Poems and Prose
10 best books like Poems and Prose (Georg Trakl): Collected Poems, 1909-1962, Venus in Furs, Les Fleurs du Mal, The Complete Stories, Hymns to the Night, A Short History of Decay, Mythologies, Death Sentence, Thomas the Obscure, On Translation
Collected Poems, 1909-1962
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0151189781 |
There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that T.S. Eliot himself wished to preserve than this volume, published two years before his death in 1965.
Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of...
| Author | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch |
| ISBN | 0140447814 |
'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0879234628 |
After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?
In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| ISBN | 0805210555 |
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception...
| Author | Novalis |
| ISBN | 0914232908 |
This bilingual, revised, third edition of Dick Higgins' popular translation presents the complete Athenaum version of Frederich von Hardenburgh's classic romantic long poem, and the substantially different manuscript version of the first section. The German text is en face. The six hymns comprise...
| Author | Emil M. Cioran |
| ISBN | 1559704640 |
The Poetry of Death
A Short History of Decay is a compendium of pessimistic aphorism, a sort of cosmopolitan collection of Gnostic scripture through the ages. It is entertaining, observationally acute, and compelling - all descriptions that the author would object to strenuously. I think...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521506 |
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way...
| Author | Maurice Blanchot |
| ISBN | 1886449414 |
This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote: 'A masterful version of one of the most remarkable novels in any language since World War II,' is the story of the narrator's relations with two women, one terminally ill, the other found motionless by him in a darkened room after a bomb...
| Author | Maurice Blanchot |
| ISBN | 0882680765 |
Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the remarkable aspects of his famous and perplexing...
| Author | Paul Ricœur |
| ISBN | 0415357780 |
Paul Ricoeur was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this short and accessible book, he turns to a topic at the heart of much of his work: What is translation and why is it so important?
Reminding us that The Bible, the Koran, the Torah and the works of the...
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
| Author | Terrance Hayes |
| ISBN | 0143133187 |
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares....
| Author | Nathalie Sarraute |
| ISBN | 2707301256 |
Considered one of the major French writers of our century, Nathalie Sarraute is the author of several novels, plays, and essays, as well as of Childhood, her autobiography. A pioneer of the nouveau roman (or "new novel"), a literary movement that sought to free the novel from the confines of plot, characterization,...
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
| 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...
