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Our Circus Presents--

Lucian Dan Teodorovici
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Author : Lucian Dan Teodorovici
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785565

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Our Circus Presents-- by Lucian Dan Teodorovici Pdf

"Every day, the Birdman performs the same ritual: he climbs out onto his window ledge to see if he can manage to kill himself and never does. The Birdman is a member of a loose-knit group of failed suicides, each pursuing absurd ways to end their lives: one saving up lost-dog reward money to buy enough good whiskey to drink himself to death, another hoping to contract a fatal disease by sleeping with as many women as possible. Just when it seems these routines will continue indefinitely, the Birdman meets a "professional" suicide: the dangerous and inscrutable "man with orange suspenders," who makes a living by trying to hang himself whenever he sees a potential rescuer approaching. This chance encounter, which leads at last to a real death, will force the Birdman to confront the roots of his desire to escape from life, and to see firsthand that dying is more than just a rehearsal." --Book Jacket.

Jerusalem

Gonçalo M. Tavares
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Author : Gonçalo M. Tavares
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785558

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Jerusalem by Gonçalo M. Tavares Pdf

"One morning late in May, between three and six A.M., a group of lonely men and women wait to be brought together, like the elements in an equation. Ernst Spengler is about to throw himself out his window. Mylia, terminally ill and in enormous pain, goes out to visit a church. Hinnerk Obst, who's always been told by the neighborhood children that he looks like a murderer, walks the streets with a loaded gun. As these characters are manipulated and brought together, a world of violence, fear, pain, and uncertainty is portrayed, where human nature itself, and the mechanisms determining our actions, our fictions, and the elements of our imagination, are laid bare. Jerusalem is a terrifying and grimly humorous summation of the possibilities and limits of the human condition at the beginning of the 21st century." --Book Jacket.

Siamese

Stig Sæterbakken
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Author : Stig Sæterbakken
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564783257

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Siamese by Stig Sæterbakken Pdf

Edwin Mortens is almost blind, but has good hearing; his wife Erna is hard of hearing, but has excellent eyes. Paralyzed from the waist down, Edwin sits locked in his bathroom all day, every day, trying to liberate his mind from his body. The experiment is going relatively well: nearly all his bodily functions have ceased, his limbs are in a state of decay, and his digestive system is in the process of breaking down. "This body," he says, "is a sewer." To pass the time, Edwin dedicates his days to chewing gum and screaming at his wife, on whom he is, nonetheless, entirely dependent; while Erna's life, despite Edwin's constant abuse, revolves around her hideous husband. Edwin and Erna live in a state of perfect equilibrium--fueled by habit, cruelty, humiliation, and quite possibly love--until a young maintenance man is called to replace a lightbulb in Edwin's bathroom, and the "Siamese twins" find themselves embroiled in a new and vicious struggle for power.

The Birth of Death and Other Comedies

Tom Whalen
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Author : Tom Whalen
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781564786401

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The Birth of Death and Other Comedies by Tom Whalen Pdf

Russell H. Greenan's "It Happened in Boston?" is one of the most radical narratives to appear in the late 1960s ("this is a book that encompasses everything" as David L. Ulin noted in "Bookforum"). Yet due in large part to the difficulty of classifying Greenan's fiction, many readers are unaware of his other novels. In "The Birth of Death and Other Comedies: The Novels of Russell H. Greenan," Tom Whalen, drawing widely from the American literary tradition, locates Greenan's lineage in the work of Hawthorne and Poe "where allegory and dream mingle with and illuminate realism," as well as in the fiction of Twain, West, Hammett, Cain, and Thompson. Examining Greenan's characteristic themes and strategies, Whalen provides perceptive readings of the dark comedies of this criminally neglected American master, and in a coda reflects on Greenan's career and the reception of his work.

Barley Patch

Gerald Murnane
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Author : Gerald Murnane
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564786760

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Barley Patch by Gerald Murnane Pdf

Discover the Australian novelist ranked by Ladbrokes as a top-five contender for the 2010 Nobel Prize. Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fiction—or so he thinks—forever. Using the form of an oblique self-interrogation, it begins with the Beckettian question “Must I write?” and proceeds to expand from this small, personal query to fill in the details of a landscape entirely unique in world letters, a chronicle of the images from life and fiction that have endured and mingled in the author’s mind, as well as the details (and details within details) that they contain. As interested, if not more so, in the characters from his books—finished or unfinished—as with the members of his family or his daily life, the narrator lays bare the act of writing and imagining, finally giving us a glimpse of the mythical place where the characters of fiction dwell before they come into existence in books. In the spirit of Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, Barley Patch is like no other fiction being written today.

Bowstring

Viktor Shklovsky
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Author : Viktor Shklovsky
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781564784254

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Bowstring by Viktor Shklovsky Pdf

Dalkey Archive Press’s favorite writer of them all. “Myths do not flow through the pipes of history,” writes Viktor Shklovsky, “they change and splinter, they contrast and refute one another. The similar turns out to be dissimilar.” Published in Moscow in 1970 and appearing in English translation for the first time, Bowstring is a seminal work, in which Shklovsky redefines estrangement (ostranenie) as a device of the literary comparatist—the “person out of place,” who has turned up in a period where he does not belong and who must search for meaning with a strained sensibility. As Shklovsky experiments with different genres, employing a technique of textual montage, he mixes autobiography, biography, memoir, history, and literary criticism in a book that boldly refutes mechanical repetition, mediocrity, and cultural parochialism in the name of art that dares to be different and innovative. Bowstring is a brilliant and provocative book that spares no one in its unapologetic project to free art from conventionality.

The Painted Circus

Wallace Edwards
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Author : Wallace Edwards
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781553377207

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The Painted Circus by Wallace Edwards Pdf

A collection of 22 astonishing stunts with visual puzzles that is entertainment for the whole family.

La Belle Roumaine

Dumitru Tsepeneag
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Author : Dumitru Tsepeneag
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628972665

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La Belle Roumaine by Dumitru Tsepeneag Pdf

La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of Europe, the novel follows Ana as she seduces café owners, philosophers, and wandering emigrants alike, each receiving a different version of her life story. To some, she’s a former nurse, to others, a former spy. To some she’s French and to others, Romanian. As each new layer of fabrication is added, the mystery of Ana and of what she’s running from grow apace.

Wasabi for Breakfast

Foumiko Kometani
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Author : Foumiko Kometani
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564789662

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Wasabi for Breakfast by Foumiko Kometani Pdf

These touching novellas detail the difficulties of a Japanese woman to both adapt to her new life in the United States without abandoning ties to her family and community back home. This book collects two novellas by the noted Japanese painter: “Family Business” and “1,001 Pillars of Flame.” In the first, Megumi—like the author, a long-time resident of the United States—pays a visit to her now eighty-seven-year-old mother in Japan. After so many years living abroad, Megumi simply can't understand contemporary Japan, and when her nephew runs away from home, and her elderly mother gives chase, Megumi finds herself having to relearn Japanese survival skills in an effort to bring them home safely. In “1,001 Pillars of Fire,” another Japanese-American woman, Yu, has been living in California for decades—which makes it all the more painful that she’s just as subject to discrimination now as ever. When, in the wake of the Rodney King trial, LA’s African-American population begins to riot, Yu learns just how much damage exclusion can do—finding it even within her own family.

Farewell to Prague

Desmond Hogan
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Author : Desmond Hogan
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564789792

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Farewell to Prague by Desmond Hogan Pdf

Following a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer "Desmond" wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a patchwork of small stories, conversations, love affairs, memories, regrets, and confrontations: "the labyrinth of stories of people whose lives you touch . . . so that your mind becomes like a polychromatic Irish pub." Whether a series of tragic postcards, a cubist novel, or a memoir shorn of its connective tissue, A Farewell to Prague stands as Desmond Hogan's greatest achievement: a catalog of the moments that justify a life "or shine a light on its emptiness."

Nietzsche on His Balcony

Carlos Fuentes
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Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628972023

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Nietzsche on His Balcony by Carlos Fuentes Pdf

On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below them. He reveals himself as the 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, permitted to revisit earth once a year for 24 hours based on his theory of eternal return. With tenderness and gallows humor, the novelist and the philosopher unflinchingly tell the story of the beginning of the revolution, its triumph, fanaticism, terror, and retrenchment: a story of love, friendship, family, commitment, passion, corruption, betrayal, violence, and hope.

An Egyptian Novel

Orly Castel-Bloom
An Egyptian Novel Book PDF

Author : Orly Castel-Bloom
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628972603

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An Egyptian Novel by Orly Castel-Bloom Pdf

The protagonist has Egyptian roots going back many generations: on her father’s side, to the expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492, when seven brothers of the Kastil family (from Castilla) landed on the Gaza coast after many trials and tribulations. Her mother’s side goes back even further, to the only family that Jewish history has ignored: the ones who said “No” to Moses and stayed in Egypt. After migrating to Israel in the 1950s and settling on a kibbutz—from which they were soon expelled for Stalinism—this storied clan moved to Tel Aviv. In this unconventional family saga, Orly Castel-Bloom blends fact with fiction, history with legend, reimagining the lives of her forebears in unforgettable prose.

Gestures

Igncacy Karpowicz
Gestures Book PDF

Author : Igncacy Karpowicz
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628972085

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Gestures by Igncacy Karpowicz Pdf

A forty-year-old man, burying himself in work and avoiding close emotional bonds with people, pays a visit to his mother in the country and is forced to extend it upon discovering her illness. While there, he reevaluates past familial and romantic relationships and finally attempts to build new ones. Gestures is "a psychologically precise and moving autopsy of a 'man in the wake of ordeals.'"

The Inner Immigrant

Mihkel Mutt
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Author : Mihkel Mutt
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628972443

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The Inner Immigrant by Mihkel Mutt Pdf

These essayistic short stories, penned over a thirty-year period, follow Fabian, Mihkel Mutt’s strange and self-indulgent alter ego, and his adventures in newly independent Estonia. Mutt’s stories highlight the lingering absurdities of the previous Soviet regime, at the same time taking ironic aim at the triumphs and defeats, the virtues and vices of the Estonian intelligentsia.

Communicating Process Architectures 2002

World Occam and Transputer User Group. Technical Meeting
Communicating Process Architectures 2002 Book PDF

Author : World Occam and Transputer User Group. Technical Meeting
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1586032682

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Communicating Process Architectures 2002 by World Occam and Transputer User Group. Technical Meeting Pdf

The WoTUG series of conferences are a major forum for the presentation of state-of-the-art ideas on concurrency and communication. This book continues this trend, with these proceedings containing a number of papers that discuss a wide range of issues fundamental to the future of concurrency.