Autobiography of a Corpse
8 best books like Autobiography of a Corpse (Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky): The Invention of Morel, The Weight of Things, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, The Communist Hypothesis, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, Unquiet Land
| Author | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| ISBN | 1590170571 |
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance,...
| Author | Marianne Fritz |
| ISBN | 0989760774 |
The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948–2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel—awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978—she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called...
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
| Author | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 0143039075 |
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different...
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 1565844343 |
Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all...
| Author | Alain Badiou |
| ISBN | 1844676005 |
“We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy—the form of state suited to capitalism—and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.”—Alain...
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
| Author | Jürgen Habermas |
| ISBN | 0262581086 |
This is Jürgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation...
| Author | Sharon Shinn |
| ISBN | 0425277038 |
From the national bestselling author of Jeweled Fire and Royal Airs comes the latest novel in the Elemental Blessings series.
Leah Frothen has returned home. But she can scarcely catch her breath before she is summoned by regent Darien Serlast, the man who made her a spy. Leah is reluctant to...
