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Author : Paul Morand
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811208888
Author : Paul Emile Charles Ferdinand Morand
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 1984
Category : France
ISBN : 9780811208888
Author : Paul Morand
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811208895
The complete text of Pound's translations, consisting of Morand's two legendary collections.
Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811201605
This selection from the Cantos was made by Ezra Pound himself in 1965. It is intended to "indicate main elements" in the long poem -- his personal epic -- with which he was engaged for more than fifty years. His choice includes, of course, a number of the Cantos most admired by critics and anthologists, such as Canto XIII ("Kung [Confucius] walked by the dynastic temple..."), Canto XLV ("With usura hath no man a house of good stone...") and the passage from The Pisan Cantos (LXXXI) beginning "What thou lovest well remains / the rest is dross," and so the book is an ideal introduction for newcomers to the great work. But it has, too, particular interest for the already initiated reader and the specialist, in its revelation, through Pound's own selection of "main elements," of the relative importance which he himself placed on various motifs as they figure in the architecture of the whole poem. Book jacket.
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0679645853
To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom.” In this, his largest collection of assorted prose, he brings generosity and insight to the works and lives of William Dean Howells, George Bernard Shaw, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and dozens more. Novels from outposts of postmodernism like Turkey, Albania, Israel, and Nigeria are reviewed, as are biographies of Cleopatra and Dorothy Parker. The more than a hundred considerations of books are flanked, on one side, by short stories, a playlet, and personal essays, and, on the other, by essays on his own oeuvre. Updike’s odd jobs would be any other writer’s chief work.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811207577
In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor--for themselves and for each other.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811202237
Here are the eleven remarkable stories of Tennessee Williams's first volume of short fiction, originally published in 1948 and reissued as a paperbook in response to an increasingly insistent public demand. It was this book which established Williams as a short story writer of the same stature and interest he had shown as a dramatist. Each story has qualities that make it memorable. In "One Arm" we live through his last hours and memories with a 'rough trade" ex-prizefighter who is awaiting execution for murder. "The Field of Blue Children" explores some of the strange ways of the human heart in love, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" is a luminous and nostalgic recollection of characters who figure in "The Glass Menagerie," while "Desire and the Black Masseur" is an excursion into the logic of the macabre. "The Yellow Bird," well known through the author's recorded reading of it, which tells of a minister's daughter who found a particularly violent but satisfactory way of expiating a load of inherited puritan guilt, may well become part of American mythology.
Author : Siegfried Lenz
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811209823
"The German Lesson marks a double triumph--a book of rare depth and brilliance, to begin with, presented in an English version that succeeds against improbable odds in conveying the full power of the original." --Ernst Pawel, New York Times Book Review
Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811210911
The twenty-none stories in Soulstorm were originally published in two separate volumes in 1974--A Via Crucis do Corpo (The Stations of the Body) and Onde Estivestes de Noite (Where You Were at Night)--and are now combined and sensitively translated into English by Alexis Levitan.
Author : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 1985-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811220850
Only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel. At his death in 1976, Raymond Queneau was one of France's most eminent men of letters––novelist, poet, essayist, editor, scientist, mathematician, and, more to the point, pataphysician. And only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel, now reissued as a New Directions Paperbook. To a pataphysician all things are equal, there is no improvement or progress in the human condition, and a "message" is an invention of the benighted reader, certainly not the author or his perplexing creations––the sweet, fennel-drinking Cidrolin and the rampaging Duke d'Auge. History is mostly what the duke rampages through––700 years of it at 175-year clips. He refuses to crusade, clobbers his king with the "in" toy of 1439––the cannon––dabbles in alchemy, and decides that those musty caves down at Altamira need a bit of sprucing up. Meanwhile, Cidrolin in the 1960s lolls on his barge moored along the Seine, sips essence of fennel, and ineffectually tries to catch the graffitist who nightly defiles his fence. But mostly he naps. Is it just a coincidence that the duke appears only when Cidrolin is dozing? And vice versa? In the tradition of Villon and Céline, Queneau attempted to bring the language of the French streets into common literary usage, and his mad word-plays, bad puns, bawdy jokes, and anachronistic wackiness have been kept amazingly and glitteringly intact by the incomparable translator Barbara Wright.