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Austerlitz Modern Library Paperback
G. A small child when he comes to england on a kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.
This tenth anniversary edition of W. Austerlitz is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle.
On the Natural History of Destruction Modern Library Classics Paperback
During world war two, 131 german cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W.
After Nature Modern Library Paperback
The first figure is the great German Re-naissance painter Matthias Grünewald. The second is the enlightenment botanist-explorer Georg Steller, who accompanied Bering to the Arctic. G. G. Sebald explored in his subsequent books. The third is the author himself, who describes his wanderings among landscapes scarred by the wrecked certainties of previous ages.
After nature introduces many of the themes that W. Modern Library. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation that lie behind and before us, it confirms the author’s position as one of the most profound and original writers of our time.
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
. It is a liberating manifesto that says, in thinking of new modes, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, bring feeling back to experimentation. Meander, spiral, explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions.
. Other writers of nonlinear prose considered in her “museum of specimens” include Nicholson Baker, Susan Minot, Clarice Lispector, Marguerite Duras, Caryl Phillips, Jamaica Kincaid, Anne Carson, Gabriel García Márquez, David Mitchell, and Mary Robison. G. Sebald’s emigrants was the first novel to show Alison how forward momentum can be created by way of pattern, rather than the traditional arc― or, in nature, wave.
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The Passion According to G.H. New Directions Books
. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature…Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one that “best corresponded to her demands as a writer. Modern Library.
2666: A Novel
In the words of the washington post, those like proust, joyce, roberto bolaño joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, Gaddis, Fuentes, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, Pynchon, and Vollmann, "With 2666, Musil, if sometimes idiosyncratic, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand, summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it.
Picador USA. Bolaño has joined the immortals. Modern Library.
Open City: A Novel
The economist Modern Library. Random House Trade Paperbacks. Picador USA. A new york times notable book • one of the ten top novels of the year —time and npr named a best book on more than twenty end-of-the-year lists, including the new yorker • the atlantic • the economist • newsweek/the daily beast • the new republic • new york daily news • los angeles times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Minneapolis Star Tribune • GQ • Salon • Slate • New York magazine • The Week • The Kansas City Star • Kirkus Reviews A haunting novel about identity, and history, dislocation, Teju Cole’s Open City is a profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our country and our world.
A prismatic debut. Beautiful, subtle, and original. The new yorker “A psychological hand grenade. The atlantic “Magnificent.
A Place in the Country Modern Library Classics
G. Sebald’s books, which he made out of classics, remain classics for now. Joshua cohen, or fate, or chance, everything webbed together by the unseen threads of history, everything is connected, The New York Times Book Review“In Sebald’s writing, or death. Modern Library. It is an essential addition to his stunning body of work.
Praise for a place in the Country “Measured, solemn, sardonic. Jean-jacques rousseau is conjured on the verge of physical and mental exhaustion, hiding from his detractors on the island of St. Random House Trade Paperbacks. Pierre, where two centuries later Sebald took rooms adjacent to his.
The Savage Detectives: A Novel
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Year of the Monkey
Random House Trade Paperbacks. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey. For smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, aging, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.
Modern Library. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. Modern Library. In february, a surreal lunar year begins, heightened mischief, bringing with it unexpected turns, and inescapable sorrow.
But as smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, gimlet eye, wit, and above all, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, a rugged hope for a better world. New york times best sellerfrom the national book award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of new year's concerts at san Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering.