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Imaginary Lives
Published by Wakefield Press.
By Marcel Schwob. Introduction and translation by Chris Clarke.
“The art of the biographer consists specifically in choice. He is not meant to worry about speaking truth; he must create human characteristics amidst the chaos.”—Marcel Schwob
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Wakefield Press
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Paperback, 4.5 x 7 in. / 192 pgs.
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Odd Jobs
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By Tony Duvert. Introduction by S.C. Delaney. Translation by S.C. Delaney, Agnès Potier.
This series of 23 satirically scabrous short texts introduces the reader to an imaginary French suburb via the strange, grotesque small-town occupations that defined a once reliable, now presumably vanished way of life.
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Wakefield Press
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Paperback, 4.5 x 7 in. / 64 pgs.
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Pub Date 11/21/2017
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Mademoiselle Bambu
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By Pierre Mac Orlan. Translation and introduction by Chris Clarke. Illustrations by Gus Bofa.
Mademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan’s take on the spy novel, written and expanded between 1932 and 1966.
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Wakefield Press
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 67 bw.
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Wishes
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By Georges Perec. Introduction and translation by Mara Cologne Wythe-Hall.
Twelve years of Georges Perec’s annual pamphlets filled with homophonic wordplay
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Wakefield Press
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 240 pgs.
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Pub Date 7/24/2018
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The Construction of the Tower of Babel
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By Juan Benet. Translation and introduction by Adrian Nathan West.
Juan Benet’s penultimate book, The Construction of the Tower of Babel brings together two essays that testify to the multiplicity of the author’s interests, both personal and professional.
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Wakefield Press
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Paperback, 4.5 x 7 in. / 88 pgs / 1 color / 4 bw.
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Pub Date 11/21/2017
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Psychology of the Rich Aunt
Being an Inquiry, in Twenty-Five Parts, into the Question of Immortality
Published by Wakefield Press.
By Erich Mühsam. Introduction and translation by Erik Butler.
With Psychology of the Rich Aunt, German author Erich Mühsam made his ironic bid for authorial immortality by announcing his discovery that immortality in fact exists—specifically in the person of the Rich Aunt. Through 25 case studies, arranged alphabetically (from Aunt Amalia to Aunt Zerlinde), Mühsam argues his case: the Rich Aunt is able to live forever provided she has a nephew waiting for her demise and for his inheritance. The corollary revealed in these tales, of course, is that a Rich Aunt’s eternal rest is directly tied to her nephew’s deprivation of said inheritance. The pathways to an immortal’s demise can thus be the result of anything from the vagrancies of sexual proclivities or the stock market to the unforeseen expenses of literary ambitions. The Rich Aunt emerges as the enduring fly in the ointment of Church, Family and State, the undoing of fate personified and the transformation of morality into mortality under the aegis of Capital.
Originally published in German in 1905, Psychology of the Rich Aunt is a caustically tongue-in-cheek portrayal of greed under capitalism in the bourgeois epoch.
Erich Mühsam (1878–1934) was a German-Jewish anarchist writer, poet, playwright, cabaret songwriter and a fierce satirist of the Nazi party. He played a key role in the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, championed the rights of women and homosexuals, advocated for free love and vegetarianism, and opposed capitalism and war. He was brutally murdered in the Oranienburg concentration camp.
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Wakefield Press
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Paperback, 4.5 x 7 in. / 96 pgs.
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A Terrace in Rome
Published by Wakefield Press.
By Pascal Quignard. Translated by Douglas Penick, Charles Ré.
The first English translation of the novel awarded the 2000 Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie Française
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Wakefield Press
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Paperback, 4.5 x 7 in. / 128 pgs / 1 bw.
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Pub Date 5/24/2016
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