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From "a master ofverbal burlesque and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail" (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz's harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, nowin a new, authoritative English translation Witold Gombrowicz is considered bymany to be Poland's greatest modernist, and in... Read More about The Possessed

Short-listed for the Goldsmiths PrizeA wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no other.It’s the eighteenth century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent. Her parents a... Read More about The Future Future: A Novel

Short-listed for the Goldsmiths PrizeA wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no other.It’s the eighteenth century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent. Her parents a... Read More about The Future Future: A Novel

An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the  2014 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2014 Read Russia PrizeThe stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven m... Read More about Autobiography of a Corpse

Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses in Writing Degree Zero, his first published book and a landmark in his oeuvre. The debate had engaged the European literary community since the 1930s; w... Read More about Writing Degree Zero