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Stigmataby Helene Cixous
Routledge 1998; US$ 37.95Stigmata collects some of Helene Cixous' most intriguing meditations. A unique book, it is a testimony to an extraordinary writer. more...
Helene Cixous, Rootprintsby Helene Cixous; Mireille Calle-Gruber
Routledge 1997; US$ 37.95This first English translation of Cixous' book, Photos de Racine , explores Cixous' development as a writer and intellectual. A must for students and scholars of French feminist theory, gender studies and literary theory. more...
Élise Ou La Vraie Vieby Claire Etcherelli; John Roach
Routledge 1985; US$ 39.95Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. more...
Virilio Liveby J. Armitage
Sage Publications Ltd. 2001; US$ 40.00Edited by one of the leading Paul Virilio authorities this book offers the reader a guide through Virilio's work. Using the interview form, Virilio speaks incisively and at length about a vast assortment of cultural and theoretical topics, including architecture and `speed-space', `chronopolitics', art and technoculture, modernism, postmodernism and `hypermodernism', the time of the trajectory and the `information bomb'. more...
Elie Wieselby Heather Lehr Wagner
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 30.00World-renowned writer, teacher, activist, and Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. This profile helps students learn why Wiesel "swore never to be silent whenever, human beings endure suffering and humiliation." more...
One Must Also Be Hungarianby Adam Biro; Catherine Tihanyi
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 18.00The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as “this people has already suffered for its past and its future,” Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darker and more tragic turn during the Holocaust. But the story of the Jews in Hungary is also one of survival, heroism, and even humor—and that is the one acclaimed author Adam Biro sets out to recover in One Must Also Be Hungarian , an inspiring and altogether poignant look back at the lives of his family members over the past two hundred years. A Hungarian refugee and celebrated novelist working in Paris, Biro recognizes the enormous sacrifices that his ancestors made... more...
Beckett and Badiouby Andrew Gibson
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 85.00The leading contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou has been a lifelong devotee of Beckett's work. This ground-breaking study provides a full introduction to and critique of Badiou's philosophy, politics, ethics and aesthetics, and his interpretation of the Irish writer, as a basis for a major new reading of the Beckett corpus. - ;Beckett and Badiou offers a provocative new reading of Samuel Beckett's work on the basis of a full, critical account of the thought of Alain Badiou. Badiou is the most eminent of contemporary French philosophers. His devotion to Beckett's work has been lifelong. Yet for Badiou philosophy must be integrally affirmative, whilst Beckett apparently commits his art to a work of negation. Beckett and... more...
Conversations with Elie Wieselby Elie Wiesel; Richard D. Heffner
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 9.99Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life’s timeless questions. In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner—American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor—Elie Wiesel covers fascinating and often perilous political and spiritual ground, expounding on issues global and local, individual and universal, often drawing anecdotally on his own life experience. We hear from Wiesel on subjects that include the moral responsibility of both individuals and governments; the role of the state in our lives; the anatomy of hate; the threat... more...
Where We Going, Daddy?by Adriana Hunter; Jean-Louis Fournier
Other Press 2010; US$ 12.00Jean-Louis Fournier did not expect to have a disabled child. He certainly did not expect to have two. But that is precisely what happened to this wry French humorist, and his attempts to live and cope with his Mathieu and Thomas, both facing extremely debilitating physical and mental challenges, is the subject of this brave and heartbreaking book. Fournier recalls the life he imagined having with his sons—but his boys will never really grow up, and he mourns the loss of every memory he thought he’d have. Though a devoted father, he does not shy away from exploring the limits of his love, the countless times he is filled with frustration and disappointment with no relief in sight. Mathieu and Thomas can barely communicate,... more...









