European - French
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Add to cartThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom
$13.99 Add to cart‘I was at one of those periods in youth–vacant, without any particular love object–when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.’
In the Shadow o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0192845675
- Language: English
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Unavowable Community
$14.95 Add to cartThe Unavowable Community is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is truly “communal.” The problem, for Blanchot, is that… [more below]
- Author: Blanchot, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1581771045
- Language: English
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The Parasite: Volume 1
$19.95 Add to cartInfluential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pe
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #1
- Author: Serres, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0816648816
- Language: English
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States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
$20.00 Read moreStates of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.
As one of the most discussed b- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0226815536
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Read moreThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Novel of the Century
$23.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Les Mis rables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s
Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537402
- Language: English
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How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
$32.95 Add to cartIn The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes’s career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to dis
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 023113617X
- Language: English
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Axel’s Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
$20.00 Add to cartPublished in 1931, Axel’s Castle was Edmund Wilson’s first book of literary criticism–a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six m
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529272
- Language: English
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Practicalities
$15.00 Add to cart“It’s the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they talk only about the practicalities of life,” declares Duras in this collection of her transcribed conversations with friend Jerome Beau… [more below]
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: October 22 1993
- ISBN10: 0802133118
- Language: English
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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
$13.95 Add to cartDeceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld’s shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: La Rochefoucauld, François de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540004
- Language: English
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The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
$24.95 Read moreAppearing in a single volume for the very first time, an illuminating and enrichingly annotated selection of correspondence from one of Western literature’s most revered writers.
“If there is one art- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377160
- Language: English
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La Bête Humaine
$12.95 Add to cartLa B?te humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a comp… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538662
- Language: English
