Dalkey Archive Press
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Gentlemen Callers
$14.95 Add to cart“I would consider it scandalous if Hoex’s fiction is still unknown in the world literature canon ten years down the road.” –Lee Yew Leong, Asymptote Journal
- Series: French Literature
- Author: Hoex, Corinne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1628973684
- Language: English
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Newspaper
$13.95 Add to cartIn Newspaper, Edouard Levé’s second “novel,” the acclaimed
writer, photographer, and artist made perhaps his most radical attempt
to remove himself from his own work.Made up of fictionalized newspape… [more below]- Series: French Literature
- Author: Levé, Edouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 25 2015
- ISBN10: 156478195X
- Language: English
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Their Four Hearts
$17.95 Add to cartThe novel that reportedly caused a walkout upon publication, this grotesque, absurdist work by Russia’s de Sade follows four individuals set upon a common goal of destruction and violence.
- Series: Russian Literature
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 162897396X
- Language: English
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Castle to Castle
$14.95 Add to cartWith an undercurrent of sensual excitement, C馥acute;line paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of society and the human condition.
Castle to Castle is the often hilarious account of a baggage-tr
- Series: French Literature
- Author: Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 156478150X
- Language: English
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Nietzsche on His Balcony
$18.00 Add to cartOn 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 … [more below]
- Series: Mexican Literature
- Author: Fuentes, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1628971584
- Language: English
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Juice!
$14.95 Add to cartA lament for the death of print media, the growth of the corporation, and the process of growing old, Juice! serves as a tragi-comedy chronicling the increased anxieties of “post-race” America.
In 201
- Series: American Literature
- Author: Reed, Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1564786374
- Language: English
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I’m Not Stiller
$15.95 Add to cartA renowned novel of self-deceit and self-acceptance.
Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: “I’m not Stiller!” He claims that his name is Jim Wh
- Series: Swiss Literature
- Author: Frisch, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1564784509
- Language: English
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Amalgamemnon
$13.95 Add to cartA woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue.
History and literature seem to be losing ground to the brave new world of e
- Series: British Literature
- Author: Brooke-Rose, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1564780503
- Language: English
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Sally Mara’s Intimate Diary
$16.95 Add to cartSally Mara’s Intimate Diary, dating from 1950, is exceptional; a salacious, black humorous and
meaningful story by the influential and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When ‘Sally Mara’
begins … [more below]- Series: French Literature
- Author: Queneau, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974605
- Language: English
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The Longcut
$15.95 Read moreFrom Museum of Modern Art editor Emily Hall, a debut novel in the first person about the place of art and the artist in the world.
- Series: American Literature
- Author: Hall, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1628973978
- Language: English
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Turbid Rivers
$21.00 Add to cartTurbid River was written just before Ch’ae Man-Sik was arrested in 1938 by the Japanese colonial government. Like the two novels that followed (Peace Under Heaven and Frozen Fish), Turbid River is a r… [more below]
- Series: Korean Literature
- Author: Man-Sik, Chae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: November 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1628971495
- Language: English
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The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am
$14.00 Add to cartMathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has died younger than she
- Series: Norwegian Literature
- Author: Skomsvold, Kjersti A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 147
- Publish Date: April 18 2013
- ISBN10: 1564788881
- Language: English
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Crome Yellow
$13.95 Add to cartOn vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley’s most outlandish characters–from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable word
- Series: British Literature
- Author: Huxley, Aldous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1564783049
- Language: English
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Heartsnatcher
$15.95 Add to cartSet in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of making it rain, and the official town scapegoat bear… [more below]
- Author: Vian, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: October 03 2003
- ISBN10: 1564782999
- Language: English
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Ryder
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.
Told as through a kaleidoscope, t
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barnes, Djuna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1628974982
- Language: English
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Pierrot Mon Ami
$16.95 Add to cartPierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Queneau, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974613
- Language: English
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Dalkey Archive
$12.95 Read moreHailed as the best comic fantasy since Tristram Shandy upon its publication in 1964, The Dalkey Archive, is Flann O’Brien’s fifth and final novel; or rather (as O’Brien wrote to his editor), The book … [more below]
- Series: Irish Literature
- Author: O’Brien, Flann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1564781720
- Language: English
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No One Writes Back
$16.00 Add to cartCommunication-or the lack thereof–is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel.
No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and
- Series: Library of Korean Literature #10
- Author: Eun-Jin, Jang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: November 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1564789608
- Language: English
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Best of Myles
$15.95 Add to cartThe great Irish humorist and writer Flann O’Brien, aka Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen, also wrote a newspaper column called “Cruiskeen Lawn.” The Best of Myles collects the best and funniest, co… [more below]
- Series: John F. Byrne Irish Literature
- Author: O’Brien, Flann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1564782158
- Language: English
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Mulligan Stew
$18.95 Read moreWidely regarded as Sorrentino’s finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to wr… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Sorrentino, Gilbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974486
- Language: English
