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At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien; William H. Gass (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Hailed as the paramount expression of metafiction and Irish culture, and uproariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, broadening the possibilities of what can be done in ficiton. This comic novel is the story of a loafing and inebriated Dublin-based universi ...Show more
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of eros in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one ...Show more
Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo Jose Cela; Anthony Kerrigan (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality, Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela crafts a powerful meditation on cruelty and anomie. The Fa ...Show more
La Batarde by Violette LeDuc; Derek Coltman (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Dalkey Essentials Ser.
An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women. When first ...Show more
Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes--a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family--through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout th ...Show more
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel--a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arabia ...Show more
Phosphor in Dreamland by Rikki Ducornet
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet's dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form of a ser ...Show more
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Essentials Ser.
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the ...Show more
Ryder by Djuna Barnes
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
From the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.Told as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale of eccentricity and anarchy; through sparkling detours a ...Show more
Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of t ...Show more
Trilogy by Jon Fosse
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cul ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing is h ...Show more