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A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
E.M Cioran; Translated by Richard Howard; Foreword by Eugene Thacker
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E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of
human history--focusing on such major issues of the twentieth
century as human progress, fanaticism, and science--in this
nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the
nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching
upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of
the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence,
Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a
beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and
memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, "A Short History of
Decay" dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving
and beautiful pieces.
In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of
his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic
components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in
the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable
accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his
work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide
and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp
observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of
the human experience.
"A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into
someone's hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as
poison."--"The New Yorker"
"In the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."--"Publishers
Weekly"
"No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . .
His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine
compassion."--"Boston Phoenix
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The Fire Within (Paperback)
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle; Translated by Richard Howard; Introduction by Will Self
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R361
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Roland Barthes (Paperback)
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard; Foreword by Adam Phillips
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First published in 1977, "Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes "is the
great literary theorist's most original work--a brilliant and
playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical
to reveal Roland Barthes's tastes, his childhood, his education,
his passions and regrets.
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Voyage Around My Room (Paperback)
Xavier De Maistre; Translated by Stephen Sartarelli; Introduction by Richard Howard; Preface by Joseph De Maistre
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In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French
aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852) was punished for dueling
and placed under house arrest for forty-two days. The result was a
discursive, mischievous memoir Voyage Around My Room, and its
sequel, Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room. Admired by Nietzsche
and Machado de Assis, Ossian and Susan Sontag, this classic book
proves that sitting on the living-room sofa can be as fascinating
as crossing the Alps or paddling up the Amazon. In addition to the
Voyage and Expedition, this edition also includes the dialogue "The
Leper of the City of Aosta," a preface by Xavier's better-known
older brother (the royalist philosopher Joseph de Maistre), and an
introduction by Richard Howard.
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The Flanders Road (Paperback)
Claude Simon; Translated by Richard Howard
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During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940,
Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses,
involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a
distant relative, an orderly and a jockey who had an affair with
his wife - remember him and help the reader piece together the
realities behind the man and his death. A groundbreaking work, for
which Claude Simon devised a prose technique mimicking the mind's
fluid thought processes, The Flanders Road is not only a
masterpiece of stylistic innovation, but also a haunting portrayal
- based on a real-life incident - of the chaos and savagery of war.
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No More (Paperback)
Marguerite Duras; Translated by Richard Howard; Afterword by Christiane Blot Labarrere
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R313
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First published in 2002, Clinical Pain Management is a
comprehensive textbook for trainee and practicing specialists in
Pain Management and related areas, presenting readers with all they
need to know to provide a successful pain management service. This
major clinical reference work comprises four volumes. Three
clinical volumes deal respectively with all aspects of Acute Pain,
Chronic Pain and Cancer Pain; from the basic mechanisms underlying
the development of pain, to the various treatments that can be
applied in different clinical situations. The fourth volume,
Practic and Procedures, complements these by providing helpful
advice on practical aspects of clinical management and research,
including protocols and established clinical guidelines, making it
a ready-reference manual for the busy clinician. Innovative
features such as evidence scoring and reference annotation are
incoproated for ease of reference, and the text is supported
throughout with plentiful illustrations and numerous tables. New
for this second edition, there is a companion website containing
chapters and illustrations from the four volume set. Written and
edited by a large team of acknowledged international aspects, the
fully updated second edition of Clinical Pain Management remains an
authoritative and comprehensive guide to this growing specialty and
is an invaluable addition to the bookshelves of anyone training or
working in the field of pain management.
'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately
it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M.
Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth,
death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to
make ourselves get out of bed in the morning. In a series of
interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and
extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair,
revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our
inability to live in the world. Translated by Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet and critic Richard Howard, The Trouble With
Being Born is a provocative, illuminating testament to a singular
mind.
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The Little Prince (Hardcover)
Antoine De Saint-Exupery; Translated by Richard Howard
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R369
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"A Lover's Discourse," at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary:
Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism
to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references
ranging from Goethe's "Werther "to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust,
from Baudelaire to Schubert, "A Lover's Discourse "artfully draws a
portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves.
Scott Cairns has carefully preserved every poem he's ever published
that he cares to preserve. He's also added previously unpublished
work, spanning three decades. A careful introduction by Gregory
Wolfe and tribute preface by Richard Howard make this the ultimate
collection of Cairns' work.
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Nausea (Paperback)
Jean-Paul Sartre; Translated by Richard Howard; Introduction by James Wood
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Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is
horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he
ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts
culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which
"spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our
time -- the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is
made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil
stain."
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined
to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre -- philosopher, critic, novelist,
and dramatist -- holds a position of singular eminence in the world
of French letters. La Nausee, his first and best novel, is a
landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth
century.
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Drawn and Quartered (Paperback)
E.M Cioran; Translated by Richard Howard; Foreword by Eugene Thacker
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In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets
about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with
which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this
task, and thus, while he perceives the world darkly, he refuses to
give in to despair. He hits upon this ultimate truth by developing
his notion of human history and events as "a procession of
delusions," striking out at the so-called "Fallacies of Hope." By
examining the relationship between truth and action and between
absolutes, unknowables, and frauds, Cioran comes out, for once, in
favor of "being."
The bilingual, illustrated, and National Book Award-winning edition
of Charles Baudelaire’s masterpiece. The complete French text is
accompanied with an English translation by Richard Howard. Charles
Baudelaire’s 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its
portrayals of sex, same-sex love, death, the corrupting and
oppressive power of the modern city and lost innocence, Les Fleurs
Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains powerful and relevant for our
time. In “Spleen et idéal,” Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic
cycle of ecstacy and anguish—of sexual and romantic love.
“Tableaux Parisiens” condemns the crushing effects of urban
planning on a city’s soul and praises the city’s anti-heroes
including the deranged and derelict. “Le Vin” centers on the
search for oblivion in drink and drugs. The many kinds of love that
lie outside traditional morality is the focus of “Fleurs du
Mal” while rebellion is at the heart of “Révolte.” The voice
of Baudelaire lives in this award-winning edition that includes
monotypes by artist, Michael Mazur. “Howard’s achievement is
such that we can be confident that this Fleurs du Mal will long
stand as definitive, a superb guide to France’s greatest
poet.”—The Nation
Roland Barthes's last book, combining a selection of photographs with reflections on photography. It begins as as an investigation into the nature of photographs, and then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.
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Nadja (Paperback)
Andre Breton; Translated by Richard Howard
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R238
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Nadja, André Breton’s most frankly autobiographical book, is the quintessential Surrealist romance. With its blend of intimate confession and sense of the marvellous, Nadja weaves a mysterious and compelling tapestry of daily life as seen through a uniquely magical perspective. The core of Nadja is Breton’s complex relationship with an unpredictable and unconventional young woman, ‘the extreme limit of the Surrealist aspiration’. Combining autobiographical fact with memory and imagination, Breton both spins one of the most unusual love stories in modern literature and illustrates the notion of ‘petrifying coincidence’, a cornerstone of Surrealist thought. First published in 1928, Nadja has long been regarded as the most important and influential work to emerge from Surrealism. This edition features Richard Howard’s masterful translation and a new introduction by Breton biographer Mark Polizzotti that details the circumstances of the book’s composition.
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A Happy Death (Paperback, New Ed)
Jean Sarocchi; Albert Camus; Notes by Jean Sarocchi; Translated by Richard Howard
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Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. In many ways A Happy Death is a fascinating first sketch for The Outsider, but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait, drawing on Camus's memories of his youth, travels and early relationships. It is infused with lyrical descriptions of the sun-drenched Algiers of his childhood - the place where, eventually, Mersault is able to find peace and die 'without anger, without hatred, without regret'.
The celebrated, National Book Award winning, translation of
Baudelaire's masterpiece. "It is the English edition to
acquire."-Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winning poet and
translator, Richard Howard, gives readers the true voice of
Baudelaire in this masterful translation. Charles Baudelaire's 1857
masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex,
same-sex love, death, the corrupting and oppressive power of the
modern city and lost innocence, Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of
Evil) remains powerful and relevant for our time. In "Spleen et
ideal," Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstacy and
anguish-of sexual and romantic love. "Tableaux Parisiens" condemns
the crushing effects of urban planning on a city's soul and praises
the city's anti-heroes including the deranged and derelict. "Le
Vin" centers on the search for oblivion in drink and drugs. The
many kinds of love that lie outside traditional morality is the
focus of "Fleurs du Mal" while rebellion is at the heart of
"Revolte." "Howard's achievement is such that we can be confident
that his Flowers of Evil will long stand as definitive, a superb
guide to France's greatest poet."-The Nation
Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of
Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, "The History of
Anti-Semitism" presents in elegant and thoughtful language a
balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that
is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe.
"From the Time of Christ to the Court Jews" systematically traces
the twists and turns of hatred against Jews as it developed from
Roman times to the end of the eighteenth century. Chiefly the
history of prejudice against the Ashkenazim, this volume
demonstrates that organized anti-Semitism was unknown until the
First Crusade, an event that marked the beginning of systematic
genocide and mass expulsions in Europe. Jews were accused of
countless crimes, from causing the Black Death to practicing ritual
murder, and the author attempts throughout to reveal the
sociological and psychological forces behind these irrational
charges.
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