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  • Wittgenstein's Mistress
    Wittgenstein's Mistress
    Markson, David
    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 left on earth.Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing is her character, and so witty and seductive her narrative voice, that we will fo...

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  • Trilogy
    Trilogy
    Fosse, Jon
    Trilogy is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injus...

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  • Nietzsche on His Balcony
    Nietzsche on His Balcony
    Fuentes, Carlos
    "Of course, he was among the greatest novelists writing in spanish our era" Phillip RothOn a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below them. He reveals himself as the 19th-centu...

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  • Morning and Evening
    Morning and Evening
    Fosse, Jon
    A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different...

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  • Hypothermia
    Hypothermia
    Enrigue, Alvaro
    Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's Gold Rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, po...

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  • Christopher Unborn
    Christopher Unborn
    Fuentes, Carlos
    Conceived exactly nine months before the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, the narrator of Christopher Unborn spends the novel waiting to be born. But what kind of world will he be delivered into? "Makesicko City," as the punning narrator calls it, is not doing well in this alternate, worst-case-scenario 1992. Politicians are selling pieces of...

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  • Aliss at the Fire
    Aliss at the Fire
    Fosse, Jon
    In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the ba...

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  • Autoportrait
    Autoportrait
    Leve, Edouard
    In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Lev? hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. "Autoportrait" is a physical, psychological, sexual, political, and philosophical triumph. Beyond "sincerity," Lev? works toward an objectivity so radical it could pass for crudeness, triviality, ev...

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  • Voices from Chernobyl
    Voices from Chernobyl
    Alexievich, Svetlana
    On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred at the Chernobyl complex in Pripyat. English-language reportage on the incident has, so far, focused on facts, names, and data; Voices from Chernobyl presents first-hand accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they lived through. In order to give voice ...

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  • Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature
    Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature
    Motte, Warren / Motte Jr, Warren F / Motte Jr, Warren F / Arnaud, Noel

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  • Elegy for Joseph Cornell
    Elegy for Joseph Cornell
    Negroni, María
    Elegy for Joseph Cornell is at once a monologue; a collection of metafictional microfictions; a series of prose poems; an artist’s quest; the hero’s journey; a filmography, biography, bibliography, and inventory; a travel scrapbook; and a guidebook for creativity.Argentinian writer María Negroni transcends form and genre as she explores, with both luminous and illuminating resu...

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  • Man in the Holocene
    Man in the Holocene
    Frisch, Max / Skelton, Geoffrey
    A stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs a powerful vision of our place in the world by combining the banality of an aging man s lonely inner life and the objective facts he finds in the books of his isolated home. As a rainstorm rages outside, Max Frisch s protagonist, Geiser, watches the mountain landscape crumble beneath landslides and flooding, and speculate...

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  • Voices from Chernobyl
    Voices from Chernobyl
    Alexievich, Svetlana
    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Emmy-no...

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  • Floating Opera
    Floating Opera
    Barth, John
    John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a sail on Chesapeake Bay with his wife, but a tropical storm forces them deep into the Maryland tidal marshes. Lost, Barth takes out his dinghy to search for a way home, but becomes embarked instead on a quest through the murkier regions of his own memory-a semi-memoir, staged as an operatic cruise ...

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  • Eros the Bittersweet
    Eros the Bittersweet
    Carson, Anne
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeA book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numero...

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