Not for sale in Estonia! Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) claimed to have learned English in order to read Poe, an American poet greatly admired by the French Symbolists. This volume reproduces at full size the first-edition bilingual publication of "...

Not for sale in Estonia! The French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end up...

Not for sale in Estonia! Among the most influential works of the French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), "Un Coup de des jamais n'abolira le Hasard" feels to this day revolutionary and resoundingly contemporary, both for the suggestive power of...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Life in the Folds", originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory of fantastical, destructive...

Not for sale in Estonia! Walter Benjamin's sonnets, written to mourn his friend Fritz Heinle, constitute an important though little-known part of the philosopher's literary achievement and a unique contribution to the history of the German sonnet....

Not for sale in Estonia! The eternal mystique of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) stems largely from his practice of writing under "heteronyms". More than just nom de plumes, Pessoa's heteronyms came with distinct biographies, careers,...

Not for sale in Estonia! Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been introduced in Paris by a mutual friend), "Last Nights of Paris" is related to...

Not for sale in Estonia! Pablo Picasso is arguably the most famous and influential artist of the twentieth century. What few in the English speaking world know is that in 1935, at age 54, an emotional crisis caused Picasso to halt all painting and...

Not for sale in Estonia! Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gerard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness – a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled "bohemian...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Clayton Eshleman's translations are the finest and most authentic which have yet been made from Artaud's writing. Artaud's final work is his strongest and most enduring, and this collection has been wisely selected and mag...