Call Me Ishmael

Author	Herman Melville
ISBN	1603120262

Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Opening the volume is "The Piazza," a pastoral sketch that frames the collection. "Benito Cereno" -- a subversive satire...

Author	John Berger
ISBN	0679767770

QUESTIONE DI SGUARDI
La scrittura di Berger mi ha subito avvolto, familiare, ma senza privarmi di stupore.
Questa volta mi ha sollevato e trasportato in un viaggio alla fonte del mito e del tempo.

Un viaggio fatto di nomi epici scelti con cura.

Di geografie dello spazio e della...

Author	Fleur Jaeggy
ISBN	8845923789

This superbly concentrated book of creative nonfiction should not be knocked back like a shot, but rather sipped slowly like a good grappa. It consists of three hyper-brief biographies of writers: De Quincey, Keats, and Marcel Schwob. The lives herein are, as the original title has it, ‘congetturali’,...

Author	Jeremy Bentham
ISBN	1844676668

A definitive collection of Bentham’s work on the model prison, key to Foucault’s theory of power.

The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But...

Author	Walter Benjamin
ISBN	0805202412

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...