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Alexander Doty & Patricia Clare Ingham argue that the puzzle of Christensen’s...
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The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolaño and After - collection of...
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Kirmen Uribe - Using (fictional?) e-mails, letters, transcripts of recordings...
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Joan Sales - the first novel to tell the story of the Spanish Civil War from...
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic...
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books, Trans. by R. J. Hollingdale. NYRB Classics, 2000. [1765.-1799.]introductionGerman scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an...
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Fernão Mendes Pinto - This text came second only to Marco Polo's work in...
Fernão Mendes Pinto,The Travels of Mendes Pinto. Trans. by Rebecca D. Catz, University of Chicago press, 1989. [161.] read it at Google BooksThis text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portugese...
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Félix de Azúa - the diarist's piercing irony keeps his descent a sharply...
Félix de Azúa, Diary of a Humiliated Man. Trans by Julie Jones Brookline Books, 1996. [1987.]Mordantly funny, at times horrifying, always invigorating, the first novel of this Spanish writer to appear...
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Otar Chiladze - a novel by Georgia’s greatest 20th century novelist about the...
Otar Chiladze, Avelum.Trans. by Donald Rayfield. Garnett Press, 2013.novel by Georgia’s greatest 20th century novelist, about the simultaneous breakdown of the Soviet ‘Empire of Evil’ and the hero’s...
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Ottessa Moshfegh - Here is the story of one man’s pursuit of self-destruction...
Ottessa Moshfegh,McGlue. Fence Books, 2014.excerptWindow TreatmentsThe WeirdosDisgust Bettering MyselfMcGlue is in the hold, too drunk from the night before to be sure of name or situation or...
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Maylis de Kerangal - literary saga of a dozen men and women – engineers,...
Maylis de Kerangal, Birth of a Bridge. Trans. by Jessica Moore, Talonbooks, 2014.From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes this literary saga of a dozen men and women –...
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Paul Willems explores the frontiers of dream and reality, investigating the...
Paul Willems, The Drowned Land and La Vita Breve, Trans. by Donald Flanell Friedman and Suzanne Burgoyne, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 1994.This volume combines Paul Willems' 1990...
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Dorothy Iannone - This book is an explosion of colors and adventures—the...
Dorothy Iannone, You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends. Ed. by Lisa Pearson with an essay by Trinie Dalton. Siglio Press, 2014.Read the complete PDF Press Release. For over five...
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Konstantin Vaginov - His third novel placed emphasis of authorly autonomy and...
Konstantin Vaginov, The Works and Days of Svistonov, Trans. by Howard Shernoff. Creative Arts Book Company, 2000.www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/10933 Somewhere between Andrey Biely's symbolist St....
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Lloyd Jones - a brilliantly nuanced examination of the power of imagination,...
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Greg Dening - In this marvelous study of the actual mutiny on the Bounty,...
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Hermann Broch belongs in that tradition of great twentieth-century novelists...
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Christopher P. Wilson - a remarkable book, exceptionally well written. The...
Chris Wilson, Mischief, Andre Deutsch, 1992.christopher-wilson.net/9701.htmlHuman life is cosmic to observe and tragic to experience," declares Charles Xique Xique Duckworth, the narrator of Wilson's (...
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Grant Maierhofer - switches between a romance, a bizarre comedy, and...
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Stephen Boyer - Josh is the sort of boy who experiences nearly everything...
Stephen Boyer, Parasite, Publication Studio, 2014.excerpt 1excerpt 2Parasite, Stephen Boyer's debut novel is about a young 17 year old boy, Joshua Boyer, who runs away from his unaccepting Christian...
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Casey Hannan leads the reader down a dark, occasionally surreal road, where...
Casey Hannan, Mother Ghost. Tiny Hardcore Books, 2013.casey-hannan.comA gay man comes out of the closet every day of his life. His mother is the first to know. She says he'll be lonely, but he'll never...
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