GREEN INTEGER

(P/B) THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
First published in 1923 in Paris in an edition of three hundred copies, this satiric novel by the great American poet is "a satire on the novel form in which a little (female) Ford car falls more or less in love with a Mack truck." For the most part, however, The Great American Novel is a serious attempt to write a novel with the recognition that such a work is impossible to write within established conventions. Although long available from New Directions, this edition, by presenting it alone, puts the work into new focus, and reveals its ...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE SORROW GONDOLA
Nobel Prize-winner Tomas Transtromer is one of the most celebrated and influential poetic figures of his generation. He was born in Stockholm in 1931 and educated at Sodra Latin School and the University of Stockholm, where he received a degree in psychology. He began his psychology career in the early 1960s at Roxtuna, a juvenile corrections institute in Sweden, and worked for several decades in the field. Since the publication of 17 Dikter (17 Poems) in 1954, Transtromer has written eleven full-length collections of poetry, most recentl...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) THE MODERN FABLE
Born in 1894, Nishiwaki Junzaburo began by writing poems in English and French, his first two books being published in London. His early poems of Ambarvalia (1933), although written in Japanese, maintained a startlingly foreign air, and throughout his long life, his work was described as a "translatory," a "violation of the mother tongue. Throughout his early career, Nishiwaki continued to publish work highly influenced by Western writing as represented in The Waste Land, Ulysses, and surrealism, through these poems revolutionizing Japanes...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) SIX EARLY STORIES
When they think of the stories of the great German, Nobel prize-winning author Thomas Mann, most American readers recall Stories of Three Decades, translated in 1936; however, that edition purposely excluded several early tales of Mann’s which the translator found "tentative and awkward efforts." However, within the current literary context, these stories prove quite interesting. Translating them for the first time into English, Peter Constantine received general acclaim and was awarded the PEN - Book of the Month Club Translation Award fo...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) ACROPOLIS AND TRAM
Nikos Engonopoulos is surely one of the most curious figures in twentieth-century poetry. An ambidextrous painter-poet and early convert to surrealism, Engonopoulos joined forces with Andreas Embirikos and Odysseus Elytis in the late 1930s to change the course of Greek poetry forever. Bruised by the reception in the Athens press of his first two books, Engonopoulos spent the next 40 years in semi-seclusion, evolving a theater of gesture and sign in which were acted out the drama of twentieth-century geopolitics. For Greece, this meant mili...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) AMOUR AMOUR
In this book of 24 stories of personal Mythologies, Greek novelist and poet Andreas Embiricos combines history, myth, poetry and psychology to create a sensual, original and fabulous universe. his characters, defying all convention, behave like the ancient gods in their often murderous and pleasure-seeking expeditions, fulfilling instincts latent in everyone. (From the publisher)...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) ROMANIAN POEMS

(P/B) ON IBSEN
From the time of his earliest writings and interest in theater Joyce aligned himself with the great Norwegian dramatist, Henrik Ibsen. In 1900 he wrote an essay on Ibsen's drama, and the following year he cited Ibsen in opposition to the lack of quality in the Irish theater. Two years later he again wrote on an early Ibsen play. By the mid 1930s, however, his attitude towards the master had somewhat changed, as he briefly satirized the characters of Ghosts. In his introduction, Phillips explores why Ibsen so captured Joyce's young imaginat...
Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

(P/B) TENDER BUTTONS

(P/B) TO DO

(P/B) THE CHURCH

(P/B) DUINO ELEGIES (1931243077)

(P/B) NOTES ON THE CINEMATOGRAPHER

(P/B) TENT POSTS

(P/B) THREADSUNS

(P/B) EUREKA

(P/B) THE CRITIC AS ARTIST

(P/B) ON OVERGROWN PATHS

(P/B) LAUGHTER (1892295024)

(P/B) LIGHTDURESS