Seagull Books
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The Blue Light
$21.00 Read moreThe Blue Light is an autobiographical novel in chapters and vignettes that travels through memory, time, and language.
Hussein Bargouthi tells his story with Bari, a Turkish American Sufi, during Bar- Series: Arab List
- Author: Barghouthi, Hussein
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090839
- Language: English
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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843
$25.00 Read moreOne of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.
What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091150
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Read moreThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
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Pinocchio: The Adventures of a Puppet, Doubly Commented Upon and Triply Illustrated
$27.50 Read moreA richly illustrated analysis from one of Europe’s greatest living philosophers.
In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosopher’s eye to the famous nineteenth-century novel by Carlo Collodi- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: June 21 2023
- ISBN10: 180309138X
- Language: English
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Letters Around a Garden
$12.00 Add to cartAn intimate glimpse into the life and letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.
In July 1921, displaced European poet Rainer Maria Rilke sequestered him- Series: German List
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 05 2024
- ISBN10: 180309334X
- Language: English
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Save Yourself If You Can: Six Plays
$30.00 Add to cartA collection of six Bernhard plays, all in English for the first time.
Save Yourself if You Can is a collection of six plays that span the entirety of Thomas Bernhard’s career as a dramatist. The play- Series: German List
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092580
- Language: English
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The Book of Sleep
$17.00 Read moreNow in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature.
What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states–metaphorically called death’s shadow or considered- Series: Arab List
- Author: El Wardany, Haytham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0857429531
- Language: English
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On Revolution
$12.50 Read moreA two-part essay on the “myth” of revolution and the figure of the artist.
Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosop- Series: French List
- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0857429051
- Language: English
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The Rest Is Slander: Five Stories
$21.00 Read moreA collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard.
“The cold increases with the clarity,” said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a- Series: German List
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: December 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090677
- Language: English
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What I Saw, Heard, Learned . . .
$19.00 Read moreAn engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book.
What can the senses of an attentive philosopher see, hear, and learn that can, in turn, teach- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 10 2023
- ISBN10: 180309298X
- Language: English
