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Still Arrow Three Attempts to Annul Time
ISBN: HB: 9780857428516, Seagull Books, July 2021
158 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Elvio Fachinelli was a leading Italian psychoanalyst of the 1960s-80s whose clinical, theoretical, and radical work resonated well beyond his discipline. In The Still Arrow, Fachinelli launched an interdisciplinary investigation ranging from anthropo...
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Glance of the Medusa The Physiognomy of Mysticism
ISBN: HB: 9780857426086, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
In "The Glance of the Medusa", Laszo F. Foldenyi offers a mesmerizing examination of the rich history of European culture through the lens of mythology and philosophy. Embracing the best traditions of essay writing, this volume invites readers on a s...
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Dark Ship
ISBN: PB: 9780857428394, ISBN: HB: 9780857420367, Seagull Books, March 2021
520 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's "The Dark Ship", we experience an extraordinary new voice i...
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Zurich Transit
ISBN: PB: 9780857428189, ISBN: HB: 9781906497637, Seagull Books, March 2021
88 pp., 25x15 cm
This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel "Gantenbein", or "A Wilderness of Mirrors". At the center of both works is Theo Ehrismann, a man who cannot seem to change his life no matter...
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Science Fiktion
ISBN: HB: 9780857426017, Seagull Books, September 2019
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When a young reader once asked Franz Fuhmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with the genre. As he began writing the stories that make up this volume, however, he found himself coming...
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Answer from the Silence A Story from the Mountains
ISBN: PB: 9780857427106, ISBN: HB: 9781906497927, Seagull Books, September 2019
136 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!" This outcry against the empti...
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Jew Car
ISBN: PB: 9780857427175, ISBN: HB: 9780857420862, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Originally published in 1962, Franz Fuhmann's autobiographical story cycle "The Jew Car" is a classic of German short fiction and an unparalleled examination of the psychology of National Socialism. Each story presents a snapshot of a personal and hi...
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Blinding Polyphemus Geography and the Models of the World
ISBN: HB: 9780857423788, Seagull Books, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In "Blinding Polyphemus", Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cu...
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At the Burning Abyss Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem
ISBN: HB: 9780857424327, Seagull Books, August 2017
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"At the Burning Abyss" is Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus – a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. P...
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From the Berlin Journal
ISBN: HB: 9780857424334, Seagull Books, June 2017
136 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Max Frisch (1911-1991) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the Berlin Journal. A few years later, he emphasized in a...
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