Religion and Nothingness

Author	Julien Gracq
ISBN	0002712245

The great maritime state of Orsenna has long been lulled by settled peace and prosperity. It is three hundred years since it was actively at war with its traditional enemy two days' sail across the water, the savage land of Farghestan - a slumbering but by no means extinct volcano. The narrator of this...

Author	Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN	0140286802

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through...

Author	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN	0192837761

Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters...

Author	Ki-ho Lee
ISBN	1564789195

Emerging from the allegorical Institution—a brutal place where frequent illogical and inexplicable beatings plague the inhabitants—the narrator and Si-bong take refuge at the home of a foul-mouthed alcoholic prostitute (Si-bong’s sister) and her companion known only as the man with the...

Author	Caitlín R. Kiernan
ISBN	1616963026

With an introduction by Richard Kadrey

“One of our essential writers of dark fiction.”
—New York Times

Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of dark fantasy and horror’s most acclaimed and influential short fiction writers. Her powerful, unexpected stories shatter morality,...

Author	László Krasznahorkai
ISBN	0811226085

The Last Wolf features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another, dragged about a cold foreign place, appalled by a...

Author	Graham Harman
ISBN	1846947006

In this book the metaphysical system of Graham Harman is presented in lucid form, aided by helpful diagrams. In Chapter 1, Harman gives his most forceful critique to date of philosophies that reject objects as a primary reality. All such rejections are tainted by either an undermining or overmining...