Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, January 1969. Trade Paperback. Now in paper, Georges Bataille's three short pieces of [erotic] prose which fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh. "...heaves with necrophiliac undercurrents".--The Observer [fiction][out/post]. More about My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man
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
Scb Distributors, January 1991. Trade Paperback. Georges Bataille presents the case of the most infamous villain of the Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths of human experience-the meeting points of sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and death-Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the legendary crimes, trials and confessions of... More about Trial of Gilles De Rais
Paragon House Publishers, March 1994. Paper Back. Hailed by Martin Heidegger as "one of France's best minds," Georges Bataille has become increasingly recognized and respected in the realm of academic and popular intellectual thought. Although Bataille died in 1962, interest in his life and writings have never been as strong... More about On Nietzsche
Lapis Press, October 1988. Trade Paperback. More about Guilty
Pathfinder Press (NY), June 1978. Trade Paperback. Writings of the best-known leader of the Surrealist movement. Includes a facsimile reproduction of the 1942 Surrealist Album by Andre Breton. More about What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
Random House Inc, September 1995. Trade Paperback. In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who... More about Happy Death
Vintage, May 1991. Trade Paperback. More about The Fall (Vintage International
Vintage, August 1996. Trade Paperback. Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the... More about The First Man
Vintage, September 1995. Trade Paperback. In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his... More about Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays (Vintage International
Vintage, November 1991. Trade Paperback. More about Exile and the Kingdom
Spear Marlowe & Company, July 1995. Trade Paperback. More about American Journals
Vintage, January 1992. Trade Paperback. By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of... More about The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Marlowe & Co, March 1995. Trade Paperback. More about Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism
Grove, June 1960. Trade Paperback. "Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life. The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in teh city of... More about Nadja
New Press, December 2010. Hardcover. An epic account of how middle-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, this wide-ranging cultural and political history rewrites the 1970s as the crucial, pivotal era of our time. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book--part political intrigue, part... More about Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Overlook Hardcover, January 2015. Hardcover. Drawing on scores of new interviews with close friends and collaborators, rigorous research and critical insight, George Harrison: Behind The Locked Door is a fascinating account of the motives and varied achievements of an often misunderstood man. Light shelfwear and edge creasing on the jacket... More about George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door
Little, Brown and Company, April 2011. Hardcover. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the... More about The Pale King
Back Bay, November 2006. Trade Paperback. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and... More about Infinite Jest
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul--the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how... More about Freedom: A Novel
City Lights Publishers, January 1986. Trade Paperback. Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude... More about Erotism: Death and Sensuality
City Lights Books, September 1987. Trade Paperback. In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds... More about Story of the Eye
Emblem Editions, June 2017. Trade Paperback. Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining portrait of small town Ontario. This is Stephen Leacock at his best--now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town... More about Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Picador, March 2008. Trade Paperback. National Bestseller In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage..... More about The Savage Detectives: A Novel
Knopf, June 2018. Hardcover. ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW WINNER OF THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The... More about There There
