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“pierre michon”

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  • Rimbaud the Son

    by Pierre Michon ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding, Elizabeth Deshays ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A radiant work of fiction that illuminates the life and art of Rimbaud in a way that no biography couldRimbaud the Son, widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud by means of a new literary genre: a meditation ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Eleven

    by Pierre Michon ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Deshays, Jody Gladding ...
    In The Eleven, Michon lets us into the world of Corentin, a painter shaped by—and who eventually shapes—history. Brought up among provincial aristocracy to become a favorite of Parisian society—his paintings are commissioned by Louis XV’s mistress—Corentin’s career rides the Tides of the French Revolution. His masterpiece, "The Eleven," is an enigmatic Last Supper, representing the eleven members ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Origin of the World

    by Pierre Michon, Roger Shattuck ...
    Translated by Wyatt Mason ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon’s luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a town resident, a woman of seductive beauty and singular charm.Yvonne. Yvonne. “Everything about her screamed desire…setting something in motion while ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Masters and Servants

    by Pierre Michon ...
    Translated by Wyatt Mason ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    One of Pierre Michon’s most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoine Watteau, Claude Lorrain, and Lorentino, a little-remembered disciple of Piero della Francesca.Michon focuses on particular moments when artist and model collide, whether that model is a person or a landscape, inner or ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Small Lives

    by Pierre Michon ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Deshays, Jody Gladding ...
    Small Lives (Vies minuscules), Pierre Michon’s first novel, won the Prix France Culture. Michon explains that he wrote it "to save my own skin. I felt in my body that my life was turning around. This book born in an aura of inexpressible joy and catharsis rescued me more effectively than my aborted analysis." Le Monde calls it "his chef d’oeuvre. A bolt of lightening." In Small Lives, Michon ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Winter Mythologies and Abbots

    by Pierre Michon ...
    Translated by Ann Jefferson ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully crafted works by the internationally acclaimed French author Pierre Michon. Populated by distant and little-known figures-Irish and French monks, saints, and scientists in Winter Mythologies; Benedictine monks in the Vendée region of France in Abbots-the tales frequently draw on obscure histories and other literary sources. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Pale Fire

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Series series Vintage International
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  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

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    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Series series Vintage International
    This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it has proven to be one of the most influential and enduring works of fiction of our century.Malte Laurids Brigge ... Read more

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  • Bruges-la-Morte

    by Georges Rodenbach ...
    Dedalus should be treasured: a small independent publisher that regularly produces works of European genius at which the behemoths wouldn't sniff. If the corporations did care to look at this new work, they would find, on the surface, a precursor to W G Sebald, a Symbolist vision of the city that lays the way for Aragon and Joyce, and a macabre story of obsessive love and transfiguring horror that ... Read more

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  • Paris Spleen

    Little Poems in Prose

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    Translated by Keith Waldrop ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new—and in his own words "dangerous"—hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merging of ... Read more

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  • The Necklace and Other Tales

    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Ranging from poignant scrutiny of social pretension, to wicked tales of lust and love, to harrowing stories of terror and madness, the genius of Guy de Maupassant, France’s greatest short-story writer, is on full display in this enthralling new translation by Joachim Neugroschel. The stories Neugroschel has gathered vividly reveal Maupassant’s remarkable range, his keen eye, his technical ... Read more

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