French - 20th century
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Shame
$12.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon,” begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 09 1998
- ISBN10: 1583220186
- Language: English
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Prisoner of Love
$24.95 Add to cartStarting in 1970, Jean Genet–petty thief, prostitute, modernist master–spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people… [more below]
- Author: Genet, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: January 31 2003
- ISBN10: 1590170288
- Language: English
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The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991: Journals 1976-1991
$24.95 Read moreThe Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert’s journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself — a m… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1937658228
- Language: English
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La Vergüenza
$12.95 Read moreUna escena familiar, y sus consecuencias perturbadoras, diseccionadas por la autora que ha hecho de su vida materia literaria.
En 1952, cuando Annie Ernaux tenÃa doce años, su padre quiso matar a su
- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 6070796373
- Language: Spanish
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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$38.33 Read moreKnown as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a… [more below]
- Author: Zaretsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 022654933X
- Language: English
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Matisse in the 1930s
$50.00 Read moreThe first in-depth examination of Matisse’s work in the 1930s, a key decade of creative innovation and renewal for this celebrated artist
In 1930, as Henri Matisse (1869-1954) embarked on The Dance,- Author: Affron, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0876332998
- Language: English
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El Acontecimiento
$12.95 Read moreUna mujer ante una sociedad en la que el aborto es un tab? (y un delito).
En octubre de 1963, cuando Annie Ernaux se halla en Ruan estudiando filolog?a, descubre que est? embarazada. Desde el primer mo
- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 607079639X
- Language: Spanish
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Yoga
$28.00 Read moreNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Guardian
This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. Emmanuel Carr鑽e is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0374604940
- Language: English
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Interventions 2020
$110.75 Add to cartThe death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the p
- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1509549951
- Language: English
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Prisoner of Love
$24.95 Add to cartStarting in 1970, Jean Genet–petty thief, prostitute, modernist master–spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people… [more below]
- Author: Genet, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: January 31 2003
- ISBN10: 1590170288
- Language: English
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The War: A Memoir
$22.67 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras’s haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder
Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras’s rivet
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565842219
- Language: English
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Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction
$30.00 Add to cartOther books have tried to explain Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the twentieth century’s most important and elusive thinkers, in general terms. However, Todd May organizes his introduction around … [more below]
- Author: May, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: January 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0521603846
- Language: English
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Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom
$15.99 Add to cartIn the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protégé and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Pri
- Author: Burger, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0358108527
- Language: English
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Saint-Exupery: A Biography
$36.99 Add to cartFrom a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exup?y disappeared at age forty-four during a reco- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0805079130
- Language: English
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
$26.00 Add to cartDamned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett… [more below]
- Author: Knowlson, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: April 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141250
- Language: English
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Albert Camus: A Life
$24.99 Add to cartIn this vibrant, engaging biography of Albert Camus, the internationally acclaimed author of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has richly tapped resourc… [more below]
- Author: Todd, Olivier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0786707399
- Language: English
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A Frozen Woman
$15.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux’s teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in he- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 08 1996
- ISBN10: 188836338X
- Language: English
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Difference and Repetition
$26.95 Read moreThis brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuze’s most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers,… [more below]
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 18 1995
- ISBN10: 0231081596
- Language: English
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Things Seen
$17.95 Add to cart“Annie Ernaux’s work,” wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, “represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory.” In th
- Series: French Voices (Bison Paperback)
- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803228155
- Language: English
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On the Wandering Paths
$19.95 Read moreA walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present–more than 425,000 copies sold in France
After a free-climbing a
- Series: Univocal
- Author: Tesson, Sylvain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 02, 2022
- ISBN10: 1517912814
- Language: English
