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A Dutiful Son by Pascal Bruckner 9781910213162
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910213162Author Pascal BrucknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
My Little Husband by Pascal Bruckner 9781909232310
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909232310Author Pascal BrucknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint -
An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt by Pascal Bruckner
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89'Islamophobia' is a term that has existed since the nineteenth century. But in recent decades, argues Pascal Bruckner in his controversial new book, it has become a weapon used to silence criticism... -
The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism by Pascal Bruckner
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have... -
Has Marriage for Love Failed? Pascal Bruckner 9780745669786
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Today we like to think that marriage is a free choice based on love: that we freely choose whom to marry and that we do so, not so much for survival or social advantage, but for love. The invention... -
The Triumph of the Slippers: On the Withdrawal from the World by Pascal Bruckner 9781509559527
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly dangerous place. In... -
The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings Pascal Bruckner 9780745669779
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and... -
I Suffer Therefore I Am: Portrait of the Victim as Hero Pascal Bruckner 9781509567164
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.76In the West today, suffering has become a new sacred cow. Once a common feature of the human condition, it is now a special trait you can use to impress your contemporaries. It provides you with a... -
The Friendship of a Mountain: A Brief Treatise on Elevation by Cory Stockwell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Why are we fascinated by mountains? These outcrops of rock were once considered unsightly, something to be avoided at all costs, but, since Rousseau, they have been contrasted with our corrupt cities... -
A Brief Eternity – The Philosophy of Longevity by P Bruckner
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89There is one fundamental thing that has changed in our societies since 1950: life has got longer. Over the last few generations, 20 or 30 years have been added to the duration of our lives. But after... -
Stigmata of Bliss: Three Novellas by Klaus Merz
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentences, Merz brings depth and resonance to spare... -
The Second Seedtime: Notebooks, 1980–94 by Philippe Jaccottet 9781803093604
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.30The second volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters. One of Europe's finest contemporary poets, Jaccottet is a writer of exacting attention... -
Obscurity by Philippe Jaccottet
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63The story of an intense encounter between two men who were once very close and now must grapple with the fractured ideals that separate them. After several years abroad, a young man returns to his... -
Seedtime: Notebooks, 1954–79 by Philippe Jaccottet 9781803093598
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The first volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters.Seedtime-Jaccottet's notebooks-is an especially good introduction to this leading... -
Notebooks, Volume 1, 1998-99 Anselm Kiefer 9780857427045
Booksplease Price: £20.17"For a long time, it was not clear if I would become a writer or an artist," says Anselm Kiefer, whose paintings and sculptures have made him one of the most significant and influential artists of... -
Seedtime III: Notebooks, 1995-1998 by Phlippe Jaccottet
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.51Writers' notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first they might appear to be rag-and-bone shops of ideas, insights, hesitations, doubts, and records of... -
Panopticon by Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9780857425034
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of daring short essays on topical themes politics, economics, religion, society not from Jeremy Bentham's famous prison but from a... -
The Questionable Ones by Judith Keller
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.60A brilliant collection of micro-fiction, reflecting our fragmented times. With quirky humor and wry insight, Swiss author Judith Keller's micro-fictions unravel the fabric of daily life. She delves... -
In Conversation with Klaus Dermutz by Anselm Kiefer 9781803090382
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30In the ten conversations with the writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz collected here, Kiefer returns to the essential elements of his art, his aesthetics, and his creative processes. The only visual... -
Fly Away, Pigeon by Melinda Nadj Abonji
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland. In this novel, Melinda Nadj... -
Panopticon by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.55A collection of daring short essays on topical themes, including politics, economics, religion, society. Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection not from Jeremy Bentham's famous... -
On Love: A Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century Luc Ferry 9780745670171
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.89All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost...