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  • Someone

    The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert

    by Michael Lucey ...
    Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something?In Someone, Michael Lucey considers characters from twentieth-century French literary texts whose sexual forms prove difficult to conceptualize or represent. The characters expressing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Proust Heard

    Novels and the Ethnography of Talk

    by Michael Lucey ...
    Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time.What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust's narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk, but also what happens ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sodom and Gomorrah

    by Marcel Proust, Adam Watt ...
    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident' The fourth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time extends the protagonist's journey of discovery into the social world of fin-de-siècle France. As the biblically inflected title, Sodom and Gomorrah, suggests, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Never Say I

    Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust

    by Michael Lucey, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...
    Series series Series Q
    Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the social and literary innovation of works by Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Colette, Michael Lucey considers these writers’ production of a first-person voice in which matters related to same-sex sexuality ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman

    by Didier Eribon ...
    Translated by Michael Lucey ...
    Series series Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
    A personal and philosophical reflection on the question of old age as a limit concept of Western thought.A few years ago, Didier Eribon’s mother entered a retirement home. Over the course of several months, she lost her physical and cognitive autonomy, and despite his resistance, Eribon and his brothers were compelled to place her in a nursing home. The doctor had warned that she’d rapidly decline ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • On the Grid

    Climate Change and the Utopia of Green Energy

    by Michael Warner ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    What kind of future would the utopian idea of unlimited green energy bring about? On the Grid, based on Michael Warner's Berkeley Tanner Lectures, raises critical questions about the sharp turn in environmental thought which addresses climate change through the form of a new power grid, driven by renewable energy and the goal to "electrify everything." Environmental thought increasingly centers ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

    by Didier Eribon, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...
    Translated by Michael Lucey ...
    Series series Series Q
    A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on “the gay question” by Didier Eribon, one of France’s foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Misfit of the Family

    Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality

    by Michael Lucey, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...
    Series series Series Q
    In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze—as well as represent—a range of forms of sexuality. Moving away from the many ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • In Search of Lost Time

    The Complete Modernist Classic in Seven Volumes

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Memory, love, loss, and the relentless passage of time—woven into one of the greatest literary achievements in history. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust is a monumental exploration of memory, art, desire, and identity, chronicled through the narrator's vivid recollections of childhood, society, and self-discovery. Across seven volumes—from the tender nostalgia of Swann's Way to the profound ... Read more

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  • Monsieur Proust's Library

    by Anka Muhlstein ...
    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Collapse of Western Civilization

    A View from the Future

    by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway ...
    The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from ... Read more

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  • Swann’s Way

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Chios Classics brings literature’s greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.Swann’s Way is one of Proust's classics. ... Read more

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