Faber and Faber, January 2002. Trade Paperback. Antonin Artaud is one of the great cultural legends of the 20th century. His Theatre of Cruelty altered the course of modern theatre and his experiments with the Surrealist movement have proved inspirational throughout Europe and America. But Artaud's life was one of... More about Antonin Artaud

Grove Press, June 1997. Trade Paperback. These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brothers, Claus and Lucas, locked in... More about The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

City Lights, June 1989. Trade Paperback. Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims... More about Tears of Eros

University of Nebraska Press, December 1989. Trade Paperback. Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers--among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international literary consciousness. The Space... More about The Space of Literature: A Translation of 'L'Espace litteraire'

Cambridge University Press, November 1994. Trade Paperback. Adorno's study of Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) is a sui generis document. In addition to Adorno's personal account of of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend, and composition teacher, the book explores the historical and cultural significance of Berg's... More about Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link

Columbia Univ Pr, March 1995. Trade Paperback. This brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuze's most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers, Difference and Repetition develops two central concepts--pure difference and complex repetition--and shows how the... More about Difference and Repetition

Mit Pr, April 1991. Trade Paperback. The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. In the second and third volumes, The History... More about Accursed Share : An Essay on General Economy : Consumption

Catbird Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. Never have two such important world figures collaborated in a biography: Tomás Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), the original philosopher-president who founded Czechoslovakia in 1918, and Karel Capek (1890-1938), the leading Czech writer of the time. Capek interviewed Masaryk over a number of years and produced... More about Talks with T. G. Masaryk

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 1985. Trade Paperback. This major prose work, originally published in English in 1985, is both a moving spiritual self-portrait and an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our modern afflictions. A man who was raised a Catholic in rural Lithuania, lived through the Nazi occupation... More about The Land of Ulro

Random House Inc, October 1996. Trade Paperback. More about Numbers in the Dark : And Other Stories

University of Minnesota Press, October 1983. Trade Paperback. More about Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Washington Square Press, August 1993. Trade Paperback. Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre was a professor of philosophy when he joined the French Army at the outbreak of World War II. Captured by the Germans, he was released, after nearly a year, in 1941. He immediately joined the French resistance... More about Being And Nothingness