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Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic by Alice Kaplan
RRP: £18.00£15.40The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be found in... -
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire by Walter Benjamin 9780674022874
RRP: £23.95£19.14Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire... -
I Can't Go on, I'LL Go on: a Selection from Samuel Beckett's Work by Samuel Beckett 9780802132871 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£7.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802132871Author Samuel BeckettFormat PaperbackPage Count 621Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt 9780715629253
£25.45The function of literature and words changes dramatically over the centuries, particularly when dealing with medieval literature. The most common misconception among students and dated textbooks is that medieval French literature is merely a 'recording'... -
Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris by Jean-Marie Guehenno 9780190495848
RRP: £15.99£12.23Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction Jean Guehenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi... -
Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women’s Writing by Lucille Cairns 9781802077957
£111.61Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women's Writing examines the most common types of Eating Disorders (EDs) - anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa/bulimarexia, and binge eating disorder - as represented in contemporary French women's literature. The... -
The French New Wave - A New Look by Naomi Greene 9781905674121
RRP: £17.99£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674121Author Naomi GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 180gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust by Paul de Man
RRP: £19.99£19.39This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by... -
The Impossible by Georges Bataille 9780872862623
RRP: £12.99£11.54In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a... -
The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture: Dark Fictions by Claire Gorrara 9780199246090
RRP: £130.00£112.92The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture offers a lively introduction to the post-war French roman noir from a cultural studies perspective. A populist and widely disseminated genre, the French roman noir has suffered from a reputation as a minor genre... -
Ricoeur on Time and Narrative: An Introduction to Temps et recit by William C. Dowling
RRP: £20.99£18.37"The object of this book," writes William C. Dowling in his preface, "is to make the key concepts of Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative available to readers who might have felt bewildered by the twists and turns of its argument." The sources of puzzlement... -
A Short History of French Literature by Sarah Kay 9780199291182
RRP: £45.99£38.38This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. Within its remarkably brief compass, it offers a wide-ranging, personal, and detailed account of major writers and movements. Developments in French literature are... -
A Short Survey of Surrealism David Gascoyne 9781900564663
RRP: £8.95£6.42Gascoyne's membership of the Surrealist movement and his association with its leading members - among them Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali - placed him in an ideal position to witness and record the development and significance of... -
Songs of the Women Troubadours Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner 9780815335689
RRP: £37.99£33.38This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by... -
All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast by E M Cioran 9781948924238
RRP: £17.99£10.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924238Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9780393928839
£15.98An extensively revised "Backgrounds and Contexts" section provides geographical and political insights into mid-nineteenth century France and places the novel in the context of contemporary authors and works. A map of 1830s France, political and literary... -
The Oxford Book of French Short Stories by Elizabeth Fallaize
RRP: £11.99£8.43This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the... -
A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy by Henry Somers-Hall
RRP: £31.00£28.69A collaborative close reading of 'A Thousand Plateaus' by some of the world's leading Deleuze and Guattari scholarsThis volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: £45.00£36.32An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through... -
Edmund Husserl's "Origin of Geometry": An Introduction by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £23.99£20.84Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry": An Introduction (1962) is Jacques Derrida's earliest published work. In this commentary-interpretation of the famous appendix to Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Derrida... -
Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust: A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past by Howard Moss 9781589880795
RRP: £15.99£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880795Author Howard MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 168g -
Perpetual Orgy by Mario Vargas Llosa 9780374520625
£12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374520625Author Mario Vargas LlosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature by Joseph Ford 9781498581882
RRP: £35.00£30.95Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literature-and the way we read, classify, and critique literature-impacts our understanding of the world at a time of conflict. Using the bitterly-contested... -
Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 8: Leonardo, Poe, Mallarme by Paul Valery 9780691619682
RRP: £68.00£52.77Valery's essays on Leonardo, Poe, Mallarme, and with these the "Teste Cycle," were that part of his work most central to his thought. The extensive selection included from his Notebooks is evidence of his enduring interest in these figures. The... -
The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews by Jean Genet
RRP: £29.99£26.50This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt... -
Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch Luke O'Sullivan 9781399522960
RRP: £90.00£81.97Doubtful Writing offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. It argues that Montaigne's engagement, his endless 'commerce' with two dogmatists, Seneca and Plutarch, produced a radical... -
Student Guide to Antonin Artaud: From Theory to Practice Lee Jamieson 9781871551983
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551983Author Lee JamiesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic by Professor Alice Kaplan
RRP: £16.00£13.84States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel The Plague as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our time. One of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert... -
Communicating Vessels by Andre Breton
RRP: £19.99£17.54What Freud did for dreams, Andre Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. Originally published in 1932 in France, Les Vases communicants is an effort to... -
Intratextual Baudelaire: The Sequential Fabric of the Fleurs Du Mal and Spleen de Paris by Randolph Paul Runyon 9780814256824
£32.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256824Author Randolph Paul RunyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Divagations by Stephane Mallarme 9780674032408
RRP: £33.95£32.84"This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, Stephane Mallarme, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the heels of this caveat, Mallarme's diverting, discursive, and... -
Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature by Warren F. Motte, Jr. 9781564781871
RRP: £14.99£12.54A remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Founded in... -
In the Wake of Medea: Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction by Juliette Cherbuliez
RRP: £27.99£24.14In the Wake of Medea examines the violence of seventeenth-century French political dramas. French tragedy has traditionally been taken to be a passionless, cerebral genre that refused all forms of violence. This book explores the rhetorical, literary,... -
Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 9780811200035
RRP: £14.99£13.03When Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 at the age of thirty-eight, as the result of a war wound, he was already known as one of the most original and important poets of his time. He had led the migration of Bohemian Paris across the city from Montmartre... -
The Book of Margins by Edmond Jabes
RRP: £28.00£27.39The death of Edmond Jabes in January 1991 silenced one of the most compelling voices of the postmodern, post-Holocaust era. Jabes's importance as a thinker, philosopher, and Jewish theologian cannot be overestimated, and his enigmatic style-combining... -
The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier (1808-1892): Bringing World Literature to France by Wendy S. Mercer 9780197263884
£70.60This is the first critical biography of Xavier Marmier. The celebrity of Marmier was such that his death made headline news in most major newspapers in France. Marmier made his reputation as a traveller, travel writer, translator, literary critic,... -
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780872201620
RRP: £13.99£11.83First published posthumously in 1782 from an unfinished manuscript, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker continues Rousseau's exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation. This accurate and graceful... -
Monsieur Proust's Library: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Marcel Proust by Anka Muhlstein
RRP: £16.99£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635421880Author Anka MuhlsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody 9781848312111
RRP: £7.99£3.42INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of... -
The Metamorphoses of Tintin: or Tintin for Adults by Jean-Marie Apostolides
RRP: £23.99£20.84The Belgian artist Georges Remi's (Herge) legendary creation, Tintin is a figure whose adventures have enchanted readers in Europe for the last eighty years. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the twentieth century, with...