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The Friction of Life: An investigation on Renato Caccioppoli's life Lorenza Foschini 9783031652615
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $59.37Naples, May 8, 1959. Renato Caccioppoli, a mathematical genius, prodigious pianist, captivating storyteller, highly cultured and multilingual, believed to be the grandson of the anarchist movement... -
Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us by Simone Weil
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.73Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt,... -
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind Simone Weil 9780415271011
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $184.95Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She... -
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind by Simone Weil 9780415271028
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.00Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She... -
Shakespeare's Individualism by Peter Holbrook 9780521760676
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.35Providing a provocative and original perspective on Shakespeare, Peter Holbrook argues that Shakespeare is an author friendly to such essentially modern and unruly notions as individuality, freedom,... -
The Communist Temptation: Rolland, Gide, Malraux, and Their Times by Tom Conner 9781680536881
Booksplease Price: $169.53The Communist Temptation: Rolland, Gide, Malraux, and Their Times traces the evolution of the committed left-wing public intellectual in the interwar period, specifically in the 1930s, and focuses on... -
Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life by Judith Chazin-Bennahum 9780195399332
RRP: $91.33Booksplease Price: $64.13The biography of a fascinating cultural hero, Rene Blum and the Ballets Russes uncovers the events in the life of the enigmatic and brilliant writer and producer who perished in the Holocaust... -
Europe's Intellectuals and the Cold War: The European Society of Culture, Post-War Politics and International Relations by Nancy Jachec 9781350154049
Booksplease Price: $75.24In 1950, nearly 300 of Europe's leading artists, philosophers and writers formed an international society intended to end the Cold War. The European Society of Culture was composed of many of Western... -
In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story Andrea Weiss 9780226836799
Booksplease Price: $42.00A biography of Thomas Mann's two eldest children that provides intriguing insight into both their lives and the political and cultural shifts at the same time. Thomas Mann's two eldest children,... -
Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust by Michael Lucey 9780822338970
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the... -
Committed Writings by Albert Camus
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the... -
Olivia by Dorothy Strachey 9780099511885
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34'Perfectly captures the breathless excitement of adolescent passion' Sarah WatersWhen Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival,... -
Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965 Samuel M. Steward, PhD 9780918393760
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $105.78Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre... -
Such a Deathly Desire by Pierre Klossowski 9780791471968
Booksplease Price: $53.55Shocking, brilliant, and eccentric, the French author, translator, and artist Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001) exerted a profound effect on French intellectual culture throughout the twentieth century... -
Postcolonial Counterpoint: Orientalism, France, and the Maghreb by Farid Laroussi
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $92.00Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between... -
The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire by Laura Claridge 9780374536763
Booksplease Price: $42.78Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With... -
Gravity and Grace by Gustave Thibon
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.57Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely... -
Gravity and Grace by Gustave Thibon 9780415290005
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $184.95Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely... -
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes Of A Native Son by James Baldwin
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to... -
Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature Mat Fournier 9780231209526
RRP: $245.70Booksplease Price: $192.40During the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portrayals of homosexuality and queerness. The same moment, however, witnessed the... -
Cuentos Stories (Spanish Edition) by 9780140255805
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $36.56A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams...A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's victim...In the stories collected here-including... -
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Race and the Subject of Masculinities by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780822319580 [USED COPY]
RRP: $268.80Booksplease Price: $26.88Although in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have largely ignored the ways in which masculinity intersects with other categories of identity,... -
The Devil's Advocates: Decadence in Modern Literature by Thomas R. Whissen 9780313264832
Booksplease Price: $129.42It is a feat to demystify decadence genially while dealing with unsavory material usually presented complicitously. But Whissen achieves even more. He is not looking at counterculture literature but... -
Connective Tissue: Ten Essays by University of Virginia Kenan Fellows 2001-2016 by Peter Waldman
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $50.95This is not another treatise on the heroic nature of the Jeffersonian imagination. Rather, it offers another reading generated by Joseph Campbell's reluctant hero in The Hero of A Thousand Faces as... -
Some of These Days: Black Stars, Jazz Aesthetics, and Modernist Culture by James Donald 9780199354016
Booksplease Price: $98.83Some of These Days proffers a compelling cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance's vast influence abroad, with a dual focus on the world's first two major African American stars: Josephine Baker... -
Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text by Richard Lehan 9780807143674
Booksplease Price: $63.19Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took... -
Adventures In Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.32Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he... -
Aaron Copland and His World by Carol J. Oja
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.39Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history. This... -
Race and the Subject of Masculinities by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780822319665
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51Although in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have largely ignored the ways in which masculinity intersects with other categories of identity,... -
No Exit from Vietnam: A memoir by a Marine Corps Veteran Bob Armstrong 9781036139186
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.89No Exit from Vietnam is a subversive, issue-driven memoir of the US-Vietnam war and its aftermath. In 2021, the Department of Veterans Affairs discontinued a prescription for Vicodin that Bob... -
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.35'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a solitary shepherd called Elzeard... -
The Bookman: William Troy on Literature and Criticism, 1927-1950 by James R Russo
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $59.96William Troy (1903-1961) was a highly regarded literary critic during the 1930s and 1940s. Among his contemporaries, he ranked with Edmund Wilson, Kenneth Burke, and F. O. Matthiessen. Indeed, in the... -
The Days: His Autobiography in Three Parts Taha Hussein 9781649032614
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.88Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novel The Days helped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literature"It is... -
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Radical French Thought and the Return of the "Jewish Question" by Eric Marty
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectual whose work, especially on the issues of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, runs counter to the... -
Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature by Mat Fournier 9780231209533
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.67During the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portrayals of homosexuality and queerness. The same moment, however, witnessed the... -
Inspector Cadaver: Inspector Maigret #24 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed... -
Personal Writings by Albert Camus
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the... -
T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition by Benjamin G. Lockerd 9781611476118
Booksplease Price: $238.16T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris,... -
Critical Essays: Volume 2: 1949–1951 Georges Bataille 9781803094342
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $39.29An introduction for English-language readers to Georges Bataille's postwar philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of World War II, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a... -
Ida Rubinstein: Revolutionary Dancer, Actress, and Impresario by Judith Chazin-Bennahum 9781438487984
Booksplease Price: $54.47The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.Ida Rubinstein (1883-1960) captivated Paris's dancers,...