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Mysterious Solidarities
ISBN: HB: 9780857427397, Seagull Books, July 2021
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When translator Claire Methuen travels back to her hometown of Dinard for a family wedding, she runs into her old piano teacher Madame Ladon. After befriending the ageing woman, Methuen begins to toy with the idea of a permanent return to live in Bri...
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Fount of Time The Last Kindom II
ISBN: HB: 9780857428493, Seagull Books, June 2021
342 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Last Kingdom is a set of books that... is neither philosophical argumentation nor little disparate, scholarly essays, nor novelistic narrative; gradually, for me, all genres have fallen away".   So writes Pascal Quignard of his monumental book serie...
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Red Scarf Followed by "Two Stages" and Additional Notes
ISBN: HB: 9780857427380, Seagull Books, March 2021
208 pp., 19.6x13.9 cm
In December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 93, Yves Bonnefoy concluded what was to be his last major text in prose, L'echarpe rouge, translated here as The Red Scarf. In this unique book, described by the poet as "an anamnesis" – a f...
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Rome, 1630
ISBN: HB: 9780857425966, Seagull Books, March 2021
392 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to these ma...
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Paper Collage
ISBN: PB: 9780857428431, ISBN: HB: 9780857422293, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm
Should you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town near the westernmost point of continental France, you would do well to look out for a signpost marked, "Georges Perros (1923-1978) 'Dazzled by the sea'". Perr...
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Privy Portrait
ISBN: PB: 9780857428424, ISBN: HB: 9780857421661, Seagull Books, March 2021
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's "Privy Portrait" has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he has no work or prospects, he's blind in one eye, and he must move into a horribly tiny apartment with his only possess...
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Cargo Hold of Stars Coolitude
ISBN: HB: 9780857427854, Seagull Books, January 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Cargo Hold of Stars" is an ode to the forgotten voyage of a forgotten people. Khal Torabully gives voice to the millions of indentured men and women, mostly from India and China, who were brought to Mauritius between 1849 and 1923. Many were transpo...
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Doing
ISBN: HB: 9780857427847, Seagull Books, December 2020
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Doing", Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the most prominent and lucid articulators of contemporary French theory and philosophy, examines the precarious but urgent relationship between being and doing. His book is not so much a call to action as a summons...
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Last Days of Mandelstam
ISBN: HB: 9780857426536, Seagull Books, November 2020
120 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The year is 1938. The great Russian poet and essayist Osip Mandelstam is forty-seven years old and is dying in a transit camp near Vladivostok after having been arrested by Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into exile wi...
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We Defy Augury
ISBN: HB: 9780857427830, Seagull Books, November 2020
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, "this not to come... the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, Helene Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new book – and the latest chapter...
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