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Curl
ISBN: PB: 9781939663429, DAP, Wakefield Press, February 2019
72 pp., 17.8x10.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Mr. Gica is the world's greatest barber. He holds the world record for sculptural hairstyling and has won three Olympic golds in neck massage. But his specialty is the shave. Mr. Gica's shop has six mirrors on the walls, si...
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Treatise on Modern Stimulants
ISBN: PB: 9781939663382, DAP, Wakefield Press, November 2018
80 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 15 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Honore de Balzac's "Treatise on Modern Stimulants" is a meditation on five stimulants – tea, sugar, coffee, alcohol and tobacco – by an author very conscious of the fact that his gargantuan output of work was driven by an e...
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Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings
ISBN: PB: 9781939663399, DAP, Wakefield Press, November 2018
128 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! While the reputation of Remedios Varo (1908-63) the surrealist painter is now well established, Remedios Varo the writer has yet to be fully discovered. Her writings, which were never published during her life let alone tra...
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Psychology of the Rich Aunt Being an Inquiry, in Twenty-Five Parts, into the Question of Immortality
ISBN: PB: 9781939663375, DAP, Wakefield Press, July 2018
96 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! With "Psychology of the Rich Aunt", German author Erich Muhsam made his ironic bid for authorial immortality by announcing his discovery that immortality in fact exists – specifically in the person of the Rich Aunt. Through...
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Wishes
ISBN: PB: 9781939663337, DAP, Wakefield Press, July 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! "In the beginning was the pun", Samuel Beckett once wrote. And so it was that Georges Perec brought the good word to his friends and acquaintances on a yearly basis, as an expression of his best wishes for the New Year. "Wi...
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Hashish
ISBN: PB: 9781939663313, DAP, Wakefield Press, April 2018
184 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Encountering the enigmatic dandy Count Vittorio Alta-Carrara in a Parisian eatery, the narrator finds himself invited to a "Hashish Club", where in the dim light of red-filtered candles, a roomful of "recumbent wanderers" e...
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Children's Crusade
ISBN: PB: 9781939663351, DAP, Wakefield Press, March 2018
56 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Marcel Schwob's 1896 novella "The Children's Crusade" retells the medieval legend of the exodus of some 30,000 children from all countries to the Holy Land, who traveled to the shores of the sea, which – instead of parting...
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Imaginary Lives
ISBN: PB: 9781939663344, DAP, Wakefield Press, March 2018
192 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! "Imaginary Lives" remains, over 120 years since its original publication in French, one of the secret keys to modern literature: under-recognized, yet a decisive influence on such writers as Apollinaire, Borges, Jarry and A...
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Construction of Tower of Babel
ISBN: PB: 9781939663320, DAP, Wakefield Press, November 2017
88 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The titular essay is a meditation on Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1563 painting of the Tower of Babel: the first painting in European art history to feature a building as a protagonist. An engineer by trade, Benet brings his...
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My Papa and the Maid of Orleans and Other Grotesques
ISBN: PB: 9781939663276, DAP, Wakefield Press, August 2017
96 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Mynona's other 1921 collection of grotesques is no less provocative and just as indefinable in nature – even close to a century after its original publication. These twelve off-kilter parabolic tales include items such as "...
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