Not for sale in Estonia! First published in French in 1983, "The Cathedral of Mist" is a collection of stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists: distilled tales of distant journeys, buried memories and impossible architectu...

Not for sale in Estonia! "A Terrace in Rome" describes the tormented life of Geoffroy Meaume, a 17th-century engraver of encrypted shadows and erotic prints. After a passionate affair in his youth concludes with his face being burned by acid thrown...

Not for sale in Estonia! "The Pig is the Sun..." So begins Oskar Panizza's outrageously heretical and massively erudite essay on the pig, originally published in 1900 in his journal Zurich Discussions. Moving from the Rig Veda to the Edda to Ovid,...

Not for sale in Estonia! riginally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' "A Dilemma" remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed and manipulation that holds up as clear...

Not for sale in Estonia! If Honore de Balzac's Treatise on Elegant Living addressed one crucial pillar of modernity – the "mode" itself, fashion – his "Physiology of the Employee" examines another equally potent cornerstone to the modern era: burea...

Not for sale in Estonia! In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886-1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the "Dada Manifesto", launching what would become the Zurich Dada movement. That same year he completed his semi-autobiographical novel, "Fl...

Not for sale in Estonia! When Marcel Schwob published "The Book of Monelle" in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stephane Mallarme, Alfred Jarry and Andre...

Not for sale in Estonia! A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, "The Leg of Lamb" brings together the arch-Surrealist Benjamin Peret's short prose: a smorgasbord of automatic writing and fantastical narratives employing everything from th...

Not for sale in Estonia! One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday – "what happens", as he put it, "when nothing happens". His choice of locale was Place Sa...

Not for sale in Estonia! Honore de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's "Anatomy of Dandyism" (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's "The Dandy" (in "The Painter of Modern Life", 18...