The Ghosts of Birds
10 best books like The Ghosts of Birds (Eliot Weinberger): Aab e Gum / آب گم, The Iraqi Nights, Textermination: A Novel, The Cardboard House, If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents: A Memoir, The Strange Case of Rachel K, Vite congetturali, Tyrant Memory, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays, Kassel no invita a la lógica
| Author | Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi |
"اس مجموعے کے بیشتر کردار ماضی پرست، ماضی زدہ اور مردم گزیدہ ہیں۔ ان کا اصل مرض ناسٹلجیا ہے۔ جب انسان کو ماضی، حال سے زیادہ پرکشش نظر آنے لگے اور مستقبل نظر آنا...
| Author | Dunya Mikhail |
| ISBN | 0811222861 |
The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as dark as war in this haunting...
| Author | Christine Brooke-Rose |
| ISBN | 0811212165 |
In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all...
| Author | Martín Adán |
| ISBN | 1555971296 |
Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping and passionate. The novel presents a series of flashes — scenes, moods, dreams, and weather — as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima)....
| Author | Gregory Rabassa |
| ISBN | 0811216659 |
A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005.
Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected...
Three early stories about myth, power, and sex by the acclaimed author of The Flamethrowers.
An explorer’s unknown whereabouts keep a queen in anticipation; a faith healer’s illegal radio broadcasts give hope to an oppressed people; a president’s offer of ice cream surprises a prostitute...
| 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 | Horacio Castellanos Moya |
| ISBN | 0811219178 |
Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny. The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez — known as the Warlock — who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted...
| Author | Guy Davenport |
| ISBN | 1567920802 |
I've lost count of the times I read his essay on Whitman.
Within a few miles of each other in the 1880s, Whitman was putting the last touches to his great book, Eadweard Muybridge was photographing movements milliseconds apart of animals, naked athletes, and women, and Thomas Eakins was painting...
Kassel no invita a la lógica
Una extraña llamada interrumpe la rutina de un escritor. La enigmática voz femenina al otro lado de la línea le dice que los McGuffin quieren invitarlo a cenar para desvelarle la solución al misterio del universo. Pronto descubrirá que se trata de una convocatoria para participar en la Documenta...
| Author | Bernadette Mayer |
| ISBN | 0811212033 |
“What a clear, insistent health there is here––as if the so-called world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I've read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world of real people in real times and places, a fact...
| Author | Dag Solstad |
| ISBN | 8270948438 |
This first edition has several ISBNs. This page has the publisher's ISBN. The book club ISBN is 82-574-1300-3 / 978-82-574-1300-2.
Handlingen i T. Singer starter idet hovedpersonen som 34-årig, nyutdannet bibliotekar reiser med toget til Notodden for å begynne et nytt og anonymt liv...
| Author | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 0811224112 |
Marcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, his poor soul was not ready for the fresh hell when his neighbor Dr. Williams married...
Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose accusations of elitism...
| Author | César Aira |
| ISBN | 0811221105 |
Daily conversations in outdoor cafes with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera's goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange sensations of deception,...
| Author | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| ISBN | 1681371545 |
An NYRB Classics Original
Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. She covered civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, places where she lived, locations she traveled to, theater she had seen, and murder trials that gripped her. She wrote sketches...
| Author | Sandor Szathmari |
| ISBN | 0982578121 |
A page-turning dystopian classic that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels.
Voyage to Kazohinia is a tour de force of twentieth-century literature--and it is here published in English for the first time outside of Hungary. Sándor Szathmári's comical novel chronicles...
| Author | Sergio Pitol |
| ISBN | 9684115008 |
Sergio Pitol se mueve de un género literario a otro sin encontrar la mínima barrera, de la misma forma en que gran parte de sus protagonistas se movieron por la geografía del orbe como si las fronteras no existieran. Ahora lo hacen con la crónica, el ensayo y la novela, sin abandonar para nada su condición...
Wanderungen mit Robert Walser
| Author | Carl Seelig |
| ISBN | 3518015540 |
Carl Seeligs Aufzeichnungen seiner Wanderungen mit Robert Walser haben in der Literatur nicht ihresgleichen. Sie entwerfen das Porträt eines Verstummten, eines Dichters, der, wie Hölderlin, »taktvoll« genug war, dem Leben zu entsagen. Nach seinem 50.Geburtstag hörte Walser mit Schreiben...
| Author | Susan Howe |
| ISBN | 0811226859 |
A collection in five parts, Susan Howe’s electrifying new book opens with a preface by the poet that lays out some of Debths’ inspirations: the art of Paul Thek, the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, and early American writings; and in it she also addresses memory’s threads and galaxies,...
| 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 | Muriel Spark |
| ISBN | 0395710936 |
This autobiography, now in paperback, offers a wonderfully vivid account of the people and places that inspired so much of Muriel Spark's writing, such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Here, readers will find high comedy, betrayal, rigorous intelligence, the odd twist of faith, and mysterious grace--all...
| Author | Brian Blanchfield |
| ISBN | 1937658457 |
A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography
Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitting,...
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811216896 |
In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of Written Lives. Collected...
