"Wenn Dichter wie Robert Walser zu den 'führenden Geistern' gehören würden, so gäbe es keinen Krieg. Wenn er nur hunderttausend Leser hätte, wäre die Welt besser". Richtig, Hermann Hesse, aber er hatte sie nie. Zumindest nicht zu Lebzeiten. Von seiner im gleichen Jahr (1917) erschienenen Kleinen Prosa hatte sich, bei einer Auflage von 1500 E...more
One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where, Sisyphus-like, they are pressed into shoveling...more
Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland ...more
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous aut...more
Ruskin was the most important aesthetic arbiter of the 19th century. In "The Stones of Venice", "Modern Painters" and "Seven Lamps of Architecture" he developed rules and standards that are contemporary in their range of sympathies. However, Ruskin also wrote thousands of pages of criticism. This anthology by Robert Herbert contains the essential t...more
Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Also included are several of Rilke's best-loved lyrics, such as "Autumn," "Childhood," "Lament," "Evening," and "Entranc...more
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