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Fiction

Of Mice and Mooshaber

Fuks Ladislav

ISBN: HB: 9788024622163, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2014
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Ladislav Fuks (1923-1994) was an outstanding Czech writer whose work, consisting primarily of psychological fiction, explores themes of anxiety and life in totalitarian systems. Fuks is be...

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Poetry

Particle and Wave

Landry Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226096193, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Are we alone? If so, "Particle and Wave" insists that we need not be lonely. Here the periodic table of elements – a system familiar to many of us from high school chemistry – unfolds in a series of unexpected meanings with connotations public, perso...

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Fiction

Agents and Patients A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226137353, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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Fiction

From a View to a Death A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226132969, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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Fiction

What's Become of Waring A Novel

Powell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226137186, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud – such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Prospero's Son Life, Books, Love, and Theater

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226142234, ISBN: HB: 9780226014418, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
168 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs". ‌ That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

Ferrari Gloria

ISBN: PB: 9780226668680, ISBN: HB: 9780226668673, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 2 halftones

The "Partheneion", or "maiden song", composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. A provocative reinterpretation of the "Partheneion" and its broader context, "Alcman and the C...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Decision Between Us Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

Ricco John Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226717777, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 9 halftones

"The Decision Between Us" combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension inform...

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Literary Criticism

Walter Benjamin's Hypothetical French Trauerspiel Yale French Studies, Number 124

Bjornstad Hall, Ibbett Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9780300194203, Yale University Press, February 2014
192 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In the summer of 1927, Walter Benjamin wrote about a possible future project on what he called French Trauerspiel, or mourning drama. In this volume of Yale French Studies, an international team of leading scholars of early modern Europe takes its cu...

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Literary Criticism

Reading Dante

Mazzotta Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780300191356, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem the Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as "La Divina Commedia", or "The Divine Comedy". Guiseppe Mazzotta brings Dant...

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