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Complete Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784105266, Carcanet, July 2017
248 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1959 for "his lyrical poetry which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our time". Jack Bevan's remarkable translation of Quasimodo's entire poetic oeuvre fills...
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Hitting the Streets
ISBN: PB: 9781847771575, Carcanet, July 2013
224 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Unreeling like a series of film clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, Raymond Queneau's "Hitting the Streets" is wickedly funny. It is also a bittersweet meditation on the effects of time and memory. "Hitting the Streets" is Queneau's love le...
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Elementary Morality
ISBN: PB: 9781857549485, Carcanet, January 2008
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Elementary Morality", Raymond Queneau's last book, is in many ways his most momentous. Here he distils the work of a lifetime: as Surrealist, flaneur, mathematician, poet, student of Eastern philosophy, experimental novelist and co-founder of OuLiPo...
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Crime of Father Amaro
ISBN: PB: 9781857546842, Carcanet, February 2003
354 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm
The explosive and highly controversial 2002 film of "The Crime of Father Amaro" ("El crimen del Padre Amaro") is set in Mexico, in a material and religious culture of this century not unlike the provincial Portugal where, as a young man, Eca de Queir...
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£12,95
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To the Capital
ISBN: PB: 9781857546873, Carcanet, October 2002
18 pp., 21.8x14 cm
This is the seventh volume in the Carcanet's Eca de Queiros programme which includes "The Maias, Cousin Basilio", "The Illustrious House of Ramires", "The City and the Mountains", "The Sin of Father Amaro", "The Yellow Sofa & Three Portraits". Artu...
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£16,95
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Eca's English Letters
ISBN: PB: 9781857545005, Carcanet, October 2000
128 pp., 21.6x13.3 cm
Solemn, grand, vulnerable – and a little absurd: England in the 1880s. The gentry endures tedious country-bound winter weeks (fashion forbids them from showing their faces in London). Lord Beaconsfield is mourned, and a national legend buried. "The T...
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City and the Mountains
ISBN: HB: 9781857541021, Carcanet, August 1994
224 pp., 22.4x14.6 cm
Artur Corvelo inherits a legacy, quits his provincial home town and sets out for the capital. Armed with some poems and a heroic play, he seeks literary renown and entry into fashionable intellectual and social circles. Disillusion follows and he ret...
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£29,95
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Cousin Basilio
ISBN: HB: 9780856359675, Carcanet, August 1992
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Returning from Brazil, Bazilio tells his cousin Louisa of the brave new world. His revelation leads to a devastating conclusion. "O Primo Bazilio has a far deeper tragedy than Madame Bovary", wrote Roy Campbell, "because the girl involved is not a bi...
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£29,95
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Illustrious House of Ramires
ISBN: HB: 9780856359682, Carcanet, August 1992
320 pp., 22.4x14.6 cm
In this brilliant, many-layered novel, Eca chooses an unlikely hero, a half-ruined aristocrat, generous, devious, who takes refuge from decline in writing about the courage of his forebears. This is the story of Ramires, and of the Portugal of Eca's...
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