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Red Scarf Followed by "Two Stages" and Additional Notes
ISBN: HB: 9780857427380, Seagull Books, March 2021
208 pp., 19.6x13.9 cm
In December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 93, Yves Bonnefoy concluded what was to be his last major text in prose, L'echarpe rouge, translated here as The Red Scarf. In this unique book, described by the poet as "an anamnesis" – a f...
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£18,99
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Rome, 1630
ISBN: HB: 9780857425966, Seagull Books, March 2021
392 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to these ma...
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Radio Family
ISBN: PB: 9780857428172, ISBN: HB: 9780857421913, Seagull Books, March 2021
400 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary circle Gruppe 47, Bachmann gained international renown for her p...
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£12,99
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Ron Vawter's Life in Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780857425522, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
From 1974 to 1994, Ron Vawter was a staple of New York's downtown theater scene, first with the Performance Group and later as a founding member of the Wooster Group. "Ron Vawter's Life in Performance" is the first book focused on this incomparable a...
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£22,00
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Rav Kook Everything is Rising
ISBN: PB: 9780300248579, ISBN: HB: 9780300164244, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the twentieth century. A maverick thinker, he combined strict traditionalism with an embrace of modernity and its heresies, Orthodoxy and tolerance, sc...
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Rubble Flora Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780857427144, ISBN: HB: 9780857422187, Seagull Books, September 2019
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"Rubble Flora" is a selection of poems from the distinguished, half-century-long career of German poet Volker Braun. Born in the former East Germany, Braun is a humane, witty, brave, and disappointed poet. In the East, his poetry upheld the voice of...
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Revelation and Authority Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300234688, ISBN: HB: 9780300158731, Yale University Press, May 2018
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
At once a study of biblical theology and modern Jewish thought, this volume describes a "participatory theory of revelation" as it addresses the ways biblical authors and contemporary theologians alike understand the process of revelation and hence t...
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£40,00
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Requiem for Ernst Jandl
ISBN: HB: 9780857424754, Seagull Books, February 2018
80 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm
Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrocker – and bringing to an end a half century of shared life, and shared literary work. Mayrocker immediately began attempting to come to terms wit...
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Rabbi Akiva Sage of the Talmud
ISBN: HB: 9780300204872, Yale University Press, April 2017
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
A compelling and lucid account of the life and teachings of a founder of rabbinic Judaism and one of the most beloved heroes of Jewish history. Born in the Land of Israel around the year 50 C.E., Rabbi Akiva was the greatest rabbi of his time and on...
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Red Sofa
ISBN: HB: 9780857423733, Seagull Books, March 2017
104 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In "The Red Sofa", we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects o...
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