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This remarkable novel continues the saga of life among the common people in El Salvador begun with One Day of Life. A Place Called Milagro de la Paz tells the story of the courage and strength of two women, a single mother and her daughter, who have to overcome the trauma of the murder of the mother's older daughter and survive in an atmosphere of bitter poverty and repression. The book is filled, however, with magical, lyric moments of love a...

Pataphysics, the pseudoscience imagined by Alfred Jarry, has so far, because of its academic frivolity and hermetic perversity, attracted very little scholarly or critical inquiry, and yet it has inspired a century of experimentation. Tracing the place of 'pataphysics in the tangled history of the relationship between science and poetry, Christian Bok demonstrates that 'pataphysics is fundamental to the nature of the postmodern. Bok considers ...

Describing Adonis as a "poet of the beyond, of restlessness and questioning, a seeker after the eternal moment of freshness and the time of possibilities", the critic Kamal Abu Deeb goes on to say, "Both as a theorist and a poet, Adonis is the writer with the greatest influence in Arabic poetry today. . . . A rebel and force of destruction, but also a force of positive rejection and with a tormenting love for his culture and his country, he is...

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Nine stories are told with futuristic rhythms and despair, inverting the conventions of religion, politics, and culture, and highlighting the anarchic conditions of Europe in the 1920's.

The Old Man veers between a contemporary effort to buy a dacha and the memories of an incident during the Civil War. A questionable action in the past haunts the present and throws into relief the materialism that has come to replace revolutionary idealism, by suggesting that this idealism may have been tainted in the first place, Trifonov implicitly blames the past for the ills of the present. While the setting and situation are very much "So...

Centralia Dead March is a documentary novel based on the struggle of a radical union to establish better working conditions and solidarity among lumbermen, miners, railroad and migrant workers during the early part of this century. Wesley Everest, Ray Becker, Bert and O.C. Bland, Loren Roberts and Eugene Barnett lived and worked around Centralia, Washington and were active in the Wobblies, the International Workers of the World. On November 11...

First published in 1915, Old Calabria is one of the most comprehensive and exciting accounts of adventure travel in this century. Captivated by the cheerfully pagan quality of the mezzogiorno, as he understood it, Douglas plunged into Calabria, the southernmost and most backward part of Italy (a province that was still largely devoid of any form of modern amenity). He endured extremes of climate, scaled mountains, rode in rickety carriages dri...

On June 5, 1944, the eve of D day, Isaac Levendel's mother left the farm in southern France, where she and her son had gone to escape the Nazis, to make a brief trip home to pick up the last of their belongings. She never returned. For more than forty years Levendel was tormented by her disappearance. Finally, in 1990, he began to look for answers. He found shocking evidence of widespread French collaboration and government collusion with the ...

Josef Erdman arrives in Maribor, Slovenia, on the eve of World War II. Though claiming to be a salesman, it soon becomes apparent that Josef has no purpose in the town, and that a newcomer can expect nothing but distrust from the townspeople. Maribor is full of tensions that are played out in pub brawls and in the rivalry between the Slovenes and Germans at the top of the social hierarchy. Trying to fit in, Josef soon falls in with a group of ...

Bora Cosic's My Family's Role in the World Revolution enjoyed a successful run as a play, but the film version was closed immediately and ultimately caused Cosic's publications to be banned for over four years. This volume also includes several Cosic short stories, and recent essays on the war in the former Yugoslavia.

Like traditional fairy tales, Capek's fantastic parables contain marvels and supernatural beings, fairies, elves, and talking animals, their plots stem from folk traditions where innocence triumphs. At the same time, Capek infuses these tales with dazzling wordplay, an abundant sense of the absurd, and surprising futuristic twists. Fact and imagination, satire and fantasy are blended so skillfully that the line between logic and plausible nons...

Ivan Olbracht's reputation as one of Czechoslovakia's most important interwar authors stems largely from his works dealing with Ruthenia, a region south of the Carpathian Mountains that after World War I became part of the newly formed nation of Czechoslovakia. His novels and stories deal with the interaction between the two major ethnic groups occupying the region at that time: the Ruthenians, who were largely peasants, and the Jews, who were...

Rejected for publication in Poland because its portrayal of the Nazis was "too sympathetic", Music of Another World presents us with a disturbing description of a phenomenon about which little has been written: the presence of music among the crematoria of Auschwitz.Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, who became kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, recounts the inconceivable spectacle of SS guards growin...

Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank among the most sophisticated reflections on art in twentieth-century philosophy. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy.

At the end of June 1941, Latvia fell into the hands of the Germans. Within months, the command was given to "evacuate" the Jews of the Riga ghetto. Armed gangs of Latvians and Germans forced their way into Jewish homes, startling the occupants out of their sleep and shooting them in their beds. On streets, in shops, and in factories, the Jews of Riga were hunted down. Men and women, children, and the elderly were driven into groves on the outs...

Francesco Koslovic -- even his name straddles two cultures. And in the spring of 1955, in the village of Materada on the Istrian Peninsula, the two worlds of Francesco Koslovic are coming apart. A novel both lyrical and elegiac, Materada unfolds against the backdrop of the Istrian "exodus" -- the departure from their homeland of hundreds of thousands who had once thrived in the peninsula's rich ethnic mixture of Italian and Slav, Croat and Slo...

This book endures and inspires because it embodies mankind's deepest yearnings: the power of brotherhood and community, the romance of a love worth dying for, and the moral rightness of valor, honor, and chivalry.

Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole.” Thus does Maurice Merleau-Ponty describe speech in this collection of his important writings on the philosophy of expression, composed during the last decade of his life.

Northwestern University Press and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) are pleased to announce the establishment of a new series of critical companions to Russian literature. Under the direction of the AATSEEL Publications Committee, leading scholars will edit volumes intended to introduce classics of Russian literature to both teachers and students at the high school and undergraduate levels. Ea...