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This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and oth...

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"e;[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it."e;--The Washington PostIn our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture...

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Other Walk is a series of autobiographical pieces by the master of reflection and slow timeThroughout his life, Sven Birkerts, one of the country's foremost literary critics, has carved out time for himself-to walk, to swim, to read, to contemplat...

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The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of v...

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Trenchant, expansive essays on the cultural consequences of ongoing, all-permeating technological innovationIn 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially tho...

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"e;Birkerts reads Nabokov even as he allows Nabokov to read him. This is reading as high art, exhilarating and wise."e;-CHRISTOPHER BENFEY,author, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay"e;Much more than an exercise in literary criticism...

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Revolutions of the Heart is a genre-bending book where literature, social activism, and mysticism intersect. In this follow-up to Lababidi's first essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Bellydancing (2010), the author is undergoing an i...

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Leidenschaftliche und melancholische essayistische Variationen über das Lesen, allen Bücherfreunden zum Trost, die sich den Verheiÿungen der schönen neuen Bildschirmwelt nicht restlos überlassen wollen.(Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine früh...

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Latvian-born architect Gunnar Birkerts belongs to the second wave of modernists who arrived in the United States from abroad, a group that includes Kevin Roche and Cesar Pelli among others. Educated at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Birke...

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Que la revolucin digital es una de las ms cruciales de la historia de la humanidad ya no hay quien lo discuta. A tal punto ha modificado nuestra vida cotidiana que ya no podramos pensarnos sin la asistencia de una pantalla, de un telfono celular, ...

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