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Overlooked Gems and Literary Oddities: New and Recent Releases from Wakefield Press

DistrictDistrict
HashishHashish
The Children's CrusadeThe Children's Crusade
Imaginary LivesImaginary Lives
Odd JobsOdd Jobs
Mademoiselle BambuMademoiselle Bambu
WishesWishes
The Construction of the Tower of BabelThe Construction of the Tower of Babel
Psychology of the Rich AuntPsychology of the Rich Aunt
A Terrace in RomeA Terrace in Rome

DistrictDistrict

Published by Wakefield Press.
By Tony Duvert. Introduction by S.C. Delaney. Translation by S.C. Delaney, Agnès Potier.

District describes, in ten vignettes, the sad, sordid and sinister aspects of a section of an unnamed French city, and the manners in which the ghostlike human entities that live and wither within it are molded, moved and absorbed by its spaces.

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HashishHashish

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By Oscar A.H. Schmitz. Translation and introduction by W.C. Bamberger. Illustrations by Alfred Kubin. Afterword by James J. Conway.

First published in German in 1902, Hashish is a collection of decadent, interwoven tales of Satanism, eroticism, sadism, cannibalism, necrophilia and death.

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The Children's CrusadeThe Children's Crusade

Published by Wakefield Press.
By Marcel Schwob. Foreword by Jorge Luis Borges. Translation by Kit Schluter.

“I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name of Marcel Schwob. Who is he?”—Rainer Maria Rilke

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Imaginary LivesImaginary Lives

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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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Odd JobsOdd 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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Mademoiselle BambuMademoiselle 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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WishesWishes

Published by Wakefield Press.
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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The Construction of the Tower of BabelThe Construction of the Tower of Babel

Published by Wakefield Press.
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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Psychology of the Rich AuntPsychology 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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A Terrace in RomeA Terrace in Rome

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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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