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José Agustín
Vicious Circle
Peering into the labyrinth of Mexico’s justice system in the 1970s, Vicious Circle could have been written yesterday. Mexican playwright José Agustín skillfully integrates enduring themes relevant in contemporary Mexico—drugs, crime, and corruption.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Chris Andrews
Formules 20
La notion de forme continue à susciter des débats théoriques dans les études littéraires et dans l’esthétique. Qu’est-ce qu’une forme, au juste? Le consensus sur une définition n’est pas près de s’imposer, car les théoriciens peinent souvent à s'entendre.
€29,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Teresa of Avila
The Complete Poetry
'Eric W. Vogt is one of the very finest Golden Age scholars in the United States and a major translator. I salute his astonishing translation of Teresa of Avila's poetry'. Alain Saint-Saëns (Professor of Spanish History, Universidad del Norte, Paraguay).
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
   
Julio Baena
Dividuals
Dividuals explores the other side, or hidden side of modern subjectivity, as seen in early modern Spanish classics. This essay looks into how, as humans, and as humanists, we have a long history of showing dividuality, a never-ending split in our beings.
€29,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
MARIBEL BARRETO
CUPIDITÉ
Cupidité, qui dénonce la dictature d'Alfredo Stroessner, est aussi un roman féministe, au sens où il met en scène des femmes, vieilles et jeunes, qui luttent contre le machisme ambiant et se réinventent à la mort du fils, mari, frère et même père secret.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Robert E. Bayliss
Peculiar Lives in Early Modern Spain
The essays collected in this volume, Peculiar Lives in Early Modern Spain, reflect both the substance and impact of Amy Williamsen's professional legacy. Essays are linked by their thematic resonance with Amy’s own eclectic scholarship.
€29,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
JON BENON
ELSBURG, USA
In the tradition of Joyce’s Dubliners and Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, this topographical cycle of twelve interrelated stories explores the patterns of power that permeate the lives of more than thirty characters in the mythological town of Elsburg, USA.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
JON BENON
SIGN OF JONAH
The unnamed protagonist in this fast-paced, autofictional Bildungsroman experiences a memorial journey through touchstones in his life after suffering a debilitating heart attack. A very funny and hilarious true American novel by a great writer.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Camille Bloomfield
Formules 16
À cinquante ans, l’Oulipo manifeste une capacité inattendue à fédérer plusieurs générations d’écrivains. En effet, une des caractéristiques principales de ce groupe constitué est de substituer une génération à une autre dans une épiphanie du (re)nouveau.
€29,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Philippe Bootz
Formules 18
La literature s’est emparée du numérique, non seulement comme un outil, mais aussi comme d’une formidable résonnance aux questions qui sont siennes, pour entrer elle-même en résonnance avec son époque et donner les formes littéraires numériques.
€29,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Michael Bradburn-Ruster
The Shadow of Gabriel's Wing
The poems in this collection arise from the vivid awareness that we are immersed in mystery. Dwelling in the shadow of Gabriel’s wing, we are to embrace the plenitude of miracle and melancholy that weave our lives. Bradburn-Ruster is a magnificent poet.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Ian W. Brown
China Memories.
These memories derive from a journey that the author took in China in February and March of 1999 as a member of the Zhong Xian Archaeological Project. His trip largely focused on the province of Sichuan, but several days were spent in and around Beijing.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Sarah Chloe Burns
MATILDA OF ARGYLL
Matilda of Argyll is a bold and dramatic adventure, ripped from the pages of Medieval History, seen through the eyes and told from the heart of those who lived through this epic period. Historian Sarah Chloe Burns wrote a magnificent historical novel.
€24,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Roser Caminals
The Street of the Three Beds
When Roser Caminals was ten years old her family moved to the old city, with its potpourri of blind lottery peddlers, sailors from all over the world walking up from the harbor, fishmongers, tourists, that finds its way into her fiction.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Jacques Chirac
La Nouvelle-Orléans et son port en 1954
Ce livre, La Nouvelle-Orléans et son Port en 1954, est le fruit des recherches sur le terrain d’un jeune étudiant de l’École des Sciences Politiques de Paris, Jacques Chirac, qui deviendra quarante ans plus tard Président de la République Française.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Dirk Clara
WOODY ALLEN'S PARALLEL WORLDS
Woody Allen’s Parallel Worlds is an in-depth study that analyzes a recurring theme of Allen’s movies, plays and short stories: his characters’ desire to escape, in various forms and to different degrees, the world they come from to find refuge in another.
€24,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
   
Cécile De Bary
Formules 21
L’Oulipo investit les savoirs de manière remarquable, et cet investissement contribue pour une grande part à la spécificité du groupe. Le but qu’il s’est fixé est l’élaboration d’outils destinés aux auteurs littéraires.
€29,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Victor Dmitriev
Philosophical and Poetic Thought of Russian Symbolism.
The philosophical-poetical thought of Russian Symbolism is Russian art's process of reflection about itself - thought, dissolved into the myriad forms of art itself. A magnificent study by one of the best specialists of Russian Symbolism and Philosophy.
€29,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Víctor Durán
Emilia
The Caste War of Yucatán which began in 1850 provides a realistic setting for this historical biography, written in the form of a novel, which describes the actual economic, social and cultural effects of this war on the North of the country of Belize.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
   
Abdelfettah Elkchirid
Rerooting the Uprooted
Re-Rooting the Uprooted. Raising a Muslim in Canada is an inside look at the Moroccan Muslim community in Quebec. The book answers the question of how Muslim values are transmitted from one generation to another in multicultural Canada.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Samira Etouil
Pierre Loti au Maroc
Samira Etouil, dans ce livre magnifique, explore le discours de l’altérité dans les carnets de voyage du Français Pierre Loti (1850-1923) intitulés Au Maroc. Cette approche interdisciplinaire a comme objectif d’identifier les stratégies discursives.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
     
Renée Ferrer
IGNOMINIE
This book of poetry by great Paraguayan poet Renée Ferrer sings the daily life and emotions of Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camps, through poems and psaums. It was translated from Spanish into French by famous French poet Alain Saint-Saëns
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Renée Ferrer
The Knots of Silence
Three very different worlds come together under one roof in the sordid confines of a striptease joint in Paris. Poetic and vulgar voices mingle and diverge through the present and past as each character tries to come to terms with his or her own identity.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Aleilton Fonseca
Un río en los ojos / Um rio nos olhos
Inscribiéndose en la tradición de la Canción ribeirinha del portugués Paio Soares de Taveirós (1148), Aleilton Fonseca hace del río un ‘espacio de encuentro, real o literariamente fingido, entre la persona poética y el objeto de deseo y de alabanza'.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Joachim Frank
Aan Zee.
Aan Zee is about the tragic-comic search of a man for his identity between two cultures. It is a modern Bildungsroman, in the sense that the heroe searches for a purpose and is transformed in the process.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Edward Friedman
Starting Times
“Try again. Fail again. Fail better,” Samuel Beckett once said. Starting Times is an admirable play that reminds us of Spanish Golden Age theater’s quid pro quo situations. It is Edward Friedman's first original play.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Ion Gaina
THE WORD
A Romanian-English bilingual edition of Romanian poet Ion Găină. The Word (the ABC of the Young Creator) is rooted in the author's childhood. A magnificent book teaching the alphabet with poems and drawings. Translated by Olga Amarie and Rosemary Lloyd.
€24,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Anthony J. GRUBBS
The Playwright's Perspective. Innovative Dramaturgy and its Poetics in Early Modern Spain.
The dramatic text, transformed and reincarnated with each interpretation onstage, was in a constant state of flux in the Spanish Golden Age. Implication of performance and audience reception modified playwright's perception and liberated dramatic theory.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
LANIN GYURKO
SPELLBOUND
This latest work by Lanin A. Gyurko explores the decisive impact of the films of one of the greatest of film directors, Alfred Hitchcock, on the intricate literary art of Latin America's outstanding novelist and short story writer Carlos Fuentes.
€24,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
   
Lucile Haute
Formules 22
Les outils et technologies numériques, bien intégrés et invisibles, donnent lieu à des pratiques artistiques d'appropriation, de détournement, d'expérimentation et de création qui peuvent être abordées d'un point de vue poétique aussi bien que critique.
€29,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
       
Ilinca Ilian
Alain Saint-Saëns dramaturgo.
Los trabajos reunidos en este libro representan un homenaje internacional por 17 universitarios y escritores al escritor de origen francés radicado desde 2008 en Paraguay, país cuyo destino histórico ha marcado poderosamente su universo mental y literario
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
       
Clara Janés
Ophelia's Voice
'Was it an intuition that made me select -- I think at the beginning of my adolescence – a form of approach to life linked to English literature through Shakespeare? And can one talk in this case of literature? I think not.' Clara Janés, Spanish poet.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
       
Victor Kocay
Schémas du désir
French poet Saint-John Perse published the final version of AMERS in 1957, just three years before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. For some, this poem is Perse's masterpiece. First, it is a poem on the sea, so vital in the history of men.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Paschal Kyiiripuo Kyoore
Dagara Folk Tales
Tales were collected over a number of years in the Nandom area (Ghana) among the Dagara people who live in Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Côte d’Ivoire. They reflect the beliefs and values of the Dagara people, and how they relate to the fauna and flora.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
     
Michèle Laliberté
PARIS, BERLIN, NEW YORK
This magnificent study by a Canadian linguist analyzes XXth Century's French, American, and German popular songs translated from one language to the other ones. Michèle Laliberté shows the importance of each translator's social and historical contexts.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Virginia L. Lewis
SCHÖN KÄSTNERISCH VERFAHREN
Twelve-year-old Andrea Heinrichsen leaves her loving, if somewhat overprotective mother, to take part in a three-week orchestra festival in Leipzig. Surprise follows surprise as events unfold in this great suspenseful family novel. A thrilling masterpiece
€24,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
     
Ezza Agha Malak
ANOSMIA
This great novel will captivate readers interested in Middle East fiction. It illustrates how women may navigate their changing role in Lebanon, and documents the way the sense of smell is connected to memory. It is a fascinating story of forbidden love.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Ezza Agha Malak
The Man of All Silences
A magnificent novel about the love story between two mature people who share a lot but cannot live together any longer.
€24,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Ezza Agha Malak
What Have You Done With Your Kids, DAD?
Ezza Agha Malak’s new novel touches upon some particularly painful issues as it describes the progressive breakdown of a couple and the abusive relationship of an overbearing, Muslim man, a repulsive figure as seen thru the eyes of his own young children.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Alfredo Martínez-Expósito
LOS ESCRIBAS FURIOSOS
Los escribas furiosos: configuraciones homoeróticas en la narrativa española aspira a hacer inteligible un vasto volumen de textos narrativos cuyo común denominador reside en su contacto con la homosexualidad. A fundamental study on homosexual genre.
€24,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
MONIQUE ANNA MICHEL
LE CLÉZIO
A scholarly study of French writer Nobel Prize Winner J.M.G. Le Clézio's importance of Mauritius Island and above all its myths and mythologies. Essential to understand Le Clézio's creative writing process' origins by the best specialist of his work.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Gerald Monsman
Colonial Voices
Ever since the nineteenth-century the imperial romance has been understood, on some level, not merely as a self-evident genre of adventure capable of producing an aesthetic experience but as a political construction of ideological identifications.
€24,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Gerald Monsman
John Trevena
Ernest George Henham, 1870-1948, writing both under his own name or with the pseudonym of John Trevena, has until now been a "lost" writer, yet of remarkable achievement; indeed, he is a writer of greater range and power than any other West Country author
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
Scott Montgomery
Casting Our Own Shadows
During the summer of the year 2000, Medieval Art Historian Scott Montgomery and Early Modern Historian Alice Bauer undertook the task of retracing the medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. This book documents their sixty-seven day journey.
€19,95 Couv. souple (DCC)
   

    

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