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The Corpse Dream of N. Petkov
This fascinating novel presents the dying thoughts of Nikola Petkov, the last significant opposition leader to defy the Communist takeover of...
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Five Portraits
In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred...
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The Ratcatcher
The Ratcatcher, Marina Tsvetaeva's masterpiece, is a satirical version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend in the form of a complex narrative...
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Future Crossings
Future Crossings uses a broad spectrum of philosophers and writers--Acker, Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, Derrida, Joyce, Levinas, Nancy, Wordsworth, and...
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Red Virgin Soil
First published in 1968, this classic is a richly detailed study of the eponymous journal that was the most significant Soviet literary journal of...
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Dear Friend
In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote "Requiem for a Friend" in memory of Paula Modersohn-Becker, the German painter who had profoundly...
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The Patience of Ice
Filled with awe at the improbable, incomprehensible trajectory of human experience, Renate Wood ponders history, memory, and family. Beginning with...
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Time Gifts
Zoran Zivkovic weaves four mysterious encounters around philosophical questions at the core of human existence. Provocative and original, Time Gifts...
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Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays
Russia produced more notable dramas in the twentieth century than at any other time in its history, yet many of the plays from this period have been...
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Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity
At the center of Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity is the question: what could the term "multiplicity" mean for philosophy? Andrew Haas...
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Hieroglyphs of Another World
The author of several volumes of poetry in Russian and English, Ilya Kutik is also a consummate essayist in the Russian tradition: aphoristic,...
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Medallions
Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style, a style the Polish...
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Anton Chekhov: A Life
"Without question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and like to remain so for a very long time to come. . . . [Rayfield] captures a likeness...
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Memoirs of a Space Traveler
Ijon Tichy is an ordinary space traveler whose extraordinary curiosity leads him to the very fringes of science. Their plans are grandiose, the...
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White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
Herman Melville wrote White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War during two months of intense work in the summer of 1849. He drew upon his memories...
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Divine and Human and Other Stories
Drawing on the tragic past of Russia and its empire to comment on the issues and ideas of his day, Leo Tolstoy wrote the stories in Divine and Human...
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Miscellaneous Writings
This anthology, reflecting virtually every stage of G. W. F. Hegel's life and every area of his interests, provides the most complete picture yet...
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She Loves Me
In ninety-seven short chapters PÉter EsterhÁzy contemplates love and hate and sex and desire from the point of a view of a narrator who considers...
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Mothers and Daughters
The first psychosocial study of the female intelligentsia in Russia, Mothers and Daughters explains how and why women radicals of the nineteenth...
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Power, Money, and Media
This book addresses, as few books in English have, a broad range of topics pertaining to China's expanding media and telecommunications systems....
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The Murder of the Jews in Latvia 1941-1945
At the end of June 1941, Latvia fell into the hands of the Germans. This book is an account of life and death during the subsequent Nazi reign of...
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Music of Another World
Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, the kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, presents a disturbing...
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Escape Through the Pyrenees
Though it reads like a suspense novel, this memoir is Lisa Fittko's extraordinary story of life as an "enemy alien" in France before...
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Landscape with Smokestacks
The dispute over one work of art, Degas's Landscape with Smokestacks, was featured in headlines and on television. But because the suit was...
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