Product Description: The??classic procedural meets cutting edge science in this huge international bestsellerAlready a runaway bestseller in France, Syndrome E tells the story of beleaguered detective Lucie Hennebelle, whose old friend has developed a case of spontaneous blindness after watching an extremely rare—and violent—film from the 1950s...read more

Product Description: Writing, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write...read more

Product Description: The long-awaited new translation of the most dazzling and unclassifiable work of fiction in any language.In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou...read more

Product Description: Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn't know him and another man is living in his house under his name. The imposter shares all of Martin's memories, experiences, and knowledge down to the last detail...read more

Product Description: Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn't know him and another man is living in his house under his name. The imposter shares all of Martin's memories, experiences, and knowledge down to the last detail...read more

In a tale that explores a theme of the illusory nature of identity and the instability of things taken for granted, everyman Martin Harris finds himself inexplicably dispossessed of his job, family, name, and past and launches a desperate attempt to reclaim his existence. By the author of One-Way. Reprint.

Product Description: An intensely lively and piquant novel about a Vietnamese family, The Three Fates concerns rivalries and jealousies, strange motives and destructive passions.The three fates—now three Vietnamese “princesses” in France—were spirited away as little children by their powerful grandmother when Saigon fell to the communists...read more

Product Description: The Lost Steps (Les Pas perdus) is André Breton’s first collection of critical and polemical essays. Composed between 1917 and 1923, these pieces trace his evolution during the years when he was emerging as a central figure in French (and European) intellectual life...read more

Product Description: Aptly described by playwright Eugene Ionesco as "one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought", Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and prime mover of Surrealism, the most influential artistic and literary movement of the 20th century...read more

Product Description: Nine-year-old Helen is confused by the disappearance of her Jewish friend during the German occupation of Paris.

Product Description: Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II.

Product Description: “Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable perspectives of confession and objectivity, of lyrical poetry and nouveau roman. The sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader’s mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and thought—the force of a metaphysical contemplation of the paradoxes of the human heart...read more

Product Description: Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone," his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? a composite "type"?) fuses with the evocation of a hip new zeitgeist to produce a veritable anthem...read more

Product Description: Los Olvidados (1950) established Luis Bunuel's reputation as a world-class director. Set in the slums of Mexico City, it follows the crime-filled and violent lives of group of juvenile delinquents. The film exhibits some of Bunuel's recognisable themes of love's yearnings, social injustice, and surrealism, but with a layer of compassion that sets it apart from many of his other films...read more

Raised as an Arab by Marseille gypsies, young Frenchman Aziz Kemal is arrested for a crime he does not commit and becomes a casualty of a government campaign to repatriate illegal immigrants, a process that forces him to accompany 'humanitarian attach�' Jean-Pierre Schneider on a relocation to Morocco. Winner of the 1994 Prix Goncourt. Reprint.

Max Delmarc is a famous concert pianist who finds that even death cannot cure his problems, as a brief stay in a rather luxurious purgatory leads to a trip to hell, where he tries to piece together his old life and at last track down his long lost love.

Product Description: With his trademark comically wry phrasing and a sure eye for quirky detail, Echenoz has produced his oddest and most enjoyable novel to date. Chopin's Move interweaves the fates of Chopin, entomologist and recalcitrant secret agent; Oswald, a young foreign-affairs employee who vanishes en route to his new home; Suzy, who gets enmeshed in a tangle of deceit and counterdeceit; the mysterious Colonel Seck, whose motivations are never quite what they seem; and a typically Echenozian supporting cast of neurotic bodyguards, disquieting functionaries, and crafty double agents...read more

Product Description: Winner of the Prix Goncourt and chosen by The Seattle Times as one of the Best Books of 2004 "One-Way is a funny and tender look at a world of shifting boundaries...Aziz Kemal is a protagonist for these times."-Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land "Outrageously funny...read more

Product Description: Founder of the Surrealist movement, André Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential poets. The inaugural volume in the Poets for the Millennium series, André Breton offers the most comprehensive selection available in English of Breton's poetry, along with a selection of his major prose writings...read more

A Cleaning Woman traces the complexities of desire through the sensitive, sensual observations of a man in thrall of ecstasy.As a long-standing relationship ends, Jacques finds himself irresistibly drawn to the leaflets advertising the cleaning services of an anonymous woman identified only by her initials. Once he learns her name, and the details of her affairs, he enters into an erotic relationship that challenges the class taboos that stand between them.This novel offers the unique perspective of a heartbroken man desperately infatuated with a woman he has just met. The narrator's possessive gaze blinds him to his own foolishness. His dry humor teases the reader into believing in his modesty, and we see him hilariously exposed when the story unravels around him.Christian Oster's polished style and his perfect control of point-of-view guide his reader through the psychological realism of obsession and desire. The honesty of emotion in this novel is matched only by its subversive intent.

Product Description: Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surrealism, this is the only book on the suject by the movement's founder and prime theorist...read more

A sophisticated Parisian art dealer abandons his family to join a treasure hunting expedition to the Arctic, only to find himself caught up in a bizarre theft linked to corruption in the international art market. Winner of the 1999 Prix Goncourt.

Product Description: Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is André Breton’s second collection of critical and polemical essays, following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996). In fewer than two hundred pages, it captures the first full decade of the surrealist movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cultural Writing. Folklore. Carribbean Studies. Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti. Intoxicating in its language, lush in its evocation of Creole island culture, SEVEN DREAMS OF ELMIRA: A TALE OF MARTINIQUE is a vivid and hallucinatory fable, written by widely acclaimed author Patrick Chamoiseau and illustrated with stunning photographic portraits by Jean Luc-Laguardigue...read more

A French novel on an 'allumeuse,' a woman who sets men on fire, describing her conquests from Belgium to Cuba. It is told in seven chapters, each written by a different author. (view table of contents)