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  • Honey, I Killed the Cats

    by Dorota Masłowska ...
    Translated by Benjamin Paloff ...
    From bestselling, internationally acclaimed author Dorota Masłowska comes a hilarious and devastating satire of consumer culture. Set in a bizarro, all-too-real imaginarium of American pop culture, Honey, I Killed the Cats introduces us to two independent young women struggling to live the lives that television and glossy magazines have promised them. In a collision of street slang and mass-media ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Culture and Communication

    Signs in Flux. An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works

    by Yuri Lotman ...
    Translated by Benjamin Paloff ...
    Series series Cultural Syllabus
    Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. A co-founder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he applied his mind to a wide array of disciplines, from aesthetics to literary and cultural history, narrative theory to intellectual history, cinema to mythology. This collection provides a stand-alone primer to ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Worlds Apart

    Genre and the Ethics of Representing Camps, Ghettos, and Besieged Cities

    by Benjamin Paloff ...
    A number of European authors who survived concentration camps, ghettos, and besieged cities in the middle of the twentieth century chose not to write straightforward memoirs or testimonials but instead to fictionalize their experiences. By manipulating narrative time and point of view and altering biographical facts, these writers produced literary texts that challenge common notions of what ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Prince in a Pastry Shop

    by Marek Bienczyk ...
    Translated by Benjamin Paloff ...
    In a beautifully illustrated story for adults that is playful, philosophical, and with a wink of naughtiness, two characters—the Not-So-Little-Prince and Prickly Pear—consider the nature of happiness.Much more than a tale of sweet indulgence, Prince in a Pastry Shop touches on a fundamental question important to us all, from preschooler to pensioner: what does it mean to be happy? Is happiness to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Game for Real

    by Richard Weiner ...
    Translated by Benjamin Paloff ...
    Compared to Kafka and a member of the Surrealists, Richard Weiner is one of European literature’s best-kept secrets. The Game for Real marks the long overdue arrival of his dreamlike, anxiety-ridden fiction into English.The book opens with The Game of Quartering, where an unnamed hero discovers his double. Surely, he reasons, if he has a double, then his double must also have a double too, and so ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Romance of Teresa Hennert

    by Zofia Nalkowska ...
    Translated by Megan Thomas, Ewa Malachowska-Pasek ...
    The Romance of Teresa Hennert is a masterpiece of psychological realism and a still-shocking portrait of mixed motives and bad behavior. It renders a tragicomic vision of what happens when a society is suddenly deprived of the struggle that had defined it for more than a century. Written in 1922, just four years after Poland achieved independence from its neighboring empires, the novel focuses on ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Flame of Eternity

    An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought

    by Krzysztof Michalski ...
    Translated by Benjamin Paloff ...
    The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it. According to Krzysztof Michalski, Nietzsche's reflections on human life are inextricably linked to time, which in turn cannot be conceived of without eternity. Eternity is a measure of time, but also, ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

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  • Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

    by Thomas Ligotti ...
    Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Three Novels

    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy.Molloy, the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by Malone Dies and two years later by The Unnamable. All three have been rendered into English by the author.The first ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    **22 classic short stories and novellas of love and death, betrayal and hope—now collected for the first time in this beautiful 720-page volume!“One of the masters of the short story.” —Guardian**In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories, the very best and worst of human nature is captured with sharp observation, understanding, and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pond

    by Claire-Louise Bennett ...
    **“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine**Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Therese and Isabelle

    by Violette Leduc ...
    Censored in France in 1954, Therese and Isabelle was published for the first time in its full original version in 2000. Leduc's novella follows the story of a passionate love affair between two schoolgirls, aiming to describe 'as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love'. ... Read more

    $6.19 USD