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Roman de Brut by Wace 9780192871268
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.' Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to... -
Proust for Beginners by Stephen Bachmann 9781939994448
RRP: €14.27€13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994448Author Stephen BachmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: €10.70€7.97Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected... -
Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd
RRP: €20.22€14.61Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. His novels, The Plague and The Outsider, have a timeless power and appeal and are studied all over the world, and his philosophical work has had an enduring influence... -
Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah by Jean Racine 9780199555994
RRP: €11.89€8.46Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero. Phaedra (1677)... -
The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories by Marcel Proust
RRP: €20.22€13.41'Startlingly audacious.' Literary Review New writing from the literary master Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never even spoke of them. Perhaps he was not ready to share the early themes he was... -
Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: €28.56€27.41"Renaissance Self-Fashioning" is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance - More,... -
Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews by Richard G. Smith
RRP: €28.55€23.22This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity. From familiar themes to the less... -
Don Juan and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: €14.27€10.03Contains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the Schemer Since the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli`re composed and performed his comedies, scarcely a decade... -
Geneses, Genealogies, Genres and Genius: The Secrets of the Archive by Jacques Derrida 9780748621293
RRP: €33.31€30.36He insists on my dreams, on my letters, on my Hs on my Cs, on my Js, on my Gs. G, G, G, G, jet ! A" You are my insister A" he says. A" You are my insister A" I say. No one has performed more learned yet more innocent pirouettes around... -
The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature by Brian Nelson
RRP: €27.36€22.66In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas... -
James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music by Suzanne Singletary
RRP: €47.59€41.72James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music is the first full-length and in-depth study to position this painter within the overall trajectory of French modernism during the second half of the nineteenth century and to view... -
Michel Foucault by Sara Mills 9780415245692
RRP: €23.79€21.05It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon... -
The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine by Lucien Goldmann
RRP: €33.31€28.17This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Loewy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world... -
Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism by Walter Benjamin 9781804290453
RRP: €15.46€10.09Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet it was through his study of the social and cultural... -
Cool Memories by Jean Baudrillard 9780860915003
€21.53Jean Baudrillard's last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa Romeas, leukemia, Catholicism, the Berlin Wall, mattresses, Laurent Fabius, Jean-Paul II, roses, Antarctica, Lech Walesa, mud wrestling, Zinoviev, porn films,... -
The Writing of the Disaster by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: €30.93€26.23Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century-world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust-grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its... -
Twentieth Century Paris: 1900-1950: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-Jose Gransard
RRP: €23.80€22.38Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950. Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to... -
Solar Throat Slashed by Aime Cesaire 9780819570703
RRP: €23.74€19.52Soleil cou coupe (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aime Cesaire's most explosive collection of poetry. Animistically dense, charged with eroticism and blasphemy, and imbued with an African and Vodun spirituality, this book takes the French surrealist adventure... -
"Coming to Writing" and Other Essays by Helene Cixous 9780674144378
€38.15This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, here Helene Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexes-viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing... -
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions by Marina Yaguello
RRP: €32.13€20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046398Author Marina YaguelloFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan by Christine de Pizan 9780393970104
RRP: €19.03€16.45This Norton Critical Edition presents selections from eighteen of Christine's major works in fresh, contemporary translations. Each text is fully annotated and is accompanied by an introduction placing it in the context of Christine's oeuvre and tracing... -
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert 9780199555864
RRP: €9.51€6.89Three Tales offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. A Simple Heart is set in the Normandy of Flaubert's childhood, while Saint Julian and Herodias draw on medieval myth and the biblical story of John the... -
A New History of French Literature by Denis Hollier 9780674615663
€55.39Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.-the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language-to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in... -
A Gallery of Recuperation: On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds by Jaime Semprun 9780262546171
RRP: €20.22€15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546171Author Jaime SemprunFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Modern Times: Selected Non-fiction by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €17.84€13.03MODERN TIMES brings together an extraordinary collection of Sartrean gems, many of which have never been translated into English before. From writings on food and sex to a mini portrait of his great friend and rival, Albert Camus, the volume contains an... -
Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan
RRP: €26.18€21.41A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But... -
Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute 9780226922317
RRP: €27.37€26.33As one of the leading proponents of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute is often remembered for her novels, including "The Golden Fruits", which earned her the Prix international de litterature in 1964. But her carefully crafted and evocative memoir... -
Balzac's Lives by Peter Brooks
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374499Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose by Alain Badiou
RRP: €21.41€18.21The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the... -
Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature by Julia Kristeva
RRP: €38.08€29.36-- Modern PhilologyNot only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation,... -
The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura 9780231163026
RRP: €26.18€20.22Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United... -
The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, An Abridged Edition by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €24.99€24.17An approachable abridgment of Sartre's important analysis of Flaubert. From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by... -
Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest by Mireille Rosello
RRP: €30.93€26.23In recent years, hospitality has emerged as a category in French thinking for addressing a range of issues associated with immigration and other types of journeys. Rosello's book concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North and... -
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
RRP: €24.99€24.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226414195Author Tony JudtFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean by Michael Richardson 9781859840184
RRP: €24.98€21.05In 1932, at the peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal called Legitime defense. Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed... -
How To Read Montaigne by Terence Cave 9781862079441
RRP: €10.70€7.24Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other... -
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
RRP: €23.80€17.01Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.'James picks out the characters, the motifs and the moments that set his... -
French Literature: A Very Short Introduction by John D. Lyons
RRP: €10.70€7.68The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations. The first... -
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton 9780393314427
RRP: €29.75€25.57His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien regime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of...