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  • Why Surrealism Matters

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series Why X Matters Series
    An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonateWhy does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist movement in contemporary terms and offers insight into why it continues to inspire makers and consumers ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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    Kibogo

    by Scholastique Mukasonga ...
    Narrated by Akrosia Samson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 55 min

    In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity.When a rogue priest is defrocked for fusing the gospels with the martyrdom of Kibogo, a fierce clash of cults ensues. Swirling with the heady smell of wet earth and flashes of acerbic humor, Mukasonga brings ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Three By Echenoz

    Big Blondes, Piano, and Running

    by Jean Echenoz ...
    Translated by Linda Coverdale, Mark Polizzotti ...
    A single volume that gathers together three of the most remarkable novels from Jean Echenoz, the “most distinctive French voice of his generation” (The Washington Post), Three by Echenoz demonstrates the award-winning author's extraordinary versatility and elegant yet playful style at its finest.“A parodic thriller sparkling with wit” (L'Humanité), Big Blondes probes our universal obsession with ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone," his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? a composite "type"?) fuses with the evocation of a hip new zeitgeist to produce a veritable anthem. In "Ballad ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Pedigree

    A Memoir

    by Patrick Modiano, Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years—shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sympathy for the Traitor

    A Translation Manifesto

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Los Olvidados

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Los Olvidados (1950) established Luis Bunuel's reputation as a world-class director. Set in the slums of Mexico City, it follows the crime-filled and violent lives of group of juvenile delinquents. The film exhibits some of Bunuel's recognisable themes of love's yearnings, social injustice, and surrealism, but with a layer of compassion that sets it apart from many of his other films. In 2003, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Murmurs from the Hills

    Rwandan Tales

    by Scholastique Mukasonga ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    **An incantatory, genre-bending collection of tales from Rwanda’s most celebrated memoirist and novelist“Scholastique Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings it to life in all its sparkling multifariousness.” —J. M. Coetzee**For two decades Scholastique Mukasonga has traced the specters of the Rwandan genocide. “That painful History is part of Rwanda,” she writes, but “we mustn’t be ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Nadja

    by André Breton ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    A new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the surrealism of everyday life.In Paris, during the fall of 1926, André Breton met a young woman from the provinces who called herself Nadja because, she said, "in Russian it's the beginning of the word for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Impressions of Africa

    by Raymond Roussel ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series French Literature
    In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after bizarre performance—starring, among others, a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, a railway car that rolls on calves' lungs, and fabulous machines that paint, weave, and compose ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sister Deborah

    by Scholastique Mukasonga ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    **A sharp and playful critique of colonialism from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature, animated by memories, archival specters, and powerful women“In sentences of great beauty and restraint, Mukasonga rescues a million souls from the collective noun ‘genocide,’ returning them to us as individual human beings.” — Zadie Smith**In a 4-part narrative brimming with historical asides, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ballerina

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France—a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano“Pithy and introspective. . . . Modiano delivers wondrous images of the tricks memory plays, sharply translated by Polizzotti. . . . Readers will savor this wistful narrative.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Paris, 1960s. A young dancer and single mother, who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD