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  • Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud – The Messengers
    Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud – The Messengers
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    A Kafkaesque odyssey across a dreamlike, universal landscape An unnamed adolescent drifter wanders through an unnamed country at an unspecified point in time in search of warmth and comfort. He [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
    Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
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    A rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Stephane Mallarme – The Book
    Stephane Mallarme – The Book
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    Frequently quoted but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) was modernism’s great [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Fernando Pessoa – The Book Of Disquiet
    Fernando Pessoa – The Book Of Disquiet
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    Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Milo Rigaud – Secrets Of Voodoo
    Milo Rigaud – Secrets Of Voodoo
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    Secrets of Voodoo traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Lahougue – Vacated Landscape
    Jean Lahougue – Vacated Landscape
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    A truly mind-bending novel from an author prized for his experimental fusions of nouveau roman techniques and Oulipian constraints An editor at a Parisian publishing house receives a manuscript [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
    John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
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    In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
    Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
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    Hero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Louys – Pybrac
    Pierre Louys – Pybrac
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    A manuscript of obscenely erotic poetry from Pierre Louÿs, written in secret and published after his death By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
    Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
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    “Can’t sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.” In a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
    Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
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    When published in 1928, Vulturnus represented a new direction in Léon-Paul Fargue’s writing: a shift from the lyrical post-Symbolist melancholy of his early poetry to something more grandiose, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alexander M Frey – Fantastic Orgy
    Alexander M Frey – Fantastic Orgy
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    Maimed beggars, female automatons, cultural prosthetics: four tales of opulence, poverty and grotesque empathy from the Weimar Republic First published in 1924, Fantastic Orgy is most notable for [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Paul Scheerbart – Munchausen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel
    Paul Scheerbart – Munchausen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel
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    Baron Munchausen returns with visions of mobile architecture and journeys to sausage moons, in this previously untranslated novel from Paul Scheerbart It is 1905 and a raging stupidity is holding [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mises – Stapelia Mixta
    Mises – Stapelia Mixta
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    A compilation of 16 rigorous, eccentric essays commissioned by the German founder of psychophysics The original 1824 German publication of Stapelia Mixta united a bevy of eccentric proposals, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hugo Ball – Flametti, or the Dandyism of the Poor
    Hugo Ball – Flametti, or the Dandyism of the Poor
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    A semi-autobiographical novel portraying a frenetic and literary Zurich as the backdrop to the Dada movement In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886–1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rachilde – The Tower Of Love
    Rachilde – The Tower Of Love
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    When Jean Maleux, a young sailor, is appointed assistant keeper of the Ar-Men lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, he is drawn into a dark world of physical peril, sexual […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ursula Parrott – Ex-Wife
    Ursula Parrott – Ex-Wife
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    An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age—and still resonates today. It’s 1924, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
    Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
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    Equal parts dark, destructive and brilliant, Maldoror blazed the way for the 20th century’s boldest adventures in art, music and literature André Breton described Maldoror as “the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hermann Burger – Diabelli
    Hermann Burger – Diabelli
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    Together with other disillusioned illusionists, the titular magician exposes the dark underside of art, intent on unveiling life’s elegant deception In following the tales of these magicians of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
    Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
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    How do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
    Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
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    The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez A masterpiece of the surreal [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
    Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
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    The hallucinatory English-language debut of an overlooked German Expressionist poet Bess Brenck Kalischer’s only work of prose was first published in German in 1922. Narrated by a woman being [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Louis Levy – Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah: From the Notes of Dr. Renard de Montpensier
    Louis Levy – Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah: From the Notes of Dr. Renard de Montpensier
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    Originally published in Danish in 1910, Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah is a fevered pulp novel that reads like nothing else of its time: an anomaly within […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Todd Grimson – Stainless
    Todd Grimson – Stainless
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    A bloody, erotic love story from “the greatest horror writer you’ve never read . . . In Stainless, Todd Grimson set out to write ‘the Ultimate, Final Vampire Novel’—and succeeded.” […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
    Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
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    A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
    Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
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    In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jacques Sternberg – The Employee
    Jacques Sternberg – The Employee
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    A nameless employee stands outside the door to an office, hesitating to enter because he is five minutes late. This banal opening then launches into a frenetic narrative that switches […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon Bloy – Sweating Blood
    Leon Bloy – Sweating Blood
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    First published in French in 1893, Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the “Pilgrim of the Absolute,” Léon […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Emil Szittya – The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards
    Emil Szittya – The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards
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    For devotees of Dada and Surrealism, this outlandish, unconventional collection of prose poems amplifies a formerly invisible voice of European modernism Emil Szittya’s earliest known work of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.K Huysmans – Domesticity
    J.K Huysmans – Domesticity
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    Steeped in sardonic pessimism, this ode to sterility was one of the author’s own favorite novels of his career Joris-Karl Huysmans’ semi-autobiographical third novel, first published in French in [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Ray – The City of Unspeakable Fear
    Jean Ray – The City of Unspeakable Fear
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    Miss Marple meets H.P. Lovecraft in Ray’s genre-defying tale of ghostly intrigue and murder Published in occupied Belgium in 1943 a few months after his celebrated novel Malpertuis, The City […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
    Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
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    Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters with sex, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
    Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
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    Carol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children
    Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children
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    Nobodaddy’s Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
    Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
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    The Oppermann brothers consider themselves exemplary German citizens: cultured, liberal, proud contributors to society. One runs the trusted Oppermann furniture chain. One is an eminent surgeon. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gary Indiana – Rent Boy
    Gary Indiana – Rent Boy
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    It’s New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Charles Neider – The Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones
    Charles Neider – The Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones
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    The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy. Hendry Jones isn’t quite Billy […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lutz Seiler – Star 111
    Lutz Seiler – Star 111
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    Star 111 (the name of a popular East German transistor radio) begins with the world turned upside down. It is the fall of 1989. The communist government of the GDR […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Andre Breton – Nadja
    Andre Breton – Nadja
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    In Paris, during the fall of 1926, André Breton met a young woman from the provinces who called herself Nadja because, she said, “in Russian it’s the beginning of the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Antonio Di Benedetto – The Suicides
    Antonio Di Benedetto – The Suicides
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    A stymied reporter in his early thirties embarks on an investigation of three unconnected suicides. All he has to go on are photos of the faces of the dead. Other […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Thomas Pynchon – V.
    Thomas Pynchon – V.
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    Acclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon’s wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and “V.,” [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Charles Mingus – Beneath The Underdog
    Charles Mingus – Beneath The Underdog
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    Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Harald Voetmann – Visions And Temptations
    Harald Voetmann – Visions And Temptations
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    In the eleventh century, in the city of Regensburg, Othlo of St. Emmeram lies on his sickbed and takes a journey through Heaven and Hell. Spurning carnal desire and earthly […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joy Williams – The Visiting Privilege: New & Collected Stories
    Joy Williams – The Visiting Privilege: New & Collected Stories
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    Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marcel Benabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books
    Marcel Benabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books
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    Marcel Bénabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Chris Marker – Eternal Current Events: Early Writings
    Chris Marker – Eternal Current Events: Early Writings
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    Before making his first films in the 1950s, Chris Marker was a regular contributor to the Paris-based magazine Esprit from 1946 to 1952. Unbound by genre or form, Marker’s pieces […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean-Patrick Manchette – Fatale
    Jean-Patrick Manchette – Fatale
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    Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aimée is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Invention Of Morel
    Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Invention Of Morel
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    Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Harry Crews – The Knockout Artist
    Harry Crews – The Knockout Artist
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    A favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia whose champion rise is diverted by a vulnerability, or […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jan Kerouac – Baby Driver
    Jan Kerouac – Baby Driver
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    “Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue.” Fifteen-year-old Jan is pregnant, gamely living off rice and whatever fish […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive