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Winter Mythologies and Abbots
ISBN: PB: 9780300179064, Yale University Press, April 2014
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully crafted novellas by internationally acclaimed French author Pierre Michon. "Winter Mythologies and Abbots" are both set in the Middle Ages – Mythologies among the monks of tenth-c...
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Masters and Servants
ISBN: PB: 9780300180695, Yale University Press, March 2014
196 pp., 21x14 cm
One of Pierre Michon's most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoin Watteau, Claude Lorrain and Lorentino, a little-remembered disciple o...
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Origin of the World
ISBN: PB: 9780300180701, Yale University Press, February 2014
104 pp., 21x14 cm
This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon's luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a to...
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Swann's Way
ISBN: PB: 9780300185430, Yale University Press, December 2013
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, "In Search of Lost Time". In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has never been out of print and has been...
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Lair
ISBN: PB: 9780300198799, Yale University Press, November 2013
256 pp., 21x14 cm
Set in New York City in the months preceding 9/11, Norman Manea's novel introduces us to the protagonist who, like the author himself, is a Romanian professor in exile and who struggles with loneliness, dislocation, the desire to hide. Yet his diffic...
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Rimbaud the Son
ISBN: PB: 9780300172652, Yale University Press, November 2013
96 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
"Rimbaud the Son", widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbau...
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Golden Ass Apuleius
ISBN: PB: 9780300198140, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 21x14 cm
With accuracy, wit, and intelligence, this remarkable new translation of "The Golden Ass" breathes new life into Apuleius' classic work. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet as well as a highly respected translator, skilfully duplicates the verbal high jinks of...
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Girl with the Golden Parasol
ISBN: PB: 9780300190540, Yale University Press, May 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm
"Just then, Rahul saw a spot of yellow far away... The yellow glowed beautifully in the morning light. There was something different about this particular yellow and was totally unlike all others. This one entered through his eyes, dissolved in his b...
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Renegade Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer
ISBN: PB: 9780300192513, Yale University Press, May 2013
256 pp., 21x14 cm
Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" is far more than a work that tested American censorship laws. In this riveting book, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary...
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Blindly
ISBN: PB: 9780300185362, Yale University Press, July 2012
400 pp., 21x14 cm
Who is the mysterious narrator of "Blindly"? Clearly a recluse and a fugitive, but what more of him can we discern? Baffled by the events of his own life, he muses, "When I write, and even now when I think back on it, I hear a kind of buzzing, blathe...
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