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From Surrealism to Less-Exquisite Cadavers
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 56.00Les nouveaux mystères de Paris (1954-1959), Léo Malets fifteen-novel detective series inspired by Eugène Sues nineteenth-century feuilleton , almost achieved the goal of setting a mystery in each of the twenty Parisian arrondissements, with Nestor Burma at the center of the action. In Burma, the détective de choc... more...
Henri Michaux
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 98.00Henri Michaux is both a recognised poet and visual artist, arguably one of the greatest double artists of the twentieth century. This book presents the first detailed examination of a particular interdisciplinary aspect of his production, namely, the innovative experimentation with signs contained in four works: Mouvements, Par la voie... more...
Maurice Blanchot et lart au XXème siècle
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 56.00Maurice Blanchot est certainement lun des plus éminents penseurs et écrivains du vingtième siècle, dont le retrait et la discrétion ont laissé la marque même de son effacement comme événement de lexpérience littéraire. Cest par une démarche de dialogue avec les artistes qui... more...
Ces forces obscures de lâme
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 100.80This is the first major investigation of Camuss prose fiction to explore the developing presentation of women, from the authors earliest writings to his last, unfinished novel. Avoiding the traditional relegation of this subject to an emotional or private sphere, it traces Camuss intellectual development in order to demonstrate the... more...
Georges Bataille, à lextrémité fuyante de la poésie
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 102.20A lheure où luvre de Georges Bataille a acquis une nouvelle dimension avec la publication de ses romans et de ses récits dans la Pléiade, il est temps de reconnaître toute son importance au mot de poésie qui, dans son uvre, éclaire le mieux le rapport complexe que cet auteur entretint avec la littérature,... more...
Proust et Flaubert
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 135.80En 1908, écrire « un essai sur Ste-Beuve et Flaubert » fait partie des projets de Proust. Certes, il y aura larticle de la NRF , en 1920, « À propos du style de Flaubert », mais l'essai annoncé ne verra jamais le jour. Proust aurait-il oublié son auteur de prédilection, celui qu'il... more...
Sartre and Fiction
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 110.00Sartre and Fiction offers a clear and accessible introduction to the extensive fictional writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing comprehensive coverage of his short stories, novels and plays, the book examines the close links between the ideas and themes in his fiction and those put forward in his formal philosophical works. Sartre wrote fiction as... more...
Last Chance
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 95.00The Last Chance brings to an English-speaking audience for the first time the unfinished fourth volume of Jean-Paul Sartre’s hugely important Roads of Freedom cycle. Roads of Freedom is generally read and regarded as a trilogy, made up of Age of Reason , The Reprieve and Troubled Sleep . In fact, Sartre began a fourth volume and, although... more...
Simone de Beauvoir
Reaktion Books 2009; US$ 20.95Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir (1908?86) offered up a statement that has informed nearly all feminist and gender scholarship that has followed, ? more...
Poetic Illumination
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 73.00In 1980 an exhibition of the Illuminated Manuscripts of René Char held in Paris took the artistic and literary worlds by surprise. It featured illustrations by twenty-eight artists of an array of Chars hand-written poems. Chars artistic associations, sp more...









