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Teller and the Tale by Gabriel Josipovici
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings... -
Forgetting by Gabriel Josipovici 9781784108908
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural... -
In a Hotel Garden by Gabriel Josipovici
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60"In a Hotel Garden" is the strangest and most enigmatic of Gabriel Josipovici's many strange, enigmatic novels. On the surface it is a simple story of the growing obsession young Englishman with a... -
Touch by Gabriel Josipovici 9780300181067
Booksplease Price: £23.05In this brilliant new book, a preeminent literary thinker muses over the central question of how we can feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our wishes... -
Everything Passes by Gabriel Josipovici 9781857548501
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62'Everything passes. The good and the bad. The joy and the sorrow. Everything passes. Or does it?' At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the painter Jan Gossaert paints Danae, upon whom Jupiter... -
Hotel Andromeda by Gabriel Josipovici 9781847772633
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60In a house in a quiet street in North London, Helena struggles with her self-appointed task of writing a book about the reclusive American artist Joseph Cornell. At the same time she dreams and... -
100 Days by Gabriel Josipovici 9781800172036
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98When in March 2020 the Covid pandemic led the Government to impose a total lockdown Gabriel Josipovici decided that he would respond to a unique situation by writing an essay a day for a hundred... -
Goldberg: Variations by Gabriel Josipovici 9780060897239
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060897239Author Gabriel JosipoviciFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
Hamlet: Fold on Fold by Gabriel Josipovici 9780300218329
Booksplease Price: £30.43William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive-very... -
Partita and A Winter in Zürau Gabriel Josipovici 9781800174313
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60PartitaFiction and non-fiction are two sides of the same coin. Or are they? Michael Penderecki is in flight. Someone has threatened to kill him. But who is the woman dead in the bathtub? And why does... -
Infinity: The Story of a Moment by Gabriel Josipovici 9781847771667
Booksplease Price: £14.27"The piano is not an instrument for young ladies Massimo, he said, it is an instrument for gorillas. Only a gorilla has the strength to attack the piano as it should be attacked, only a gorilla has... -
The Book of God: A Response to the Bible by Gabriel Josipovici 9780300048650
Booksplease Price: £36.33Is the Bible one book or a collection of writings? If it is a book, does it stand as a coherent piece of literature? Building on the recently renewed interest in biblical narrative associated with... -
What Ever Happened to Modernism? by Gabriel Josipovici 9780300178005
Booksplease Price: £27.47A personal, penetrating, and polemical account of what Modernism is and how contemporary literature has failed it The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist... -
Contre-jour: A Triptych After Pierre Bonnard by Gabriel Josipovici 9781857544107
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62A novel based on the life of painter, Pierre Bonnard.Book InformationISBN 9781857544107Author Gabriel JosipoviciFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Carcanet Press LtdPublisher Carcanet Press... -
Structuralism and Semiotics by Terence Hawkes
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field. Since... -
Structuralism and Semiotics by Terence Hawkes 9780415321532
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.52Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field. Since... -
Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays by William Poole
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04This book presents comparative and interdisciplinary essays that demonstrate the value of thinking with Shakespeare, either as embodied in Shakespeare's own creative programme or in our use of... -
Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays by William Poole (New College, Oxford)
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book presents comparative and interdisciplinary essays that demonstrate the value of thinking with Shakespeare, either as embodied in Shakespeare's own creative programme or in our use of... -
Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses Robert Eaglestone 9780815376699
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Brexit is a political, economic and administrative event: and it is a cultural one, too. In Brexit and Literature, Robert Eaglestone brings together a diverse range of literary scholars, writers and... -
Real Voices: On Reading by Philip Davis 9780333670033
Booksplease Price: £90.56Poets, novelists and critics committed to creative thinking join together in this collection of essays to say what serious reading really means to them as individuals. The collection is divided into... -
Real Voices: On Reading by Philip Davis 9780333670026
Booksplease Price: £90.56Poets, novelists and critics committed to creative thinking join together in this collection of essays to say what serious reading really means to them as individuals. The collection is divided into... -
PN Review 279 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174221
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The September-October 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
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... -
On Reading Ruskin by Marcel Proust 9780300045031
Booksplease Price: £28.58Early in his career, Marcel Proust, who greatly admired John Ruskin, published translations of two works by the English critic - La Bible d'Amiens (1900) and Sesame et les Lys (1906). He wrote a... -
Collected Stories Franz Kafka 9781857151459
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The present volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a new... -
The Musical Novel - Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction by Emily Petermann 9781571135926
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to... -
The Apocrypha by Martin Goodman
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.69The Oxford Bible Commentary is a Bible study and reference work for 21st century students and readers that can be read with any modern translation of the Bible. It offers verse-by-verse explanation... -
The Pentateuch by John Barton 9780199580248
Booksplease Price: £29.51The Oxford Bible Commentary is a Bible study and reference work for 21st century students and readers that can be read with any modern translation of the Bible. It offers verse-by-verse explanation... -
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life by Philip Davis 9780199571475
Booksplease Price: £21.76Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war... -
The Gospels by John Muddiman 9780199580255
Booksplease Price: £29.51The Oxford Bible Commentary is a Bible study and reference work for 21st century students and readers that can be read with any modern translation of the Bible. It offers verse-by-verse explanation... -
The Pauline Epistles by John Muddiman 9780199580262
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.87The Oxford Bible Commentary is a Bible study and reference work for 21st century students and readers that can be read with any modern translation of the Bible. It offers verse-by-verse explanation... -
If These Apples Should Fall: Cezanne and the Present by T. J. Clark
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022A penetrating analysis of the work of one of the most influential painters in the history of modern art by one of the world's most respected art historians. ... -
Earth's Almanac Lucy Newlyn 9781910392102
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The poems in Earth's Almanac emerged over a fifteen-year period following the untimely death of the poet's sister. Lucy Newlyn adapts the tradition of the 'Shepherd's Calendar' to the phases of... -
PN Review 277 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174207
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The May-June 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from... -
The Bible: Authorized King James Version by Robert Carroll 9780199535941
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.33The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation... -
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life by Philip Davis 9780199270095
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £19.90Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war... -
Aesop's Fables by Aesop 9780199540754
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is... -
The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century by Timothy Hyman 9780500296530
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40A celebration of the richness of figurative painting over the last 100 years and a passionate critique of the accepted history of art in the 20th century. Figurative painting is due a reappraisal... -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867931
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.94The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility... -
Repetition by Peter Handke
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. SebaldFilip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing...