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Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: $17.53$11.86Brilliant 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... -
Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present by Michael Sheringham 9780199566983
RRP: $118.95$118.01In the last twenty years the concept of the quotidien , or the everyday, has been prominent in contemporary French culture and in British and American cultural studies. This book provides the first comprehensive analytical survey of the whole field of... -
The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion by Edmond Jabes 9780804726849
RRP: $37.03$32.60The late Edmond Jabes was a major voice in French poetry in the latter half of this century. An Egyptian Jew, he was haunted by the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing. He focused on the space of the book, seeing it as the true... -
The Lost Steps by Andre Breton
RRP: $31.18$27.77The Lost Steps (Les Pas perdus) is Andre Breton's first collection of critical and polemical essays. Composed between 1917 and 1923, these pieces trace his evolution during the years when he was emerging as a central figure in French (and European)... -
Geneses, Genealogies, Genres and Genius: The Secrets of the Archive by Jacques Derrida 9780748621293
RRP: $54.58$50.72He 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... -
Surrealism and the Art of Crime by Jonathan P. Eburne
RRP: $76.05$67.31Corpses mark surrealism's path through the twentieth century, providing material evidence of the violence in modern life. Though the shifting group of poets, artists, and critics who made up the surrealist movement were witness to total war,... -
Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism Zakir Paul 9780691257983
RRP: $68.25$54.09A critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thoughtIn the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of quantifying, measuring, and evaluating “intelligence,”... -
Rimbaud: The Cost of Genius by Neal Oxenhandler 9780814256749
$41.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256749Author Neal OxenhandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 272g -
Abysses by Pascal Quignard
RRP: $25.33$22.35Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he says, "neither of philosophical argumentation, nor short learned essays, nor novelistic narration," but comes, rather,... -
The Romance of the Rose: Third Edition by Guillaume de Lorris
RRP: $81.90$65.21Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English... -
Artaud's Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs to Bodies Without Organs by Jay Murphy 9780957147096
RRP: $37.03$32.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957147096Author Jay MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Pavement BooksPublisher Pavement BooksWeight(grams) 440g -
Rare Birds of North America by Steve N. G. Howell 9780691117966
RRP: $62.40$50.23Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different... -
How To Read Sade by John Phillips 9781862077270
RRP: $13.63$9.44John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how, though Sade's work continues to shock, it can also be seen... -
Aminadab by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $33.13$29.39The world of Aminadab, Maurice Blanchot's second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction of power, authority, and hierarchy. The novel opens... -
Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile by Amy L. Hubbell 9780803264908
RRP: $87.75$76.40Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million Pieds-Noirs (literally "black-feet") were former... -
Soap by Francis Ponge 9780804729550
RRP: $37.03$30.58". . . And now, dear reader, for your intellectual toilet, here is a little piece of soap. Well handled, we guarantee it will be enough. Let us hold this magic stone." The poet Francis Ponge (1899-1988) occupied a significant and unchallenged place in... -
The Handbook of French Fantasy & Supernatural Fiction by Jean-Marc Lofficier 9781649321657
RRP: $40.93$38.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649321657Author Jean-Marc LofficierFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Hollywood ComicsPublisher Hollywood ComicsWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat by Michel Leiris 9781635900842
RRP: $44.85$31.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900842Author Michel LeirisFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm -
Women'S Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s by Gill Rye 9780719062278
RRP: $38.98$34.34The 1990s witnessed an explosion in women's writing in France, with a particularly exciting new generation of writer's coming to the fore, such as Christine Angot, Marie Darrieussecq and Regine Detambel. Other authors such as Paule Constant, Sylvie... -
Death and the Labyrinth by Michel Foucault 9780826493620
$49.63"Death and the Labyrinth" is unique, being Foucault's only work on literature. For Foucault this was "by far the book I wrote most easily and with the greatest pleasure". Here, Foucault explores theory, criticism and psychology... -
Rue Traversière by Yves Bonnefoy 9781803092713
RRP: $27.28$23.69A beautiful collection of poems from various styles and genres by France's foremost poet, Yves Bonnefoy. Praised by Paul Auster as “one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout... -
Proust's Binoculars: A Study of Memory, Time and Recognition in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Roger Shattuck
RRP: $58.50$45.42In this compact volume readers just beginning Proust's master work and those who are already enriched by it will become aware of a significance not unkown but only forgotten"--the basic structure of Proust's enormous novel. The overall meaning of... -
Candide by Voltaire 9780393932522
$22.27The novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical Edition remains that of Robert M. Adams's superlative translation, accompanied by explanatory annotations. This edition also... -
The Handbook of French Science Fiction by Jean-Marc Lofficier 9781649321619
RRP: $44.83$41.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649321619Author Jean-Marc LofficierFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Hollywood ComicsPublisher Hollywood ComicsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings by Emilie du Chatelet
RRP: $78.00$75.95Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of... -
Palace of Books by Roger Grenier
RRP: $27.30$23.91For decades, French writer, editor, and publisher Roger Grenier has been enticing readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between the art of living and the work of art. Under Grenier's wry gaze, cliches crumble, and offbeat... -
Philosophy as Fiction by Joshua Landy 9780195389357
RRP: $69.21$44.56Is it possible (or desirable) to live without illusions? Can artistry assist in the project of forging a unified self? What does our use of metaphor have to do with who we are? In this groundbreaking study, Joshua Landy explores Proust's original and... -
The Death Penalty: v. 1 by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $64.35$54.50In this newest installment in Chicago's series of Jacques Derrida's seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the... -
Proust Among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: $78.00$75.17Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time. In... -
Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $62.40$57.58-- 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 Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature by Glyn S. Burgess 9780708321966
RRP: $77.98$65.85This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages". Its intention is to update the French and Occitan chapters in R.S. Loomis' "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History" (Oxford,... -
Catholicism and Children's Literature in France: The Comtesse De SeGur (1799-1874) by Sophie Heywood 9780719084669
RRP: $165.75$117.33This is the first book-length history of the classic French children's author, the comtesse de Segur. Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Segur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. Generations of children have grown up... -
Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France by Emily Apter
RRP: $31.18$28.55Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects-the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and... -
Without God: Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror by Louis Betty
RRP: $56.45$53.72Michel Houellebecq is France's most famous and controversial living novelist. Since his first novel in 1994, Houellebecq's work has been called pornographic, racist, sexist, Islamophobic, and vulgar. His caricature appeared on the cover of the French... -
"What is Literature?" and Other Essays by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780674950849
$62.89"What is Literature?" remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. "What is Literature?"... -
The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection by Rodolphe Gasche 9780674867017
RRP: $89.60$71.55Deconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. The Tain of the Mirror (tain names the tinfoil,... -
Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World Charles Forsdick 9781846310553
RRP: $42.90$38.79In the late 1990's, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and an overemphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for... -
Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Jean Guihenno 9780199970865
RRP: $58.48$43.70Jean Guehenno's Diary of the Dark Years 1940-1945 is the book historians love to quote to describe both ordinary daily life and literary life in Paris under Nazi occupation. While it is a sharply observed record of day-to-day life in occupied Paris, this... -
Proust's Lesbianism by Elisabeth Ladenson
RRP: $48.73$42.26For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction-his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and... -
The Gates of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists by Harry Levin 9780195007275
RRP: $70.18$53.25"The author explores this tradition in depth and defines it with a breadth of vision, a dynamic vigor and freedom rarely paralleled today....His method, flexible, generous, humane in the best sense of the word, eschews pedantry, dogma, useless...