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Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski 9780861547326
RRP: $14.18$9.52An epic history of the 'other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. 'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the... -
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski
RRP: $28.38$19.66An epic history of the 'other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. 'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the... -
Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach 9780691178189
RRP: $28.38$23.21How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural... -
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Catriona Kelly
RRP: $11.60$8.32This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional... -
"I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms
RRP: $32.24$30.56In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), one of the founders of Russia's "lost literature of the absurd," wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the... -
Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
RRP: $16.76$11.04BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Wonderfully idiosyncratic, coolly heartfelt and memorable' William Boyd'One of the great writers of early 20th Century Russia' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A remarkable memoir . . . both potent and endearing' Erica Wagner, New... -
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $21.92$17.21Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. "Of course, and as usual," she recalls, "I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed." Kristeva would go on to become one of... -
Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience: Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grunbein by Hannah V. Eldridge 9780192859211
RRP: $91.59$83.39This volume contributes to the fields of lyric poetry and poetics (especially poetic form), aesthetics, and German literature by intervening in debates on the social functions, cognitive and emotional effects, and the value of poetry. It builds on, and... -
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 9780393923209
$17.20Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, accompanied by the translator's note and Mark M. Anderson's... -
Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism: Alexei Remizov's Synthetic Art by Julia Friedman 9780810126176
RRP: $90.30$73.49The great modernist eccentric Alexei Remizov was a "writers' writer" whose innovative poetic prose has long since entered the Russian literary canon. Gradually expanding his working methods to make drawing an integral part of the writing process, during... -
The Story Smuggler by Georgi Gospodinov
RRP: $18.06$11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631205Author Georgi GospodinovFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions -
Kafka: A Very Short Introduction by Ritchie Robertson
RRP: $11.60$8.53'When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect ...' So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is among the most intriguing and... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin 9781487558253
RRP: $30.95$26.33In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
German Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Boyle
RRP: $11.60$8.32German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Gunter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the... -
Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff 9780226566177
RRP: $29.67$28.55Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the... -
The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia by Anna Schur
RRP: $51.54$42.25The Letters and the Law explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. Literary... -
In Search of Russian Modernism by Leonid Livak 9781421426419
RRP: $61.28$53.68A critical reexamination of Russian modernist cultural historiography.Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures by the Modern Language AssociationThe writing and teaching of Russian literary and... -
Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: $103.20$98.83Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the... -
Searching for Cioran by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
RRP: $49.02$42.63Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this... -
On Czeslaw Milosz: Visions from the Other Europe by Eva Hoffman 9780691212692
RRP: $24.50$19.08A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva HoffmanCzeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he... -
Lesya Ukrainka by Constantine Bida 9781442651883
RRP: $36.11$32.19The Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that were universal, historical and psychological. Breaking the... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin
$73.93In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
History of Russia: A Captivating Guide to Russian History, Ivan the Terrible, The Russian Revolution and Cambridge Five by Captivating History 9781950922130
RRP: $25.76$18.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922130Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
My Century by Aleksander Wat
RRP: $27.09$19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170656Author Aleksander WatFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait by Jerzy Ficowski 9780393325478
RRP: $23.87$20.94Sixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers, is experiencing a renaissance in part occasioned by this biography by the renowned Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski. Widely regarded as... -
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9780393926330
$18.94The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, a pronunciation and explanation key for the novel's main characters, and greatly revised and expanded explanatory annotations. "Contexts" presents a wealth of background and source materials relating... -
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner 9780300089226
$41.03Paul Celan, Europe's most compelling postwar poet, was a German-speaking, East European Jew. His writing exposes and illumines the wounds that Nazi destructiveness left on language. John Felstiner's sensitive and accessible book is the first critical... -
Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943 by Katerina Clark
RRP: $55.41$43.51A long-awaited corrective to the controversial idea of world literature, from a major voice in the field.Katerina Clark charts interwar efforts by Soviet, European, and Asian leftist writers to create a Eurasian commons: a single cultural space that... -
Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait by Jiri Pelan
RRP: $15.48$13.11Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats, and women (in roughly that order)," Bohumil... -
Postmodernizing the Holocaust: A Comparative Study of Chosen Novels by Marta Tomczok 9783847116783
$72.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847116783Author Marta TomczokFormat HardbackPage Count 23Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 218g -
Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860-1940 by Anne Eakin Moss 9780810141025
RRP: $51.54$42.25Only Among Women examines idealized relationships between women in Russian literature and culture from the age of the classic Russian novel to socialist realism and Stalinist film. It reveals how the idea of a community of women-a social sphere... -
Polish Literature and the Holocaust: Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942-1947 by Rachel Feldhay Brenner 9780810139817
RRP: $127.71$103.81In this pathbreaking study of responses to the Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores seven writers' compulsive need to share their traumatic experience of witness with the world. The Holocaust put the... -
The Kingdom of Insignificance: Miron Bialoszewski and the Quotidian, the Queer, and the Traumatic by Joanna Nizynska 9780810128460
RRP: $57.99$47.36In this first scholarly book in English on Miron Bialoszewski (1922-1983), Joanna Nizynska illuminates the elusive prose of one of the most compelling and challenging postwar Polish writers. Nizynska's study, exemplary in its use of theoretical concepts,... -
Imagined Dialogues: Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature by Gordana P. Crnkovic 9780810117174
RRP: $96.75$90.36By conducting ""imagined dialogues"" between selected literary works - Eastern European on one hand, American and English on the other - this book proposes an effective way of reading literature, one that goes beyond the narrowing categories of... -
Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self by Bożena Shallcross 9780821414361
$79.13As the subject of ideological, aesthetic, and existential manipulations, the Polish home and its representation is an ever-changing phenomenon that absorbs new tendencies and, at the same time, retains its centrality to Polish literature, whether written... -
The Sacrificed Body: Balkan Community Building and the Fear of Freedom by Tatjana Aleksic 9780822962618
RRP: $52.89$43.32Living in one of the world's most volatile regions, the people of the Balkans have witnessed unrelenting political, economic, and social upheaval. In response, many have looked to building communities, both psychologically and materially, as a means of... -
Testimony After Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence by Stevan M. Weine 9780810123014
RRP: $38.64$37.66Survivors of political violence give testimonies in families and communities, trials and truth commissions, religious institutions, psychotherapies, newspapers, documentaries, artworks, and even in solitude. Through spoken, written, and visual images,... -
Pushkin's Monument and Allusion: Poem, Statue, Performance by Sidney Eric Dement 9781487505523
$77.75In August 1836, Alexander Pushkin wrote a poem now popularly known simply as "Monument." In the decades following his death in January 1837, the poem "Monument" was transformed into a statue in central Moscow: the Pushkin Monument. At... -
The Last Eyewitnesses: Children of the Holocaust Speak by Wiktoria Sliwowska
RRP: $38.64$38.27Provides a new perspective on the lives of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust in Poland and remained there after the war. These testimonies, not originally intended for publication, were assembled as an historical record. They are personal,... -
Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde by Sara P. Weld
RRP: $57.99$47.36Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde offers a new approach to the Russian avant-garde. It argues that central writers, artists, and theorists of the avant-garde self-consciously used an infantile aesthetic, as inspired...