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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

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 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

    $13.99 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

  • 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

  • Audiobook

    Suspended Sentences

    Three Novellas

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot, Sean Runnette, Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 37 min

    In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume—Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the author's originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Suspended Sentences

    Three Novellas

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the author’s originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jérôme Lindon

    by Jean Echenoz ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    “Echenoz is one of the contemporary literature's rare graceful magicians.” —BookforumJérôme Lindon is a genre-defying meditation on the friendship and working relationship between Jean Echenoz and his editor, the founder of Les Editions de Minuit, Jerome Lindon. Lindon published the work of Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, and Robbe-Grillet, among so many other giants. This voice-driven ramble ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Syndrome E

    by Franck Thilliez ...
    Narrated by Gildart Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 19 min

    The classic police procedural meets cutting-edge science in this huge international bestseller. Already a runaway bestseller in France, Syndrome E tells the story of beleaguered detective Lucie Henebelle, whose old friend has developed a case of spontaneous blindness after watching an extremely rare—and violent—film from the 1950s. Embedded in the film are subliminal images so unspeakably heinous ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • 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

  • Anthology of Black Humour

    by Andre Breton ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    This is Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism. In his provocative anthology of the writers he most admires, Breton discusses the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg and Duchamp, the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, the wry missives of Rimbaud, the manic paranoia of Dali, the ferocious iconoclasm of Alfred Jarry and Arthur ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kibogo

    by Scholastique Mukasonga ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature“Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings it to life in all its sparkling multifariousness” --J.M. Coetzee**In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook