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What Waiting Really Means
by June Akers Seese

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What Waiting Really Means is about emergencies that never reach the emergency room. It's about a woman named Mary with no last name who rides buses and smokes cigars and watches the wind blow her bedroom curtains into a frenzy. It's about cities: De read more
Cadenza
by Ralph Cusack

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First published in Ireland in 1958, this fantastic excursion of the mind, which moves between Dublin and Dundalk on a train headed for the scrap heap after fifty years, also reminds the reader of Tristram Shandy, Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, and At read more
He Who Searches (Latin American Literature)
by Luisa Valenzuela

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A professor of semiotics who doubles as a psychologist in Barcelona visits (always in disguise) a prostitute in the early hours of the morning on Mondays and Thursdays in order to analyze her without her knowing it. The story moves from Barcelona to Mexic read more
Amalgamemnon
by Christine Brooke-Rose

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A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue in this inventive novel, which was called "brilliant" (The Listener), "dazzling" (The Guardian), "elegant, rueful and witty" read more
But For The Lovers
by Wilfrido D. Nolledo

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In the 25 years since its original publication, But for the Lovers has acquired an underground reputation as one of the most remarkable novels about World War II, doing for the Pacific war theater what Joseph Heller's Catch-22 did for the European one. Se read more
Castle To Castle (French Literature)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified officials, read more
The Dalkey Archive
by Flann O'brien

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Hailed as "the best comic fantasy since Tristram Shandy" upon its publication in 1964, The Dalkey Archive is Flann O'Brien's fifth and final novel; or rather (as O'Brien wrote to his editor), "The book is not meant to be a novel or anything of the kind bu read more
Time Must Have A Stop (Coleman Dowell British Literature Series)
by Aldous Huxley

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Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; and Uncle Eustace, read more
Wittgenstein's Mistress
by David Markson

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Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson -- or anyone else -- has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced -- and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well - that she is the only person lef read more
The Tunnel (American Literature Series)
by William H. Gass

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A strange and monumental novel that took William Gass three decades to write. When a Midwestern historian sits down to write the introduction to his magnum opus study of the Third Reich, he instead writes a chaotic, obscure and labrynthine exploration read more
The Third Policeman
by Flann O'brien

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A comic trip through hell in Ireland, as told by a murderer, The Third Policeman is another inspired bit of confusing and comic lunacy from the warped imagination and lovably demented pen of Flann O'Brien, author of At Swim-Two-Birds. There's even a s read more
The First Book Of Grabinoulor
by Pierre Albert-Birot

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A key figure in France's modernist movement, Pierre Albert-Birot founded and edited CIS--an early 20th century avant-garde literary magazine--where he published and helped to shape the work of fellow Futurists, Dadaists, and Surrealists (including Apollin read more
I, The Supreme (Latin American Literature Series)
by Augusto Roa Bastos

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Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own peoples. Latin American writers, in turn, have responded with fic read more
Collected Prose
by Robert Creeley

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Early in his career, Robert Creeley believed that his greatest contribution to literature would be in prose. Although he has since established himself as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, his remarkable body of prose work--instil read more
Zoo, Or Letters Not About Love
by Viktor Shklovsky

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Viktor Shklovsky was living in exile in Berlin when he wrote this experimental epistolary novel. In love with Elsa Triolet (referred to as Alya in this novel), Shklovsky was in the habit of sending her several letters a day, a situation Elsa accepted with read more
Tripticks (British Literature)
by Ann Quin

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Ann Quin's Tripticks offers a scattered account of the narrator's flight across a surreal American landscape, pursued by his "No. 1 X-wife" and her new lover. This masterpiece of pre-punk aesthetics critiques the hypocrisy and consumerism of modern cultur read more
A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs, 1917-1922 (Russian Literature Series)
by Viktor Shklovsky

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"One would be hard pressed to decide whether the book is more notable for what it says or for how it says it . . . Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey is highly recommended."—Library Journal Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey, which read more
The Family Of Pascual Duarte (Spanish Literature Series)
by Anthony Kerrigan Camilo Jose Cela

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Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1989, and this novel is considered by many to be his masterpiece. It is the story of an ignorant Castillian peasant and multiple murderer, and it tells of the savage impulses behind his crimes and read more
The Great Fire Of London (French Literature Series)
by Jacques Roubaud

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Part novel and part autobiography, The Great Fire of London is one of the great literary undertakings of the last fifty years. At various times exasperating, daunting, moving, dazzling, and challenging, it has its origins in Jacques Roubaud's attempt to c read more
Anonymous Celebrity (Latin American Literature)
by Ignacio De Loyola Brandao

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What if a man were so shallow that he couldn't believe his life had meaning unless he was loved and desired by millions of people? What if everything he learned from his television, from the movies, from what he heard on the radio, was treated as an absol read more