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By: De Nerval, Gerard
Little Castles of Bohemia: Prose and Poetry
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Fully translated into English for the first time, Nerval’s autobiographical anthology encompasses his complete literary career, which influenced such authors as Marcel Proust, Andr? Breton and Antonin

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- Author: De Nerval, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1962728080
- Language: English
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By: Kurahashi, Yumiko
Scorpions
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A shocking and transgressive work from one of the key figures of postwar Japanese fiction

Yumiko Kurahashi’s 1963 novella Scorpions takes the form of a transcript of a one-sided interview with L follow

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- Author: Kurahashi, Yumiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1962728102
- Language: English
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By: Rachilde
The Tower of Love
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“A captivating exercise in intriguing symbolism.” –John Taylor, Times Literary Supplement

When Jean Maleux, a young sailor, is appointed assistant keeper of the Ar-Men lighthouse off the coast of Brit

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- Author: Rachilde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1962728005
- Language: English
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By: Lusson, Pierre
A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go
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An introduction to the ancient Japanese strategy game of Go by Oulipo members Pierre Lusson, Georges Perec and Jacques Roubaud

Written by a mathematician, a poet and a mathematician-poet, this 1969 gui

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- Author: Lusson, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1939663431
- Language: English
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By: Scheerbart, Paul
Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel
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“The serene and gentle amazement with which Scheerbart] tells of the strange natural laws of other worlds . . . makes him one of those humorists who, like Lichtenberg or Jean Paul, seem never to forg

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- Author: Scheerbart, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: December 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0984115595
- Language: English
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By: Cavazzoni, Ermanno
Brief Lives of Idiots
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A blissful and baneful litany of human stupidity, from Italian fantastical absurdist Ermanno Cavazzoni

A parody of the medieval Lives of the Saints, Ermanno Cavazzoni’s Brief Lives of Idiots offers us

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- Author: Cavazzoni, Ermanno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1939663539
- Language: English
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By: Schwob, Marcel
The Book of Monelle
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The unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by Mallarm?, Jarry and Gide, in a new translation

When Marcel Schwob published The Book of Monelle in French in 1894, it immediately becam… [more below]
- Author: Schwob, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0984115587
- Language: English
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By: Brion, Marcel
Waystations of the Deep Night
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A canonical gem of the nocturnal fantastic, in the tradition of German Romantics such as E.T.A. Hoffmann and Novalis

First published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection Waystations

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- Author: Brion, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1939663504
- Language: English
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By: Schwob, Marcel
The Children’s Crusade
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“I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work And to think I’d never heard the name of Marcel Schwob. Who i

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- Author: Schwob, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1939663350
- Language: English
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By: Schwob, Marcel
Imaginary Lives
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“The art of the biographer consists specifically in choice. He is not meant to worry about speaking truth; he must create human characteristics amidst the chaos.”–Marcel Schwob

Imaginary Lives remains

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- Author: Schwob, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1939663342
- Language: English
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By: Willems, Paul
The Cathedral of Mist
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A collection of ethereal stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists

First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last of the great… [more below]
- Author: Willems, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1939663180
- Language: English
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By: Gracq, Julien
Great Liberty
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A previously untranslated gem of Surrealist prose poetry from the acclaimed French novelist

In 1941, Julien Gracq, newly released from a German prisoner-of-war camp, wrote a series of prose poems that

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- Author: Gracq, Julien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 193966389X
- Language: English
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By: Daumal, René
Pataphysical Essays
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Essays reflecting on the science of imaginary solutions, from an influential figure in pataphysical thought

Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws… [more below]
- Author: Daumal, René
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 31 2012
- ISBN10: 984115560
- Language: English
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By: Ray, Jean
The City of Unspeakable Fear
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Miss Marple meets H.P. Lovecraft in Ray’s genre-defying tale of ghostly intrigue and murder

Published in occupied Belgium in 1943 a few months after his celebrated novel Malpertuis, The City of Unspeak

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- Author: Ray, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1939663903
- Language: English
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By: Varo, Remedios
On Homo Rodans and Other Writings
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An updated, expanded edition of Remedios Varo’s translated writings, including pieces never before published in any language

With the 2018 publication of Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings, Wakefield

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- Author: Varo, Remedios
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1939663911
- Language: English
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By: Zürn, Unica
The Trumpets of Jericho
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This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Z rn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin in the 1950s…. [more below]
- Author: Zürn, Unica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 55
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1939663091
- Language: English
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By: Carney, Rob
Accidental Gardens
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There is a centuries-old Japanese form of writing called the haibun: meditative narratives ending with a haiku that acts as a summary or extension of the ideas and moods in the prose. In Accidental Ga

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- Author: Carney, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1925856291
- Language: English
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By: Bealu, Marcel
The Impersonal Adventure
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A disorienting, de Chirico-esque detective tale of curio shops and eerie antiquities, penned in France’s postwar trauma

A traveling businessman decides to tarry in an unnamed city, dons a new name and

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- Author: Bealu, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1939663725
- Language: English
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By: Schwob, Marcel
Spicilege
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Exquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob

“All over the world,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges,

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- Author: Schwob, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1939663873
- Language: English
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By: Soupault, Philippe
The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
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A Rimbaudesque novella of wayward wanderlust and liberty from the cofounder of Surrealism

Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter with Lautr?amont

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- Author: Soupault, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1939663830
- Language: English