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Mine has been a life of much shame. I cant even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazais No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels h...

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Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun&...

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The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanatorium where Yozo Obathe narrator of No Longer Human at a younger ageis being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and ...

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The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one p...

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The Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head,...

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In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as iconic and influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a pioneer of modernist Iranian literature and as a leading figure ...

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Although a very prolific poetand arguably Americas greatestEmily Dickinson (18301886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing th...

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Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In th...

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Paterson is both a place-the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. ...

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Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dvilas stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly craftedyoull finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dvila follows her characters to the l...

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Originally published to shocked reviews in 1932 France, a scathing literary critique of what the writer believed to be the poor judgment and hypocrisy of society follows the travels of petit-bourgeois anti-hero Bardamu, from the trenches of World ...

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Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presen...

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When My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket's glittering story of literary sleuthing and deceit, first appeared in 1983, it garnered immediate and far-reaching acclaim. Frank Conroy at The Washington Post exclaimed, "The author pulled m...

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Nine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophistica...

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These two dark stories, and the most notable works of the short career of Nathanael West, remain stunningly powerful pieces of fiction more than 75 years after their original publication.

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Provides the complete text of Pound's epic poem including a translation of Pound's Italian canto LXXII, Canto LXXIII, and a 1966 fragment concluding the work.

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In a Rio de Janeiro suburb in the 1970s, a married couple, their daughter, and crippled teenage son Camilo, take in an orphan named Cosme. Their teen boys unexpectedly fall in love, but their intimate world is shattered when Cosme is killed by a n...

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The celebrated writer lvaro Mutis envied new readers of Ida Vitales poetry: unexpected pleasures await them. Time Without Keys: Selected Poems is the first volume of Vitales illustrious poetry to appear in the US. The selection spans seventy-five ...

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Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to...

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"As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the l...

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Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they...

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By now, Yukio Mishimas (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal v...

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A great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world's most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants-a filthy cast of characters- Sublunar is both novel and almanac. Alongside sexual deviancy, spankings,...

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"Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the new poems in this collection. The title, Regarding Wave, reflects "a half-buried series o...

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Charged with sensuality and passion, Nerudas love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winners oeuvre. This wonderful book collects Nerudas most pa...

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Summoned home to Egypt after a long European debauch (disguised as study), our hero Teymourin the opening line of A Splendid Conspiracyis feeling as unlucky as a flea on a bald mans head. Poor Teymour sits forlorn in a provincial caf, a far cry fr...

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A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe's most significant contemporary authors.

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One of Sartre's greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher's existentialism.

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Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton (bad taste loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid...

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Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williamss astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any readerThe Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured.

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