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etudes
ISBN: HB: 9780857426567, Seagull Books, February 2020
208 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm
Exploring longing, lust for life, ageing, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, etudes is a diary-like sequence of poems by one of the greatest living Austrian poets. Friederike Mayrocker's almost daily entries give us a unique...
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What Was Before
ISBN: PB: 9780857427182, ISBN: HB: 9780857422149, Seagull Books, September 2019
296 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Martin Mosebach's novel "What Was Before" opens with a young couple enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy. Then the young woman, turning slightly more serious, asks her lover that fateful question, one that sounds so innocent but carries toxic seeds...
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£20,50
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Three Plays "Philoctetes", "The Horatian", "Mauser"
ISBN: PB: 9780857427083, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Muller (1929-1995) still remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This collection of plays aims to change that, presenting...
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Party Fun with Kant
ISBN: PB: 9780857425362, Seagull Books, October 2018
192 pp., 19x15.2 cm
Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about Immanuel Kant since his death. None, let's be clear, have been quite like what we have here. In "Party Fun with Kant", Nicolas Mahler tells the story of Kant – and his fellow serious-minded fi...
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Requiem for Ernst Jandl
ISBN: HB: 9780857424754, Seagull Books, February 2018
80 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm
Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrocker – and bringing to an end a half century of shared life, and shared literary work. Mayrocker immediately began attempting to come to terms wit...
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Father's on the Phone with the Flies A Selection
ISBN: HB: 9780857424723, Seagull Books, February 2018
80 pp., 19.5x13.9 cm, 75 colour plates
To create the poems in this collection, Nobel Prize–winner Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in a the form of a collage. "Father's on the P...
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Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficits Or Why the Democracy Given to Us Must Become One We Fight For
ISBN: HB: 9780857423627, Seagull Books, March 2017
112 pp., 19x12.7 cm
In 2010, Robert Menasse journeyed to Brussels to begin work on a novel centered on the European Union. His extended stay resulted in a completely different book – "Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficiencies", a work of nonfiction ex...
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