Often poetic, occasionally ironic, and frequently humorous, Maxims ? first published in 1665 ? can also be blunt and brutally candid: "Everyone blames his memory, no one his judgment." Bursting with p
Bernadin de Saint-Pierre was late in the ranks of the French Enlightenment philosophes, but his chronology gave him the enviable privilege of actually witnessing what that august body of theoreticians
Dismissed as a vulgar drug addict who wrote about sex and death, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) went largely unrecognized until the 20th century. This collection of the notorious poet's essays transce
This is the most complete chronological account of Samuel Beckett's life and work, with full details of how, when, and where each work by him came to be written, many details of which have only recent
Urville, the capital of a large island province, has a population of nearly 12 million, making it the one of the most significant cities in Europe. It is also entirely imaginary.Gilles Trehin, an aut
Moynagh (government and politics, Wagner College) presents six essays that engage with the political thought of French feminist, existentialist thinker Simone de Beauvoir. The essays are thematically
H. C. for Life, That Is to Say . . . is Derrida's literary critical recollection of his lifelong friendship with Hélène Cixous. The main figure that informs Derrida's reading here is that of "taking
Derrida's approach to life was not at all pessimistic, he thought. Quite simply, it ended in death and that was all there was to it. He was just being realistic and logical. To his lifelong friend Hel
In Corinne, or Italy, as in On Literature, Germaine de Stael not only draws from the tradition of Northern European stereotypes of Italy and the Italians, but transmits their influence to nineteenth-c
Edited by Paul Auster, this four–volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes ha
Edited by Paul Auster, this four–volume hardcover set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, these books are spe
Edited by Paul Auster, this four–volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes ha
From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four
Published to coincide with the 1969 Nobel Prize winner's one hundredth birthday, a portrait by one of his closest friends is based on their more than four-decade relationship and offers insights into
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), perhaps best known as a dramatic theorist, is an important but extremely difficult writer. This book studies the development of his thinking, from the early texts of the 19
With its tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs, and tireless battles against his critics, priests and king, Roger Pearson’s Voltaire Almighty brings the father of En
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigm
