Results for "Polizzotti, Mark"

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate  “Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement’s aspirations and attainments against its flaws and contradictions, hoping to recuperate Surrealism’s ‘critical and imaginative essence’ f... Read More about Why Surrealism Matters (Why X Matters Series)

A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano   “Polizzotti’s crisp and evocative translation keeps the reader hooked.”—Publishers Weekly   In his acclaimed semi-autobiographical novella Suspended Sentences, Patrick Modiano recou... Read More about Scene of the Crime: A Novel (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature “Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings it to life in all its sparkling multifariousness”  --J.M. CoetzeeIn four beautifully woven parts,... Read More about Kibogo

A Best Book of 2023 by The New YorkerFrom the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a piercing account of the lesser-known conflict preceding the Vietnam War that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.How can a modern army lose to an army of peasants? Delving into the last gasps of the Fi... Read More about An Honorable Exit

A new translation of the best and most provocative work by France's infamous rebel poet, in a bilingual editionPoet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious career of the poet Arthur Rimbaud is one of the legends of modern literature. By the time he was twenty, R... Read More about The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings

Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in a “mesmerizing, enigmatic novel” (Publishers Weekly)  “A mesmerizing, enigmatic novel. . . . A story about growing old and the gaps and omissions that make up a life. . . . Its dreamlike prose and a beguiling structural twist make it a ... Read More about Invisible Ink: A Novel (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)