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Strange Likeness Description and the Modernist Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226722528, ISBN: HB: 9780226722498, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description – what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool". As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during...
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Different Order of Difficulty Literature after Wittgenstein
ISBN: PB: 9780226677156, ISBN: HB: 9780226677019, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his "T...
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What We Live For, What We Die For Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780300223361, Yale University Press, June 2019
160 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm
"Everyone can find something, if they only look carefully", reads one of the memorable lines from this first collection of poems in English by the world?renowned Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan. These robust and accessible narrative poems feature guts...
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Mesopotamia
ISBN: PB: 9780300223354, Yale University Press, July 2018
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
This captivating book is Serhiy Zhadan's ode to Kharkiv, the traditionally Russian-speaking city in Eastern Ukraine where he makes his home. A leader among Ukrainian post-independence authors, Zhadan employs both prose and poetry to address the disil...
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Where the Bird Disappeared
ISBN: HB: 9780857425423, Seagull Books, July 2018
96 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory detail yet troubled by the porousness of memory. It tells the story of the relationship between two figures of deep mythical reson...
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At Twilight They Return A Novel in Ten Tales
ISBN: HB: 9780300200713, Yale University Press, January 2017
528 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The powerful and stylistically brilliant saga of a family by one of contemporary Greece's most acclaimed literary masters Zyranna Zateli's ambitious, multigenerational saga is the story of Christoforos, who first weds Petroula, and then Eftha, follow...
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Describing the Past
ISBN: HB: 9780857423498, Seagull Books, September 2016
80 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp – a center of Palestinian resistance following the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation when Isr...
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Love Letter in Cuneiform
ISBN: PB: 9780300186970, Yale University Press, May 2016
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomas Zmeskal's stimulating novel focuses on one family's tragic story of love and the unspoken. Josef meets his wife, Kveta, before the Second World War at a public lecture on Hittite culture. K...
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Classicism of the Twenties Art, Music, and Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780226183985, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct – and influential – was a turn t...
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Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me And Other Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780300198409, ISBN: HB: 9780300173161, Yale University Press, November 2013
144 pp., 23.4x13 cm
In this inspired translation of "Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me", Ghassan Zaqtan's tenth and most recent poetry collection, along with selected earlier poems, Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers the best work by one of the most important...
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