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The Misanthrope
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99Affection I can endure, affectation I abhor. Empty phrases, meaningless gestures of faked good-will. These affable dispensers of embraces make me ill. Disgusted with French society where powdered fops gossip in code and bejewelled coquettes whisper behind fans, poet Alceste embarks on a one-man crusade against fakery, frippery and forked tongues. But... more...
Elie Wiesel
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 24.99Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and experience. In this volume, leading scholars in the fields of Biblical, Rabbinic, Hasidic, Holocaust, and literary studies offer fascinating... more...
The Plan for Perpetual Peace, On the Government of Poland, and Other Writings on History and Politics
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99The Collected Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Volume 11. more...
The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pleiade edition. more...
Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 69.99Noteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now. more...
One Day in Oradour
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 8.99On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men, women and children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful, moving and almost unbearably... more...
One Day in Oradour
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 8.99On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men, women and children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful, moving and almost unbearably... more...
Kristeva
Wiley 2013; US$ 69.95Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impacted areas across the humanities and social sciences. S. K. Keltner's book provides the first comprehensive... more...
ZALMEN OR THE MADNESS OF GOD
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 7.95On Yom Kippur eve in 1965, Elie Wiesel found himself in Russia, ?in a synagogue crowded with people. The air was stifling. The cantor was chanting . . . Suddenly a mad thought crossed my mind: Something is about to happen; any moment now the Rabbi will wake up, shake himself, pound the pulpit and cry out, shout his pain, his rage, his truth. I felt... more...
"Nur einmal noch werd ich dir untreu sein"
Wallstein Verlag 2013; US$ 64.69Hauptbeschreibung Die Briefe zwischen Claire Goll, Yvan Goll und Paula Ludwig sind Zeugnisse leidenschaftlicher Liebe, weisen aber auch in Abgründe des Zweifels, der Eifersucht und der Verzweiflung. Zugleich spiegeln sie Leben und Wirken dreier Dichter, die sich in dieser Dreieckskonstellation wechselseitig beeinflussten. Nicht zuletzt rücken die... more...









