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A small sampling of Siglio's ancestry, kinships, affinities, influences, unequivocal loves, objects of desire and of curiosity, in only somewhat of a particular order.
Books 51 - 60 of 60 by Italo Calvino
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Six Memos for the Millennium is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: the universal values he pinpoints become thewatchwords for our appreciation of Calvino himself. What... (read more) Used - Trade Paper 
by Elaine Scarry
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Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the... (read more) Your Price $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
by Georges Perec
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John Sturrock is a writer and critic who has previously translated Victor Hugo, Stendhal, and Rimbaud. A consulting editor at the London Review of Books, he lives in West Sussex, England. John Sturrock is a writer and critic who has previously... (read more) New - Trade Paper
by Ingeborg Bachmann Your Price $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
by Harry Mathews
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Sixty-one vignettes on the sole subject of masturbation record the imaginative varieties of this activity in prose that is playful, intimate, quirky and humane. Illustrated throughout with watercolors by Francesco Clemente that offer an intriguing... (read more) New - Trade Paper
by Marguerite Duras
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Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Lahore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Walter Abish
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Alphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of... (read more) New - Trade Paper
by Luisa Valenzuela Your Price $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
Desire for a Beginning/Dread of One Single End by Edmond Jabes
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Poetry. DESIRE FOR A BEGINNING DREAD OF ONE SINGLE END, translated from the French by Rosmarie Waldrop, is a series of short aphoristic assertions permeated with a sense of melancholy and mortality. This Granary Books edition is designed by Ed Epping and... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by William H. Gass
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Disappointed by her inattentive husband/reader, Babs engages in an exuberant display of the physical charms of language to entice an illicit new lover: a man named Gelvin in one sense, but more importantly, the reader of this "essay-novella" which, in... (read more) Your Price $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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