From one of the "true originals of contemporary American short fiction" ("San Francisco Chronicle") comes this crystalline collection of investigations into the ways in which human being perceive each other and themselves. An ALA Notable Book of the Year.
An abstracted and self-referential story that analyzes and reflects on a love affair, its dissolution, and the author's attempts to turn memory into fiction.
In her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. No two of these fictions are alike, yet Davis rearranges readers' view of the world by looking beyond preconceptions to reveal a bizarre truth.
An inventive, moving collection of short prose pieces about human intimacy, identity, and the "oddly tragicomic ways of human life" (Washington Post Book World). A wife who tries to cook healthy dinners for her corned beef-loving husband contemplates her marriage in "Meat, My Husband." In "Foucault and Pencil," a trouble analysand on the way home ...
One of the "Village Voice's" 25 Favorite Books and the ALA's 2002 Notable Books, this collection of 56 stories is like nothing else. By which we mean: there is nothing else like this. Lydia Davis makes simple things complicated and complicated things simple, and it is all amazing to behold.
Writing about The Gaze of Orpheus, Geoffrey Hartman suggested that 'When we come to write the history of criticism for the 1940 to 1980 period, it will be found that Blanchot, together with Sartre, made French 'discourse' possible, both in its relentlessness and its acuity..This selection.is exemplary for its clearly translated and well-chosen ...
A novel in the form of a monologue by a Parisian teenager named Louise, who sits in a café contemplating her troubled relationship with her glamorous, drug-addicted mother.
Feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter seeks to define manhood at a time when sex-role distinctions have become increasingly ambiguous, and when age-old stereotypes about masculinity have been shattered. Drawing on biological examples, historical and sociological analyses, fiction, and biography, Badinter offers an account of the "new man"our ...
"Tin House" features over 200 pages of new, high quality literature on what each author is most passionate about -- be it in the form of fiction, poetry, or essay -- regardless of fashion or timeliness. Of the four issues published per year, this, the summer issue, is the only one unrestricted by theme. With its simple yet sharp design and ...
"I read with fervor the literary works of Michel Leiris and in particular the four volumes of 'Rules of the Game'...He is incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century."--Claude Livi-Strauss In this second volume of his acclaimed four-volume autobiography, 'Rules of the Game'--now available for the first time in English--Leiris comes ...
"Michel Leiris is the author of the most significant and arresting work of autobiography to have been written in the twentieth century."--John Sturrock "For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply."--Francis Bacon ' Scratches' is the first volume in Michel Leiris's ...
Lydia Davis's new collection, "Almost No Memory," is richly inventive array of playful philosophical investigations, involuted domestic disputes, and fables of the dark fantastic. With wittily restrained intensity, she again portrays the contemplative self caught in the paradoxical world. In 'Pastor Elaine's Newsletter, ' a harried mother studies ...
Leonide is a young man who meets Helene deSannis in Northern Italy. A married contessa, Helene spends much of her time alone because her husband is an officer with the army. She takes Leonide as her lover, and he, in turn, becomes obsessed with her. Leonide then meets the young Pauliet, a nephew of Helene and her husband, who, although dying, ...
Introduced by Henry Miller, these 20 stories, which were first published in 1932, are set in the Provence countryside, and reveal the dark side of peasant life.
The story of a love triangle consisting of a gay man, an asexual poet, and a woman who loves them both. These characters strive to find fulfillment in their sexuality and in their spiritual natures.
This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote: 'A masterful version of one of the most remarkable novels in any language since World War II, ' is the story of the narrator's relations with two women, one terminally ill, the other found motionless by him in a darkened room after a bomb explosion has separated them. 'Through ...
In the second volume of Jouve's novel (this one published originally in 1931), Catherine explores her early childhood through psychoanalysis, recovers memories of sexual abuse, gradually moves away from her tendency toward masochism, and achieves a new degree of self-knowledge.
In this re-issue of Lydia Davis' celebrated translation of Blanchot's classic mysterious "tale" (recit), Au Moment Voulu, the story hovers on the edge of the occult. Ostensibly it chronicles the troubled relations between the narrator -- a very ill man -- and the two women whose lives he invades. As in all of Blanchot's intensely subjective ...
Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism)of The Madness of the Day that it is 'a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader mad.la folie du jour, the madness of today, of the day today, which leads to the madness that comes from the day, is born of it, as well as the madness of the day itself, itself mad..La folie du jour is ...
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