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Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism by Hannah Freed-Thall 9780190201029
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £51.26Spoiled Distinctions investigates crises of evaluation in twentieth-century France. Taking Marcel Proust as its central figure, the book theorizes the disorienting force of everyday aesthetic... -
Memoirs of Ernest A. Forssgren: Proust's Swedish Valet by Ernest A. Forssgren 9780300114638
Booksplease Price: £51.83The memoirs of Ernest Forssgren (1894-1970), the young Swede who served as Marcel Proust's last valet, provide new insights into Proust's life and death. Previously, Forssgren's memoir has been... -
The Writer's Garden: How gardens inspired the world's great authors by Jackie Bennett 9780711277168
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05See inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this visually stunning and fascinating book. Discover the flower gardens, vegetable... -
Musil Diaries by Robert Musil 9780465016518
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.01Robert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities. His Diaries, a distillation of forty-three years of material, are... -
Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light by John Baxter
Booksplease Price: £11.78The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories... -
Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude by Adriana Cavarero 9780804792189
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination... -
The Cambridge History of the Novel in French by Adam Watt 9781108739474
Booksplease Price: £25.43This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explore how novelists writing in French have... -
Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier 9781805334842
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, peppered with a cast of quirky characters and a unique heroine. Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy... -
The Love Affair as a Work of Art by Dan Hofstadter 9781504008136
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42This series of entwined biographical sketches recounts how, in the Romantic Era, love affairs, often illicit, were transformed into novels, memoirs, and published correspondences. We make the... -
Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism by Hannah Freed-Thall 9780190887391
Booksplease Price: £31.34Spoiled Distinctions investigates crises of evaluation in twentieth-century France. Taking Marcel Proust as its central figure, the book theorizes the disorienting force of everyday aesthetic... -
The Shadows of Berlin: The Berlin Stories of Dovid Bergelson by Dovid Bergelson 9780872864443
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Shadows of Berlin is, in part, a bleak chronicle of life in Europe growing ever more hostile at the edge of World War II, part mythic parable. Bergelson's stories-passionate, honest, dark and often... -
The Spirits of the Earth by Catherine Colomb 9780857423726
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.34Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been... -
The Force of Time: An Introduction to Deleuze through Proust by Keith W. Faulkner 9780761838784
Booksplease Price: £44.76Time is not normally visible. While we often sense the events in time, we overlook what Marcel Proust calls "time in a pure state." That's why, in The Force of Time, Keith W. Faulkner shows how... -
Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read But Probably Didn't by John Atkinson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.97A collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described in the fewest words possible and accompanied with... -
Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism by Anca Parvulescu 9781009599795
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72Faces, faces, faces – faces everywhere! Modernism was obsessed with the ubiquity of the human face. Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and, later, Kōbō Abe framed their... -
Performing Place in French and Italian Queer Documentary Film: Space and Proust's Lieu Factice by Oliver Brett 9783319967004
Booksplease Price: £66.26This book explores the space of queer documentary through the modernist optic of Marcel Proust's 'lieu factice' (artificial place), a perspective that problematizes the location of place in a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Proust by Richard Bales 9780521660198
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27). The specially... -
Bergson and his Influence: A Reassessment by A.E. Pilkington 9780521157889
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44The ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) have long been recognised as a major turning-point in, and influence upon, intellectual life. This 1976 book outlines the main themes of his philosophy and... -
The Dolls' Room by Llorenc Villalonga 9781564786128
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01A classic of contemporary Catalan literature, and a haunting and satirical portrait of a vanishing age, Lloren? Villalonga's "The Dolls' Room" concerns the decline of Don Toni and Dona Maria Ant?nia... -
Levinas and Literature: New Directions by Michael Fagenblat 9783110629668
Booksplease Price: £91.56The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas's wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy,... -
Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts by Dana Dragunoiu 9780810143999
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This book shows how ethics and aesthetics interact in the works of one of the most celebrated literary stylists of the twentieth century: the Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Dana... -
In Search of Lost Time: Mahler after Proust by Nicolas Mahler
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.58A twist on the French literary classic In Search of Lost Time told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most important... -
Work to Be Done: Selected Essays and Reviews by Bruce Whiteman 9781771966092
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Essays and critical writing drawn from a wide-ranging fifty-year career in lettersDrawn from a body of essays and reviews written over the course of nearly fifty years, Work to Be Done showcases both... -
The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question by Michael Hauskeller 9781350073630
Booksplease Price: £86.43What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? Can we... -
Revival: A Last Vintage (1950): Essays and Papers by George Saintsbury by George Edward Bateman Saintsbury
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34The Editors of the Saintsbury Memorial Volume have been encouraged by the welcome which that book received to make a final gathering of George Saintbury's writings.From a score of different sources... -
Homo Irrealis by Andre Aciman 9780571366460
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. The irrealis mood knows... -
Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust by Lorenza Foschini 9781846272721
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Guerin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Guerin immediately... -
Alone with Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters by Katja Haustein 9781009363280
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £80.83Times of crisis expose how we experience social, physical, and emotional forms of distance. Alone with Others explores how these experiences overlap, shaping our coexistence. Departing from... -
The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction by Patrick M. Bray
Booksplease Price: £35.62Focusing on Stendhal, Gerard de Nerval, George Sand, Emile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and... -
Men and Mothers: The Lifelong Struggle of Sons and Their Mothers by Hendrika C. Freud 9780367101244
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £119.99Not all men vie with their fathers for the love of their mothers. In some families the mother becomes the central figure for her son - the father is excluded (or excludes himself) and does not come... -
Lully Studies by John Hajdu Heyer 9780521621830
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09The historical importance of composer Jean-Baptiste Lully has long been recognised. Regarded as the founder of French opera, as the embodiment of Baroque musical style and a key figure in the... -
Elizabeth Bowen in Context by Allan Hepburn 9781009536004
Booksplease Price: £90.57This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. It integrates the latest thinking about her engagement, stances, and knowledge of twentieth-century literary... -
Paul Willems - The Cathedral of Mist by Paul Willems 9781939663184
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01A collection of ethereal stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last of the... -
The Sense of an Interior: Four Rooms and the Writers that Shaped Them Diana Fuss 9781138996045
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34The Sense of an Interior is a fascinating exploration of domestic space and of the ways it determines how writers work. The book looks at four famous figures - Emily Dickinson, Sigmund Freud, Helen... -
Levinas and Literature: New Directions by Michael Fagenblat 9783111088426
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.00The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas's wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy,... -
My Prizes by Thomas Bernhard
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Completed in 1980 but published here for the first time, My Prizes is an accounting - prize by prize, blow by blow - of the background and circumstances of reception of nine literary prizes that... -
Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe by Barry McCrea 9780300185157
Booksplease Price: £49.61In the first decades of the twentieth century, rural populations throughout Europe changed the language they used in everyday life, abandoning their traditional vernaculars-such as French patois,... -
Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas Andrew Gibson 9780415198967
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37In Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel Andrew Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical discourse around fiction. Each chapter elaborates and... -
Les Chimeres by Gerard de Nerval 9781848614031
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Nerval is one of the most important writers of the French Romantic movement. His great sonnet cycle, Les Chimeres, in its marvellous combination of spell, quest and dream, continues to fascinate... -
Street Songs: Writers and urban songs and cries, 1800-1925 by Daniel Karlin
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £41.85This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it...