Seagull Books London Ltd - Böcker

A richly illustrated analysis from one of Europes greatest living philosophers. In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosophers eye to the famous nineteenth-century novel by Carlo Collodi. To Agamben, Pinocchios adventures are a kind of ...

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The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original commentary, The Golden Horde widens our understanding of the full complexity and...

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One of Europes greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europes greatest poets, Friedrich Hlderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesnt living me...

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Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and Mr. Zeds Reflections is no exception. Every afternoon for almo...

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A diary-like sequence of poems from one of Austrias best-known contemporary voices. Exploring longing, lust for life, aging, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, tudes is a diary-like sequence of poems by one of the greatest...

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Poetic prose meditations translated superbly into English. Austrian poet Friederike Mayrcker is widely considered one of the most important European poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The last book of hers to be published during he...

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Paul Celan (192070) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (192673) is recognized as one of postWo...

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One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal--by turns melodramatic,...

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A novel that offers a timely and important viewpoint on the immigration experience about the need for resistance to blind assimilation in a host country. In 1968, in search of a better world, a young person flees her country and ends up in Switzer...

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Rage and obstinacy are close relatives--and fundamental categories in the work of both Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge. In World-Changing Rage, these two accomplished German creators explore links and fractures between two cultures through two ...

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In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistans Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by w...

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Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as we...

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Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War Diary is not a day-by-day journal but a series of ...

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The first English translation of an Italian poet known for his uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the working man. Born in a sub-proletarian ghetto in Italy in 1930 under the fascist regime, Luigi Di Ruscio was an urchin runn...

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A novel of the invasion and occupation of Egypt by Napoleonic France as seen through the eyes of a young Egyptian. The Napoleonic-era French invasion and occupation of Egypt are often seen as the Arab worlds first encounter with the military and t...

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In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanitys true nature. What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like ...

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Hungarian Imre Kertsz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history. His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is...

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Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic politician, writer, and historian living during the twelfth century. He was a man of great political influence, and his writings are still researched and valued today. Snorri was killed on September 22, 1241, in R...

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A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews hailed on its French publication as Durass 'secret confession' ...

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April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define glob...

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No human quality is more necessary for survival than love. But while love has the power to lift us up with boundless joy, it has equal strength to crush usit is easy to lose your way within loves complex labyrinth of oppositions. The Labyrinth of ...

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In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept ...

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Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific...

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The 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 hometown to seek the man he calls master. This mas...

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In 1936, Walter Benjamin defined the revolutionary class as being in opposition to a dense and dangerous crowd, prone to fear of the foreign, and under the spell of anti-Semitic madness. Today, in formations great or small, that sad figure returns...

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This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called one of the masters of European fiction is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goet...

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After immigrating with his German Jewish family to South America in the 1930s, Heinz Magnus hopes to escape the Nazi regime and build a new life for himself. But with the storm clouds of war gathering over Europe, the Politeama Theatre in Buenos A...

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Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbachjournalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelisthas become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians. Available in English for the fi...

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A new play from Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek that deals with the 2015 terror attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdos offices in Paris. In Greek mythology, it is Hera who blinds the hero Heracles, so that, in a fit of fury, he...

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Maryse Conde is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and has long been recognized as a giant of black fem...

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