SEAGULL BOOKS 2017

C O N T E N T S

2-79
JUST PUBLISHED

80-99
FORTHCOMING TITLES

100-115
SELECT BACKLIST
2 JUst PUblisHEd
For my generation he has always
been one of the great intellectual
heroes of the twentieth century, a man
whose insight and intellectual gifts
were at the service of nearly every
progressive cause of our time.
EDWARD SAID
ritical Essays (Situations I) gathers essays on litera-
C ture and philosophy from a highly formative period
of Jean-Paul Sartres lifethe years between 1938
and 1946, before he published the magnum opus that
would solidify his name as a philosopher, Being and Noth-
ingness. During this time, Sartre was emerging as one of
Frances most promising young novelists and playwrights.
Not content, however, he was consciously attempting to
Jean-Paul Sartre
CritiCal Essays
(situations i)
translatEd by CHRIS TURNER
revive the form of the essay via detailed examinations of
writers who were to become central to European cultural
life in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
Collected here are Sartres experiments in reimagining
the idea and structure of the essay. Among the distin-
guished writers he analyses are Francis Ponge, Georges
Bataille, Vladimir Nabokov, Maurice Blanchot and, of
course, Albert Camus, whose novel The Stranger Sartre
endeavours to explain in these pages.
Critical Essays also contains a famous attack on the
Catholic novelist Franois Mauriac, studies of the great
American literary iconoclasts William Faulkner and John
Dos Passos, and brief but insightful essays on aspects of
the philosophical writings of Edmund Husserl and Ren
Descartes.
JEAN-PAul SARtRE (190580) was a novelist, playwright, and
biographer, and he is widely considered one of the greatest
philosophers of the twentieth century.
CHRIS tuRNER is a writer and translator who lives in Birming-
ham, England.
3

` 650
The French List

Paper
978 0 8574 2 449 5

538 pp
5 x 8"

Published February 2017

4 JUst PUblisHEd
this updated collection of essays by
one of the best-known philosophers of
the past century will appeal to readers
familiar with sartre but also those new
to his writings. readers who are
discouraged by sartres more technical
works, e.g., Being and Nothingness,
will find this much more accessible.
LIBRARY JOURNAL
a fluent translation. . . . Portraits can
be read today as a self-contained
collection of biographical studies.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Jean-Paul Sartre
Portraits
(situations iV)
translatEd by CHRIS TURNER
ean-Paul Sartre counted among his friends and
J associates some of the most esteemed intellectuals,
writers and artists of the twentieth century. In
Portraits (Situations IV), Sartre collected his impressions
and accounts of many of his notable acquaintances, in
addition to some of his most important writings on art
and literature during the early 1950s.
Portraits includes Sartres preface to Nathalie Sarrautes
Portrait of a Man Unknown and his homages to Andr
Gide, Albert Camus and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Featured
as well are lengthy studies of Sartres close friend Paul
Nizan and of the young Andr Gorz that are no less
revealing, as well as Sartres Reply to Albert Camus,
which sealed the ideological and personal break between
the two writers on its publication in 1952. Alongside are
fascinating articles on tintoretto and a number of contem-
porary artists, including Giacometti and Masson. Portraits
concludes with two travelogue-style accounts of Sartres
time in Italy.
this volume presents these essays in their complete
form as originally intended by Sartre when he first pub-
lished Situations IV in France and is thus essential reading
for anyone interested in the artistic and intellectual history
of the time.
5

` 750
The French List

Paper
978 0 8574 2 448 8

690 pp
5 x 8"

Published February 2017

6 JUst PUblisHEd
one of the most brilliant and
versatile writers as well as one of
the most original thinkers of the
twentieth century. TIMES
Jean-Paul Sartre
tHE aFtErmatH oF War
(situations iii)
translatEd by CHRIS TURNER
he Aftermath of War brings together essays writ-
T ten in Sartres most creative period, just after the
Second World War, with writings on postwar
America, the social impact of war in Europe, contempo-
rary philosophy, race and avant-garde art.
Carefully structured into sections, the essays range
across Sartres reflections on collaboration, resistance
and liberation in postwar Europe, his thoughts and
observations after his extended trip to the uS in 1945,
an examination of the failings of philosophical material-
ism, his analysis of the new revolutionary poetry of
negritude, and his meditations on the visual arts, with
essays on the work of Giacometti and Calder, both of
whom Sartre knew well.
7

` 525
The French List

Paper
978 0 8574 2 447 1

366 pp
5 x 8"

Published February 2017

8 JUst PUblisHEd
Wieland Hoban's fine translation marks the
first time these two collections have been
published as adorno and tiedemann
intended. . . . His essay on Weber's Der
Freischutz sent me racing back to renew
acquaintance with this glorious opera, and
he convincingly expounds on how debussy's
Pelleas et Melisande owes much to the
orchestration of Parsifal. . . . there is much
musical treasure to be found in these pages.
ARLO MCKINNON | Opera News
lthough theodor W. Adorno is best known for his
A association with the Frankfurt School of Critical
theory, he began his career as a composer and
successful music critic. Night Music presents the first com-
plete English translations of two collections of texts
Moments musicaux, containing essays written between
1928 and 1962, and Theory of New Music, a group of
texts written between 1929 and 1955.
Theodor W. Adorno
nigHt mUsiC
Essays on music, 19281962
translatEd by WIELAND HOBAN
In Moments musicaux, Adorno echoes Schuberts
eponymous cycle, with its emphasis on aphorism, and
offers lyrical reflections on music of the past and his own
time. the essays include extended aesthetic analyses that
demonstrate Adornos aim to apply high philosophical
standards to the study of music. Theory of New Music, as
its title indicates, presents his thoughts and theories on
the composition, reception and analysis of the music that
was being written around him.
Adornos extensive philosophical writing ultimately pre-
vented him from pursuing the compositional career he
had once envisaged; yet his view of the modern music of
the time is not simply that of a theorist, but also clearly
that of a composer. Collected in their entirety, these
insightful texts show the breadth of Adornos musical
understanding and reveal an overlooked side to this sig-
nificant thinker.
tHEODOR W. ADORNO is widely regarded as one of twentieth
centurys foremost thinkers on aesthetics and philosophy as well
as one of its pre-eminent essayists.
WIElAND HOBAN has been, since 2000, writing regularly for
Muzik & sthetik and Fragmen, and the book series New Music
& Aesthetics in the 21st Century. For Seagull Books, he has trans-
lated Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celans Correspondence
(2010), Ralf Rothmanns Young Light (2010), Alexander Kluges
30 April 1945 (2015) and Sibylle lewitscharoffs Blumenberg
(2016).
9

` 595
The German List

Paper
978 0 8574 2 450 1

690 pp
5 x 8"

Published February 2017

10
a brief selection of bonnefoys poetry
from the final years of his life. . . . the
poems take the form of dialogues
between a man and a woman
perhaps adam and Eve in exile from
the garden. as always, they revel in
the beauty of the physical world.
NEW YORKER
ves Bonnefoy is one of the greatest living voices of
Y
contemporary French poetry. In this, his sixth vol-
ume published by Seagull Books, he explores in
profound new ways the mysteries of human conscious-
ness. Readers find snatches of conversationsoverheard,
dropped without any possible conclusioneach pregnant
with half-hidden, half-visible meaning. limpid, punctuated
with silences, the poems of Ursa Major are like stones
JUst PUblisHEd
Yves Bonnefoy
Ursa maJor
translatEd by BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC
illUstratEd by SUNANDINI BANERJEE
picked up, turned over and set back down on the edge
of life.
Countless voices traverse us; endless, almost, as
the meanders of dreams or the starry scintillations
of summer nights. Only listen, and a few words
rise from the murmur, referring to precise things,
making allusions one would like to understand,
offering opinions perhaps worth mulling over.
this deeply moving sequence of prose poems invites
readers to attend to the multitudinous voices that carry
on their conversations within us, to trust themjust as on
summer nights we would lie down in the grass of the
meadow, behind our houses, to go forth among the mil-
lions of stars with a feeling of falling.
YVES BONNEFOY was a poet, critic and professor emeritus of
comparative poetics at the Collge de France. In addition to
poetry and literary criticism, he published numerous works of art
history and translated into French several of Shakespeares plays.
BEVERlEY BIE BRAHIC is a poet and translator. A Canadian, she
lives in Paris and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has published
two collections of poetry and translations of French writers,
including Apollinaire, Francis Ponge and Hlne Cixous.
11

` 550
The French List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 374 0

72 pp, 15 colour plates

5.5 x 7.75"

Published January 2017

12
there is a folkloric feel to this writing. as if
life is a fairytale. the tone is theistic, and
theres always a narrative within the surreal.
yes, all this is bonnefoy. His prose pieces are
sharp and clear while there are
transgressions folding dreams within reality.
WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS
idely considered the foremost French poet of
W his generation, Yves Bonnefoy has wowed the
literary world for decades with his diffuse vol-
umes. First published in France in 2008, The Anchors
Long Chain is an indispensable addition to his oeuvre.
JUst PUblisHEd
Yves Bonnefoy
tHE anCHors long
CHain
translatEd by BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC
Enriching Bonnefoys earlier work, the volume also inno-
vates, including an unprecedented sequence of nineteen
sonnets. these sonnets combine the strictness of the form
with the freedom to vary line length and create evocative
fragments. Compressed, emotionally powerful and allu-
sive, the poems are also autobiographicalbut only in
glimpses. throughout, Bonnefoy conjures up lifes eternal
questions with each new poem.
longer, discursive pieces, including the title poems
meditation on a prehistoric stone circle and a legend
about a ship, are also part of this volume, as are a number
of poetic prose pieces in which Bonnefoy, like several of
his great French predecessors, excels. long-time admirers
will find much to praise here, while newer readers will
quickly find themselves under the spell of Bonnefoys
powerful, discursive poetry.
13

` 450
The French List

Cloth
978 08574 2 302 3

120 pp
5.5 x 7.75"

Published October 2015

14 A L S O AVA I L A B L E b y y V E s b o n n E F o y

tHE arrirE-Pays tHE PrEsEnt HoUr

translatEd by STEPHEN ROMER translatEd by BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC

` 750
The French List

` 450
The French List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 026 8
Cloth
236 pp, 20 colour 978 0 8574 2 163 0
images
112 pp
5.5 x 7.75" 5.5 x 7.75"

he idea of the crossroads haunts Bonnefoys work, as
T he is troubled by the idea that the path not taken may
lead to the Arrire-pays, a place of greater plenitude and
of more authentic beingan elsewhere in the absolute.
Seized by the fear that presence exists always some-
where else, Bonnefoy sets out on a quest to find traces of
it not only in objects of knowledge and experience but
also, crucially, in the undivided intensity of his experiences
as a child.
A spiritual testament to art, philosophy and poetry,
now enriched by a new preface and three recent essays.
personal narrative surfaces in splinters and shards,
A the poems echoing each other, returning to and
elaborating upon key images, thoughts, feelings and peo-
ple. Intriguing and enigmatic, this mixture of sonnet se-
quences and prose poemsor dream textsmove from
Bonnefoys meditations on friendship and friends like
Jorge luis Borges to a long, discursive work in free verse
that is a self-reflection on his thought and process.
the ultimate condensation of Bonnefoys ninety years
of life and writing and a valuable addition to the canon of
his writings available in English.
15
tHE digamma
translatEd by HOYT ROGERS
` 325
The French List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 183 8
60 pp
5.5 x 7.75"
key passage of the title piece of the book depicts the
A figures of Nicolas Poussins The Shepherds of Arcadia
which Bonnefoy identifies as crucial to the artists evolu-
tion. the sustained reference to Poussins iconography
serves to ground the text in the lost civilizations of antiq-
uity. Subtly, it brings out the underlying theme of the
entire collectionin the ambivalent world we inhabit,
being and non-being is fundamentally one. As a leading
translator of Shakespeare in France, Bonnefoys fascination
with the master playwright is displayed in God in Hamlet
and For a Staging of Othello, two poems in prose which
belong to an ongoing series of meditations on the plays.
the collection also includes haunting reflections on chil-
dren, nature, origins of art and vanished cultures.
YVES BONNEFOY
rUE traVErsirE
translatEd by BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC
` 495
The French List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 227 9
88 pp
5.5 x 7.75"
ue Traversire, written in 1977, is one of Bonnefoys
R most harmonious prose works. Each of the fifteen
discrete or linked texts, whose length ranges from brief
notations to long, intense, self-questioning pages, is a
work of art in its own rightbrief and richly suggestive as
haiku, or long and intricately wrought in syntax and
thought. Each text is as rewarding in its sounds and
rhythms, and its lightning flashes of insight, as any sonnet.
I can write all I like; I am also the person who looks at the
map of the city of his childhood, and doesnt understand,
says the text that gives the book its title as it revisits child-
hood cityscapes in an exploration of the tricks memory
plays on us.
16
sobh is an author of remarkable skill and
range. she elegantly strings together a
love for writing and incisive observations
of societys restrictions on women. the
stories told inside this novel traverse an
equally diverse range of topics from love,
female friendship, loss, and survival.
sobhs language effortlessly delivers and
engages the reader in the varied
emotions carried by these topics as it
billows and patters and spirals just like
the country she describes.
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
JUst PUblisHEd
Alawiya Sobh
maryam
Keeper of stories
translatEd by NIRVANA TANOUKHI
his acclaimed novel is set during the lebanese
T Civil War and offers a rare depiction of womens
experiences amid this sprawling, region-defining
conflict. In Alawiya Sobhs hands, the details of everyday
life mix with female voices from across classes, sects and
generations to create an indelible picture of a climate
where violence and war are the overt outbreak of a sim-
mering tension that underlies the life in the region. Here,
stories struggle to survive the erasure of war and rescue
the sweetness of living, trying to connect the tellers and
their audience while transforming pain and love into
abiding, sustaining art. Rendered sensitively into English
through a close collaboration between author and trans-
lator, Maryam offers an unforgettable picture of conflict
and its costs.
AlAWIYA SOBH is a writer, journalist and editor of the womens
magazine Al-Hasnaa.
NIRVANA tANOuKHI is a translator and critic based in Madison,
Wisconsin.
17

` 750
The Arab List

Cloth
978 08574 2 325 2

400 pp
5 x 8"

Published June 2016

18
Suspended Passion was initially
published only in italian and
eventually forgotten about until a
copy was tracked down and published
in French in 2013. turner has now
produced an English translation for
duras many anglophone fans and
students. the interviews convey one
of the key lessons of duras creative
output, both in print and film: less is
more.POPMATTERS
controversial figure of the postwar French literary
A and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted
a powerful hold on readers around the world.
this volume of interviewshailed on its French publi-
cation as Duras secret confessionoffers readers a
rich vein of new insight into her work, opinions, life and
relationships.
JUst PUblisHEd
Marguerite Duras
sUsPEndEd Passion
interviews
translatEd by CHRIS TURNER
the interviews that make up the book were conducted
in 1987, when Italian journalist leopoldina Pallotta della
torre met the seventy-three-year-old Duras at her Paris flat
and convinced her to sit for a series of conversations. the
resulting book was published in Italian in 1989, but it
somehow failed to attract a French publisher and was
quickly forgotten. Nearly a quarter of a century later, how-
ever, the book was rediscovered and translated into
French and now become a sensation. In its revealing
pages, Duras speaks with extraordinary freedom about
her life as a writer, her relationship to cinema, her friend-
ship with Mitterand , her love of Chekhov and football,
and, perhaps most significantly, her childhood in pre-war
Vietnam, the experiences that propelled her most famous
novel, The Lover.
A true literary event, finally available in English, Sus-
pended Passion is a remarkable document of an extraor-
dinary literary life.
MARGuERItE DuRAS (191496) was a French writer and film-
maker and the author of many books, including The Lover.
CHRIS tuRNER is a writer and translator who lives in Birming-
ham, England.
19

` 595
The French List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 329 0

136 pp
5.5 x 7.75"

Published August 2016

20
Forensic and
devastating.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Fortinis poetic production, literary
criticism, political writings,
translations, and journalism have
assured him a position of the first rank
among intellectuals of the italian
postwar period. ITALICA
JUst PUblisHEd
Franco Fortini
a tEst oF PoWErs
Writings on Criticism and
literary institutions
translatEd by ALBERTO TOSCANO
riginally published in Italian in 1965, A Test of
O Powers was immediately seen as one of the central
texts of Italian intellectual life. By the time of the
1968 student revolts, it was clear that Franco Fortini
had anticipated many of the themes and concerns of
the New left, which is no surprise, given that Fortini
had spent more than two decades immersed in fierce
ideological debates over anti-Fascism, organizing, the
alliance between progressivism and literature and other
topics that found their way into A Test of Powers. In addi-
tion to politically focused essays, the book features essays
on a range of writers who influenced Fortini, including
Kafka, Pasternak, Eric Auerbach, Proust and Brecht.
FRANCO FORtINI (191794) was a poet, essayist, literary critic,
Marxist intellectual, and translator of Brecht, Goethe and Kafka,
among others.
AlBERtO tOSCANO teaches in the Department of Sociology
at Goldsmiths, university of london. He is the author of Fanati-
cism and The Theatre of Production and the translator of several
books by Alain Badiou.
21

` 750
The Italian List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 335 1

304 pp
6 x 9"

Published December 2016

22
a stunning, wonderfully
presumptuous book.
ROLLING STONE
brandts admirable debut is great
reading for any occasion: complex
and hearty while remaining swiftly
readable thanks to a great story and
a pitch-perfect translation.
SPECTRUM CULTURE
n its publication in German, Against the World was
O hailed as an immediate classic. One of the most
spectacular debuts of recent decades, said Kultur-
spiegel while Der Spiegel went farther: Against the World
is the book of books. Now English-language readers
will get their first chance to see what German readers have
JUst PUblisHEd
Jan Brandt
against tHE
World
translatEd by KATY DERBYSHIRE
already learnt: this is a big, ambitious, over-the-top
masterpiece.
Set in the East Friesia region of Germany in the mid-
1970s, this is the story of Daniel Kuper, the nominal heir
to a drugstore dynasty, and his struggle to free himself
from the petty suspicions and violence of small-town life.
A delicate, secretive boy with too much imagination and
too few opportunities, he becomes the target of outrage
and fear when strange phenomena convulse the town:
snowfall in summer, inexplicable corn circles, a boy dead
under the wheels of a train, swastikas crudely daubed on
walls. Fingers point, and they single out Kuper. the more
he tries to prove his innocence, the more fierce the accu-
sations, until his only option is open war against the village
and its inhabitants.
An unforgettable debut, Against the World is an epic
account of growing up an outsider, and the pain, violence
and betrayal that accompany exclusion.
JAN BRANDt is a German journalist and writer.
KAtY DERBYSHIRE is a london-born translator who has lived in
Berlin for many years.
23

` 950
The German List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 337 5

968 pp
6 x 9"

Published October 2016

24 JUst PUblisHEd

Pierre Chappuis
liKE bits oF Wind
selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 19742014
translatEd by JOHN TAYLOR

ne of the central figures from a remarkable gener- sinuous lines and interpolated parentheticals. together,

O ation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis

has thus far only been represented in English trans-
lation in fragments: a few poems here and there in mag-
the different forms are invigorating and exciting, the per-
fect introduction for English-language readers.

azines, online reviews and anthologies. Like Bits of Wind

rights that wrong, offering a generous selection of Chap- PIERRE CHAPPuIS was born in tavennes, Switzerland in 1930
puiss poetry and prose from the past forty years, drawn and has published numerous volumes of poetry and prose.
from several of his books. In these pages, Chappuis delves
JOHN tAYlOR is a literary critic and the translator of many
into long-standing questions of the essence of life, our
books. He is also the author of seven books of stories, short
relationship to landscape, the role of the perceiving self, prose and poetry, the latest of which is If Night Is Falling.
and much more. His skeletal, haiku-like verse starkly con-
trasts with his more overtly poetic prose, which revels in
25

` 750
The Swiss List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 338 2

336 pp
5 x 8.5"

Published July 2016

26 JUst PUblisHEd

Roland Barthes
signs and imagEs:
Writings on art, CinEma
and PHotograPHy
Essays and interviews, Volume 4
translatEd by CHRIS TURNER

igns and Images gathers pieces related to Barthess

S central concerns: semiotics, visual culture, art, cin-

ema and photography. It is a rare compilation of his
articles on film criticism and reviews on art exhibitions.
the volume features essays on Marthe Arnould, lucien
Clergue, Daniel Boudinet, Richard Avedon, Bernard Fau-
con and many more.
ROlAND BARtHES (191580) was a professor at the Collge de
taken together, the five volumes in this series are a gift
France until his death. His books include Camera Lucida: Reflec-
to Barthess many fans, helping to round out our under-
tions on Photography; Image, Music, Text; and A Lovers Dis-
standing of this restless, protean thinker and his legacy.
course: Fragments.
CHRIS tuRNER is a writer and translator who lives in Birming-
ham, England.
27

` 495
The French List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 241 5

168 pp
5 x 8"

Published August 2016

28 A L S O AVA I L A B L E b y r o l a n d b a r t H E s

a VEry FinE giFt tHE sCandal oF marxism

and otHEr Writings on and otHEr Writings on
tHEory PolitiCs
Essays and interviews, Volume 1 Essays and interviews, Volume 2
translatEd by CHRIS TURNER translatEd by CHRIS TURNER

` 495 ` 495
The French List The French List

Cloth Cloth
978 0 8574 2 226 2 978 0 8574 2 239 2

196 pp 138 pp
5.5 x 7.75" 5.5 x 7.75"

rom his early musings on grammar and his pioneering
F thoughts on the sociology of literature, through the
high period of structuralism to the beginnings of a post-
structuralist turn in his reflections on Derrida and the cre-
ative contribution of the reader, this first volume of the
Essays and Interviews series suggest a progression that is
both straight line and spiral.
he pieces in this volume were mostly written in the
T 1950s, a period of serious turbulence in French
national life, and range from the theoretical to the cultural
to more pressing political matters of the time, such as de
Gaulles accession to power and Frances Algerian War.
they also include Barthess views on China, written after
his travels there in 1970.
29

masCUlinE, FEmininE, simPly a PartiCUlar

nEUtErand otHEr Writings ContEmPorary:
on litEratUrE intErViEWs, 197079
Essays and interviews, Volume 3 Essays and interviews, Volume 5
translatEd by CHRIS TURNER translatEd by CHRIS TURNER

` 495 ` 495
The French List The French List

Cloth Cloth
978 0 8574 2 242 2 978 0 8574 2 240 8

138 pp 138 pp
5.5 x 7.75" 5.5 x 7.75"

onsisting of Barthess writing on literature, covering his
C peers and influences, writers in French and other lan-
guages, contemporary and historical writers, and world
literature. this volume comprises Barthes critical articles
and interviews previously unavailable in English.
his fifth volume is entirely given over to four inter-
T views with Barthes conducted between 1970 and
1979. Varying considerably in style and content, they
include a filmed interview made for a French archive, an
appearance on a popular French radio programme, an
interview with one of East Asias leading cultural theorists
for a Japanese literary magazine and another for an aca-
demic journal in the uSA.
30
wiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of
S the most unusual and inventive francophone novel-
ists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the
processes of memory and consciousness, she has been
compared to Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. The Spirits
of the Earth is the first English translation of Colombs
work and its arrival will introduce new readers to an iconic
novel.
The Spirits of the Earth is at heart a family drama, set
at the Fraidaigue chteau, along the shores of Lake
Geneva, and in the Maison den Haut country mansion,
JUST pUbliShed
Catherine Colomb
The SpiriTS of
The earTh
TranSlaTed by JOHN TAYLOR
located in the hills above the lake. In these luxe locales,
readers encounter upper-class characters with faltering
incomes, parvenues, and even ghosts. Throughout,
Colomb builds a psychologically penetrating and bold
story in which the living and the dead intermingle and in
which time itself is a mystery.
CATHERINE COLOMB (18921965) was a Swiss writer.
JOHN TAYLOR is a literary critic and the translator of many
books. He is also the author of seven books of stories, short
prose and poetry, the latest of which is If Night Is Falling.
31

` 595
The Swiss List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 372 6

232 pp
5 x 8"

Published September 2016

32
noivilles hitchcock-style
psychological thriller will satisfy even
the most ardent suspense fan. . . .
Those looking for a gripping read will
not be disappointed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
by reviving de Clrambaults syndrome and
showing how it can lead to treacherous
consequences, noiville focuses on intricate
emotions to which novelists have paid less
attention. The final pages are worthy of a
thriller: the plot intensifies as amorous
attraction vies with amorous resentment.
both feelings coexist and collide, to the
point that murder and suicide become
possibilities. ARTS FUSE
JUST pUbliShed
Florence Noiville
a Cage in SearCh
of a bird
TranSlaTed by TERESA LAVENDER FAGAN
aura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris.
L Her life couldnt be better until her phone rings in
the middle of one night. It is C, an old school friend:
My phone rang. I knew right away it was you.
Thus begins the story of Cs unrelenting, obsessive,
incurable love/hatred of Laura. The obsession escalates,
yet is artfully hidden. It is Laura who is perceived as the
aggressor at work, Laura who appears unwell, Laura who
is losing it. Laura seeks the counsel of a psychiatrist who
diagnoses C with De Clrambault syndromeshe is con-
vinced that Laura is in love with her. And worse, the syn-
drome can only end in one of two ways: the death of the
patient, or that of the object of the obsession.
An inescapable, never-ending love, a love that can only
end badly.
FLORENCE NOIVILLE is an author and staff writer for Le Monde,
and editor of foreign fiction for Le Monde des Livres, the papers
literary supplement. She is the author of several books for chil-
dren, a biography of the Nobel Prize Laureate Isaac Bashevis
Singer, a partly autobiographical essay and three novels.
TERESA LAVENDER FAGAN is a freelance translator living in
Chicago; she has translated numerous books for Seagull Books
and other publishers.
33

` 495
The French List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 375 7
144 pp
5 x 8"

Published September 2016

34 JUST pUbliShed

Elsa Morante
The World
Saved by KidS
and other epics
TranSlaTed by CRISTINA VITI

a political manifesto written by Morantes true mastery of tone, rhythm and imagery as
she works elegy, parody, storytelling, song and more into
the grace of the story, with an act of linguistic magic through which Gramsci and
Rimbaud, Christ and Antigone, Mozart and Simone Weil,
humor, with joy. and a host of other figures join the sassy, vulnerable
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI neighbourhood kids in a renewal of the words timeless,
revolutionary power to explore and celebrate lifes insol-
uble paradox.
irst published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Morante gained international recognition and critical

F Kids was written in the aftermath of deep personal

change and in the context of what Elsa Morante
called the great youth movement exploding against the
acclaim for her novels History, Arturos Island and Aracoeli,
and The World Saved By Kids may be her best book and
the one that most closely represents her spirit.
funereal machinations of the organized contemporary
world.
Greeted by Antonio Porta as one of the most important ELSA MORANTE (191285) was an acclaimed novelist and writer.
books of its decade, The World Saved by Kids showcases CRISTINA VITI is a translator and poet.
35

` 550
The Italian List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 379 5

264 pp
1 halftone

5 x 8.5"
Published November 2016
36
a quietly gripping novel. . . . a book
to be read slowly, but suddenly its
over, because you were unable to put
it down. GROSKROSVERDEN
few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in
A Norways Utya Island, Otto and Sofie are
attempting to put the pieces of their life back
together without their beloved daughter, who was
murdered alongside countless other youths on one of
the worst days in Norways history. Seven Days in August
JUST pUbliShed
Brit Bilden
Seven dayS in aUgUST
TranSlaTed by BECKY CROOK
is the story of Otto and Sofies grief, painstakingly narrated
over just one weeka window into their attempts to
navigate a life together, face to face with their own help-
lessness and mortality.
The week begins with a tick bite on Sofies hand, which
continues to swell dangerously as the days pass. As her
pain intensifies, so too does the marital strife present in
a household stricken by grief. Told in award-winning
Norwegian writer Brit Bildens signature lyrical prose,
the story slowly unfurls the horrors of a national tragedy,
while peeling back the layers of sorrow that infect rela-
tionships over time.
BRIT BILDEN is an award-winning Norwegian novelist, poet
and translator. She lives in Oslo.
BECKY CROOK is a writer and translator living near Seattle.
37

` 595
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 382 5

224 pp
5 x 8"

Published December 2016

38
More than a few of Kluges many books
are essential, brilliant achievements.
none are without great interest.
SUSAN SONTAG
Uncompromisingly experimental and
resistant to the shaping power of
narrative. Kluge creates from the
fragments of history the chronicle of a
single day. . . . Kluges episodic tapestry
allows the reader to appreciate the
diverse responses to the imminent
collapse of the reich. . . . Kluges mosaic
of time shows the endpoint, but also the
blossoming of new beginnings.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
JUST pUbliShed
Alexander Kluge
30 april 1945
The day hitler Shot himself and germanys
integration with the West began
TranSlaTed by WIELAND HOBAN
0 April was a day filled with contradictions and be-
3 wildering events that would for ever define global
history. It was on this day that while the Red Army
occupied Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his under-
ground bunker, and, in San Francisco, the United Nations
was being founded.
Alexander Kluges latest book covers this single historic
day and unravels its passing hours across the different the-
aters of the Second World War. It delves into the events
happening around the world on one fateful day, including
the life of a small German town occupied by American
forces and the story of two SS officers stranded on the for-
saken Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean.
Kluge is a master storyteller, and as he unfolds these dis-
parate tales, one unavoidable question surfaces: What is
the appropriate reaction to the total upheaval of the status
quo?
A riveting collection of lives turned upside down by the
deadliest war in history.
ALEXANDER KLUGE is one of the major German fiction writers
of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As
a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German
Cinema movement.
WIELAND HOBAN is a translator and musician.
39

` 595
The German List

Paper
978 0 8574 2 399 3

160 pp
27 halftones

5.5 x 7.75"
Published October 2016
40
His works recall, in this sense, the
grand tradition of history painting,
with its notion about the elevated role
of art in society, except that they do
not presume moral certainty. What
makes Kiefers work so convincing . . .
is precisely its ambiguity and self-
doubt, its rejection of easy solutions,
historical amnesia, and
transcendence. NEW YORK TIMES
or a long time, it was not clear if I would become
F
a writer or an artist, says Anselm Kiefer, whose
paintings and sculptures have made him one of
the most significant and influential artists of our time.
Since he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German
Book Trade in 2008, his essays, speeches and lectures
have gradually received more attention, but until now his
JUST PUBLISHED
Anselm Kiefer
NOTEBOOKS
Volume 1, 199899
TRANSLATED BY TESS LEWIS
diary accounts have been almost completely unknown.
The power in Kiefers images, however, is rivalled by his
writings on nature and history, literature and antiquity,
mysticism and mythology.
In this volume, Kiefer returns constantly to his touch-
stones: sixteenth-century alchemist Robert Fludd, German
romantic poet Novalis, Martin Heidegger, Ingeborg Bach-
mann, Robert Musil and many other writers and thinkers.
The entries reveal the process by which his artworks are
informed by his readingand vice versaand track the
development of the works he created in the late 1990s.
Translated into English for the first time by Tess Lewis, the
diaries reveal Kiefers strong affinity for language and let
readers witness the process of thoughts, experiences and
adventures slowly transcending the limits of art, achieving
meaning in and beyond their medium.
ANSELM KIEFER is a painter, sculptor and installation artist living
and working in France. His works have been exhibited at MoMA,
the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Guggenheim and the
Louvre, among many others.
TESS LEWIS numerous translations from French and German
include works by Peter Handke, Jean-Luc Benoziglio and Pascal
Bruckner.
41

` 750
The German List

Paper
978 0 8574 2 400 6

364 pp
6 x 9"

Published October 2016

42
Enzensberger is the most
important postwar writer you
have never read.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
ans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as
H Germanys greatest living poet, was already well
known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of
which Tumult is an autobiographical record. Derived from
old papers, notes, jottings, photos and letters that the
poet stumbled upon years later in his attic, the volume is
not so much about the man but, rather, the many places
he visited and people whom he met on his travels through
the Soviet Union and Cuba during the 1960s.
JUST PUBLISHED
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
TUMULT
TRANSLATED BY MIKE MITCHELL
The book is made up of four longform pieces written
from 1963 to 1970, each episode concluding with a poem
and postscript written in 2014. A lively and deftly written
travelogue offering a glimpse into the history of leftist
thought and dedicated to those who disappeared,
Tumult is a document of that which remains one of
humanitys headiest times.
HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER is the editor of the book
series Die Andere Bibliothek and the founder of the monthly
TransAtlantik. His books include A History of Clouds and The
Reflections of Mr Zed.
A lecturer in German with a special interest in Austrian literature,
MIKE MITCHELL has worked as a literary translator since 1995.
43

` 550
The German List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 370 2

296 pp
5 x 8"

Published January 2017

44
hen a Chinese American intelligence officer
W at the US Embassy in Beijing intercepts
complex coded messages, the race is on to
decipher their meaning. When she finally succeeds in
decoding them, the messages seem to indicate a tar-
geted assault on the Japanese financial market. Puzzled,
the officer digs deeper and uncovers more intriguea
large, state-owned Chinese company, which has recently
discovered oil in Benin seems to be involved, and . . .
whats this about a kidnapping?
As the complex plot to bring down a major financial
institution unfolds at a rapid pace, American and Japan-
ese officials scramble to prevent a crisis with international
JUST PUBLISHED
Michael S. Koyama
THE SHANGHAI
INTRIGUE
implications. Set against the backdrop of the political
and financial practices of Japan, China and the US,
The Shanghai Intrigue brings with it murder, betrayal,
romance, even a natural disaster, as the plot races to a
most unpredictable outcome. The books breakneck
speed and thrilling twists and turns will leave readers
spellbound from the first page.
MICHAEL S. KOYAMA is the nom de plume of an economist with
degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and North-
western University. He recently retired as professor of economics
and Asian studies at a major university in the United States where
he held an endowed chair.
45

` 625
Cloth

978 0 8574 2 383 2

352 pp

6 x 9"
Published January 2017
46
A quest to discover the remaining
artifacts and present-day
incarnations of classical Chinese
culture takes Man Booker
International winner Krasznahorkai
on an illuminating, melancholy
journey through contemporary
China in this occasionally frustrating
yet often dazzling travel memoir.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
JUST PUBLISHED
Lszl Krasznahorkai
DESTRUCTION AND SORROW
BENEATH THE HEAVENS
Reportage
TRANSLATED BY OTTILIE MULZET
nown for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Lszl
K Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected Euro-
pean writers of his generation and the winner of
the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings
us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new
millennium. On the precipice of its emergence as a global
power, China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity
as its harsh Maoist strictures meet the chaotic flux of
globalism. What remains of the Middle Kingdoms ancient
cultural riches? And can a Westerner truly understand
Chinas past and presentor the murky waters where
the two meet?
Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens is both
a travel memoir and the chronicle of a distinct intellectual
shift as one of the most captivating contemporary writers
and thinkers begins to engage with the cultures of Asia
and the legacies of its interactions with Europe in a newly
globalized society.
LSZL KRASZNAHORKAI is a celebrated Hungarian novelist
and winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. His works
include Satantango and Seibo There Below.
OTTILIE MULZET is a literary critic and award-winning Hungarian
translator.
47

` 750
Cloth

978 0 8574 2 311 5

320 pp

6 x 9"
Published February 2016
48
camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends.
A Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to
China just his pen and a book of blank pages.
When the literary conference that took him there ended
and his fellow writers returned to India, Sealy stayed on
to travel the railroads of the north in search of a town rem-
iniscent of his Himalayan hometown and a man who might
resemble himself. Sign language, good will and plain luck
see him through, but in a northern mining town known for
its ancient Buddhist cave sculptures, Sealy finally comes
to the conclusion that his other was unreachable, his
hometown was one of a kind, and his only hope was a
pen, allowing him to record his memories, sketches and
adventures along the way.
JUST PUBLISHED
I. Allan Sealy
THE CHINA
SKETCHBOOK
Sealy is known for both his fiction and his travelogue
From Yukon to Yukatan: A Western Journey. This facsimile
edition of The China Sketchbook, however, adds a special
dimension to a travel narrativethe sketches and scrib-
bles give readers a more immediate and unrestrained
insight into the mind of a very fine writer and chart an
unusual and quirky travel diary.
I. ALLAN SEALY was born in Allahabad in North India in 1951
and educated in Lucknow and Delhi. He is the author of The Trot-
ter-Nama (1988), The Everest Hotel (which was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize in 1998), The Brainfever Bird (2003) and other nov-
els. He lives in Dehradun, where he is apprenticed to a bricklayer.
49

` 550
The India list

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 397 9

136 pp
5.5 x 7.75"

125 line drawings

Published January 2017
50 JUST PUBLISHED

Bhaskar Chakrabarti
THINGS THAT HAPPEN
and Other Poems
TRANSLATED BY ARUNAVA SINHA

haskar Chakrabartis poetry is synonymous with Sinha masterfully articulates that clarity of vision, retain-

B the romantic melancholia inherent in Calcutta.

His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most
significant to emerge in the 1960s and 70sperhaps
ing the unique idioms of the Bengali language.
Presenting verses and prose poems from all of
Chakrabartis life, Things That Happen and Other Poems
the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry. introduces the world to a brilliant and universal poetic
Spanning the rise of militant leftism, the spread of crip- voice of urban life.
pling poverty across India, the war in Bangladesh, the
influx of millions of refugees, the dark, dictatorial days
of Indira Gandhis reign, and the disillusionment of
communist rule in Bengal, Chakrabartis poems plumb
the depths of urban angst, expressing the spirit of sad-
ness and alienation in delicate metaphors wrapped in BHASKAR CHAKRABARTI (19452005) was a major Bengali poet
deceptively lucid language. who rose to prominence in the late 1960s and 70s.
In this first-ever comprehensive translation of ARUNAVA SINHA is an award-winning translator of more than 30
Chakrabartis work, award-winning translator Arunava books. He lives and works in New Delhi.
51

` 495
The India list

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 389 4

136 pp
5 x 8"

Published January 2017

52
To call the novella haunting would be
insufficient. The prose has a rare, fugitive
quality: a narration that seems to envy the
air, envy the breath of the other, and which
knows in contrast its own confinement. . . .
This novella should be commended both
for its role in the translation of Zaqtans
oeuvre into English and as the first title in a
new series for Arabic literature at Seagull
Books, edited by the scholar and translator
Hosam Aboul-Ela. . . . In Wilders English,
Zaqtans images are vital and distinctively
restless; the prose has a bold simplicity
that never settles into familiarity.
FULL STOP
JUST PUBlISHED
Ghassan Zaqtan
DEScrIBIng THE PAST
TrAnSlATED By SAMUEL WILDER
hen he was seven years old, Palestinian poet
W Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to
a Karameh refugee camp east of River Jor-
dan. That campa centre of Palestinian resistance follow-
ing the Six-Day War and the site of major devastation
when Israel razed the camp following the Battle of
Karameh in 1968is the setting for Zaqtans first prose
work to appear in English, Describing the Past.
This novella is a coming of age story, a tale of youth set
amid the death and chaos of war and violence. It is an
elegy for the loss of a childhood friend, and for childhood
itself, brought back to life here as if dreams and memories
have merged into a new state of being, an altered con-
sciousness and way of being in and remembering the
world.
GHASSAN ZAQTAN is a Palestinian poet, novelist, editor and
playwright.
SAMUEL WILDER is a translator, writer and researcher of com-
parative poetics.
53

` 450
The Arab List

Cloth
978 08574 2 349 8

80 pp
5 x 8"

Published July 2016

54
Edds book is an intelligent but not
reverential account of the way in which
Jean genet fascinated and
intimidated her.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
ominique Edd met novelist and playwright Jean
D
Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. His
presence, she writes, gave me the sensation of icy
fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated and
precise. . . . Genets movements mimicked the movement
of time, accumulating rather than passing.
This book is Edds account of that meeting and its rip-
ples through her years of engaging with Genets life and
JUST PUBlISHED
Dominique Edd
THE crImE of
JEAn gEnET
TrAnSlATED By ANDREW RUBENS AnD ROS SCHWARTZ
work. Rooted in personal reminiscences, it is nonetheless
much broader, offering a subtle analysis of Genets work
and teasing out largely unconsidered themes, like the
absence of the father, which becomes a metaphor for
Genets perpetual attack on the law. Tying Genet to
Dostoevsky through their shared fascination with crime,
Edd helps us more clearly understand Genets relation-
ship to France and Palestine, Judaism, Christianity, Islam,
the theatre, and even death. A powerful personal account
of the influence of one writer on another, The Crime of
Jean Genet is also one of the most penetrating explo-
rations yet of Genets work and achievement.
DOMINIQUE EDD is the author of several novels, including,
most recently, Kamal Jann and Kite, both published by Seagull
Books.
ANDREW RUBENS is a writer and translator whose work has
appeared in the Glasgow Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo and
PN Review.
ROS SCHWARTZ is a translator of fiction and nonfiction and the
chair of English PENs Writers in Translation programme.
55

` 495
The French List

Cloth
978 08574 2 339 9

136 pp
5.5 x 7.75"

Published May 2016

56
A short polemic in defense of the
European project. . . .This is a vivid,
oddball screed, the most eloquent
defense of an indefensible secular
Europe.
FIRST THINGS
n 2010, Robert Menasse journeyed to Brussels to
I begin work on a novel centred on the European
Union. His extended stay resulted in a completely dif-
ferent book, a work of nonfiction examining the history of
the European project and the evolving politics of nation-
states.
Spanning from the beginning of the transnational idea
with 1951s Montanunionthe European Coal and Steel
Communityto the current financial crisis, Menasse
focuses on the institutional structures and forces both
advancing and obstructing the European project. Given
the internal tensions among the European Commission,
JUST PUBlISHED
Robert Menasse
EnrAgED cITIZEnS,
EUroPEAn PEAcE AnD
DEmocrATIc DEfIcITS
or Why the Democracy given to Us must
Become one We fight for
TrAnSlATED By CRAIG DECKER
Parliament and Council, Menasse argues that current
problems that are frequently misunderstood as resulting
from the financial crisis are, in fact, political. Along the
way, he makes the bold claim that either the Europe of
nation-states will perishor the project of transcending
the nation-states will.
A provocative book, Enraged Citizens, European Peace
and Democratic Deficits deftly analyses the financial and
bureaucratic structures of the European Union and sheds
much-needed light on the state of the debt crisis.
Menasse brings his considerable literary expertise to the
unravelling of the real state of the union, along the way
weaving an intriguing tale of one continents efforts to
become a truly postnational democracy.
ROBERT MENASSE is an Austrian novelist and essayist. He is the
author of many books, including Wings of Stone and Reverse
Thrust.
CRAIG DECKER is a literary scholar, translator and professor
of German at Bates College. He is the translator of numerous
authors, including Thomas Bernhard, Peter Henisch and dn
von Horvth.
57

` 425
The German List

Cloth
978 08574 2 362 7

112 pp
5 x 8"

Published May 2016

58
A careful arrangement of seven sections,
each including between one and eleven
poems, allows Seilers poetry to speak for
its richness, assertions visible like reflected,
projected light through a prism. At times
dense, and at other times utterly accessible
and distilled, in field latin is as much about
playfulness in themes and core ideas as it
is about challenge and a personalized
representation of the self.
QUEEN MOBS TEA HOUSE
JUST PUBlISHED
Lutz Seiler
In fIElD lATIn
TrAnSlATED By ALEXANDER BOOTH
utz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and
L has lived most of his life outside Berlin. His poems,
not surprisingly, are works of the border, the in-
between, and the provincial, marked by whispers,
weather, times relentless passing, the dead and their
ghosts. It is a contemporary poetry of landscape, fully
aware of its literary and non-literary forebears, a walkers
view of the place Seiler lives, anchored by close, unhurried
attention to particulars. With his precise, memorable
languagerendered here in compelling EnglishSeiler
has pulled off a difficult feat: recontextualizing and radi-
cally personalizing the long tradition of German nature
writing for the twenty-first century.
LUTZ SEILER was born in 1963 in Gera, a town in eastern
Thuringia. He has published one novel and several volumes of
poetry, short stories and essays.
ALEXANDER BOOTH is a writer and translator who lives in
Berlin.
59

` 495
The German List

Cloth
978 08574 2 336 8

96 pp
5 x 8.5"

Published May 2016

60
Addressed primarily to aspiring writers,
litts essays collected in mutants both
derogate conventional prose and point the
way to alternatives. He offers the sort of
advice you wont get from editors and
literary agents at writing conferences,
neither groups of which can meet their
interlocking quarterly profit goals if you are
too independent of spirit and technique.
ON THE SEAWALL
JUST PUBlISHED
Toby Litt
mUTAnTS
Selected Essays
oby Litt is best known for his hip-lit fiction, which,
T in its sharing of characters and themes across
numerous stories and novels, has always taken an
unusual, hybrid form. In Mutants, he applies his restless
creativity to nonfiction. The book brings together twenty-
six essays on a range of diverse topics, including writers
and writing, and the technological world that informs and
underpins it. Each essay is marked by Litts distinct voice,
heedless of formal conventions and driven by a curiosity
and a determination to give even the shortest piece
enough conceptual heft to make it come alive. Taken as a
whole, these pieces unexpectedly cohere into a manifesto
of sorts, for a weirder, wilder, more willful fiction.
TOBY LITT is the author of three collections of short stories and
eight novels, including Life-Like, also published by Seagull
Books.
61

` 750
Cloth

978 08574 2 333 7

296 pp

6 x 9"
Published May 2016
62
one of the best novels of postwar
germany. . . . The narrative force and
the emotional punch are
sensational. DIE ZEIT
An event in literary history
and one helluva novel.
DER SPIEGEL
erner Brunig was once regarded as the
W great hope of East German literatureuntil
an extract from Rummelplatz was read before
the East German censorship authorities in 1965, and
fierce opposition summarily sealed its fate. The novels
JUST PUBlISHED
Werner Brunig
rUmmElPlATZ
TrAnSlATED By SAMUEL P. WILLCOCKS
sin? It painted an all-too-accurate picture of East German
society.
Rummelplatz, translated here by Samuel P. Willcocks,
focuses on a notorious East German uranium mine, run by
the Soviets and supplying the brotherlands nuclear pro-
gramme. Veterans, fortune seekers and outsiders with ten-
uous family ties like narrator Peter Loose flock to the
well-paying mine, but soon find their new lives bleak.
Safety provisions are almost nonexistent and tools are not
adequately supplied. The only outlets for workers are the
bars and fairgrounds where copious amounts of alcohol
are consumed and brawls quickly ensue. In Rummelplatz,
Brunig paints his characters as intrinsically human and
treats the death of each worker, no matter how poor, as
a great tragedy. Brunig occupies a cultlike status in
Germany, and this new translation of his masterpiece is an
excellent introduction for English-language readers.
WERNER BRUNIG (193476) was a German writer.
SAMUEL P. WILLCOCKS was a translator from Czech, German,
Romanian and Slovene into English.
63

` 950
The German List

Cloth
978 08574 2 305 4

544 pp
6 x 9"

Published May 2016

64
his collection of four stories by the writer George
T Steiner called one of the masters of European
fiction is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard
would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous.
The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goethe summons
Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus;
Montaigne: A Story (in 22 Installments) tells of a young
man sealing himself in a tower to read; Reunion, mean-
while, satirizes that very impulse to escape; and the final
story rounds out the collection by making Bernhard him-
self a victim, persecuted by his greatest enemyhis very
homeland of Austria. Underpinning all these variously
comic, tragic, and bitingly satirical excursions is Bernhards
abiding interest in, and deep knowledge of, the philoso-
phy of doubt.
JUST PUBlISHED
Thomas Bernhard
goETHE DIES
TrAnSlATED By JAMES REIDEL
Bernhards work can seem off-putting on first acquain-
tance, as he suffers no fools and offers no hand to assist
the unwary reader. But those who make the effort to
engage with Bernhard on his own uncompromising terms
will discover a writer with powerful comic gifts, penetrat-
ing insight into the failings and delusions of modern life,
and an unstinting desire to tell the whole, unvarnished,
unwelcome truth. Start here, readers; the rewards are
great.
THOMAS BERNHARD (193189) grew up in Salzburg and
Vienna, where he studied music. In 1957 he began a second
career as a playwright, poet and novelist. He went on to win
many of the most prestigious literary prizes of Europe (including
the Austrian State Prize, the Bremen and Brchner prizes, and Le
Prix Sguier) and was one of the most widely admired writers of
his generation.
JAMES REIDEL is a poet, translator, editor and biographer.
65

` 495
The German List

Cloth
978 08574 2 327 6

112 pp
5 x 8"

Published April 2016

66
[A] dark and enveloping book filled with
familiar expressionist energies and barraging
pastoral haunts. The text is a mere ninety-
two pages long . . . entirely exquisite and
damning, both still and swirling: a presence
of right and wrong, good and evil,
complacent and anxious from start to finish
. . . . [T]he book ultimately results in a
challenge worth taking for the breathtaking
moments of beauty and collapse that fill a
world of dreams and nightmares to be
valued equally.
QUEEN MOBS TEA HOUSE
JUST PUBlISHED
Georg Trakl
SEBASTIAn DrEAmIng
Book Two of our Trakl
TrAnSlATED By JAMES REIDEL
he second book in Seagulls ambitious series of
T Georg Trakls works, Sebastian Dreaming was the
second, and final, collection prepared for publica-
tion by Trakl himself. Published after his death, it was per-
haps even tied to it: forced into a military hospital by the
psychological trauma of his First World War experiences,
the Austrian poet requested that his publisher send him
proofs of the book. He waited a week, and then over-
dosed on cocaine.
A century later, the book appears for the first time in
English. While a number of its poems have been included
in other collections, translator James Reidel argues that
this particular book deserves to stand on its own and be
read as one piece, as Trakl intended. Only by doing this
can we begin to see Trakl in his proper time and place, as
an early modern poet whose words nonetheless continue
to exert a powerful hold on us while we make our way
through a new, uncharted century.
GEORG TRAKL (18871914) was an Austrian-German expres-
sionist poet.
JAMES REIDEL is a poet, translator, editor and biographer.
67

` 495
The German List

Cloth
978 08574 2 331 3

72 pp
5 x 8.5"

Published April 2016

68
ovelist Zakes Mda has made a name for himself as
N a key chronicler of the new, post-apartheid South
Africa, casting a satirical eye on its claims of polit-
ical unity, its rising black middle class, and other aspects
of its complicated, multiracial society.
In this novel, however, he turns his lens elsewhere: to a
college town in Ohio. Here he finds human relations and
the battle between the community and the individual no
less compelling, or ridiculous. In Athens, Ohio, old high
school friends Rachel Boucher and Jason de Klerk recon-
nect and rekindle a relationship that quickly becomes pas-
sionate. Initially, all seems well. Not only the couple, but
their friends and family, are happy at this unexpected con-
junction. But then Rachel meets someone else. Jasons
JusT PuBlIsheD
Zakes Mda
Rachels Blue
anger boils over into violenceviolence that turns the
community on its head, pitting friends and neighbors
against one another. And all this happens before Rachel
realizes shes pregnant.
A powerful, piercing satire of contemporary life, love,
and society, Rachels Blue is a wonderful example of the
social novel, surprising us with undeniable revelations
about everyday life.
ZAKES MDA is a South African novelist, poet and playwright who
is professor of English at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
69

` 750
The Africa List

Cloth
978 08574 2 332 0

296 pp
5 x 8"

Published March 2016

70
One of the few works that will
loom from the dust of this century
one day.
URS WIDMER
oung Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid vil-
Y
lage on the eastern edge of empirea surreal
postwar Austria. His uncle has died, and according
to the tradition required by his peoplethe Bieresch
Hans must assume his uncles place for one year. In a
series of interactions with the villages tragicomic charac-
JusT PuBlIsheD
Klaus Hoffer
amOng The BIeResch
TRanslaTeD By ISABEL FARGO COLE
ters and their contradictory stories and scriptures, the
reluctant Hans must face a world both familiar and alien.
Among the Bieresch is Hanss storyone of bizarre cus-
toms, tangled relationships and the struggle between two
mystical sects. The novel, translated by Isabel Fargo Cole,
is a German cult favourite and a masterwork of culture-
shock fiction that revels in exploring oppressive cultural
baggage and assimilation. Readers will encounter here an
amalgam drawing from Kafka, Borges and Beckett,
among others, combining to make Klaus Hoffers novel a
world utterly its own.
KLAUS HOFFER is a German writer and translator.
ISABEL FARGO COLE is a US-born, Berlin-based writer and
translator.
71

` 750
The German List

Cloth
978 08574 2 306 1

288 pp
6 x 9"

Published February 2016

72
riting in the long Bengali tradition exemplified
W by Rabindranath Tagore and Sukumar Ray,
Annada Shankar Ray created poetry of ingen-
ious rhyme and sound patterns, startling yet apt
metaphors and descriptions, and dazzlingly imaginative
subjects that range from satire to fantasy, or even combine
the two. At the same time, he bridges adult and childrens
poetry, opening up the latter to the messy, crazy, ironic
world that the former inhabits every day.
JusT PuBlIsheD
Annada Shankar Ray
ha ha hO hO
selected Rhymes of annada shankar Ray
TRanslaTeD By SUKANTA CHAUDHURI
This book offers English-language readers a glimpse of
this playful genius world, gathering some of his best-
known and most celebrated rhymes and presenting them
in a striking design that matches Rays innovative fancy
with wildly creative layouts.
ANNADA SHANKAR RAY (19042002) was one of the most
beloved and widely read Bengali poets.
SUKANTA CHAUDHURI is professor emeritus of English at Ja-
davpur University in Calcutta.
73

` 350
Paper
978 08574 2 360 3

120 pp
5 x 6.75"

Published February 2016

74
poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor and
A
director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer
and a major influence within and beyond the
French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his
thought and his appeal, 50 Drawings to Murder Magic is
rooted in the nine years Artaud spent in mental asylums,
struggling with schizophrenia and the demonic, persecu-
tory visions it unleashed. Set down in a dozen exercise
books written between 1946 and 1948, these pieces trace
Artauds struggle to escape a personal hell that extends
far beyond the walls of asylums and the dark magicians
he believed ran them.
The first eleven notebooks are filled with fragments of
writing and extraordinary sketches: totemic figures,
pierced bodies and enigmatic machines, some revealing
JusT PuBlIsheD
Antonin Artaud
50 DRawIngs TO muRDeR
magIc
TRanslaTeD By DONALD NICHOLSON-SMITH
eDITeD wITh a PReface By VELYNE GROSSMAN
the marks of a trembling hand, others carefully built up
from firm, forceful pencil strokes. The twelfth notebook,
completed two months before Artauds death in 1948,
changes course: its an extraordinary text on the loss of
magic to the demonicthe piece that gives the book its
title.
Artaud matters, wrote John Simon in the Saturday
Review years ago. Nearly seventy years after his death,
that remains trueperhaps more than ever.
ANTONIN ARTAUD (18951948) was the author of many books,
most famously of The Theater and Its Double.
DONALD NICHOLSON-SMITH is an English-born translator who
lives in New York City.
75

` 495
The French List

Paper
978 08574 2 350 4

96 pp
50 halftones

8.5 x 11"
Published February 2016
76
handrasekhar Kambar is one of the most accom-
C plished Indian writers working today. In each of
Kambars novels, the archetypical Mother, Karimayi,
is at the centre. The narrative of Karimayi moves through
an astounding time span, beginning with the mythopoetic
times of Goddess Karimayis birth and continuing through
the historical and cultural shifts in the life of a small rural
community called Shivapura during the British colonial
era.
Karimayi breaks the familiar narrative of an idyllic and
traditional village community being destroyed by the
incursion of modernity. Instead, the multilayered narrative
of Karimayi weaves everything into itselfthe story of the
JusT PuBlIsheD
Chandrasekhar Kambar
KaRImayI
TRanslaTeD By KRISHNA MANAVALLI
villages past, the myth of Karimayi, the disorder that sets
in with the invasion of colonial modernity and the lure of
the city, and, most importantly, of the disruption of
another form of native modernity that the village com-
munity has already begun to incorporate into its rhythms
of life. Cleverly challenging colonial cartography, Kambars
book plays with the idea of an eternal India that exists
between myth and reality.
CHANDRASEKHAR KAMBAR is an award-winning writer living in
India.
KRISHNA MANAVALLI is a translator, writer and professor of
English at Karnatak University, India.
77

` 525
The India List

Cloth
978 0 8574 2 390 0

296 pp
5 x 8"

Published
January 2017
78
Kluges mosaic doesnt feel like a refuge
so much as a reminder of the real world,
the whole real world, surprisingly
connected to itself, as full of thought as
of accident, all of it worth living in, and
worth (though Kluge is patient and
irenical) a fight.
PARIS REVIEW
n 5 October 2012, the German national newspaper
O
Die Welt published its daily issuebut things
looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of the
day, forgotten as soon as theyre read, were missing,
replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care
from the chaos of the contemporary.
JusT PuBlIsheD
Alexander Kluge, Gerhard Richter
DIsPaTches fROm
mOmenTs Of calm
TRanslaTeD By NATHANIEL MCBRIDE
That calm was the work of Gerhard Richter, who had
been granted control over Die Welt for that single day,
taking over and imprinting all thirty pages of the news-
paper with his personal stamp: images from quiet
moments amid unquiet times, the demotion of politics
from its primary position, the privileging of the private and
personal over the public, and, above all, artful, moving
contrasts between sharpness and softness. He had cre-
ated an unprecedented work of mass art.
Among the many people to praise the work was writer
Alexander Kluge, who instantly began writing stories to
accompany Richters images. This book brings their stories
and images together, along with new words and artworks
created specifically for this volume.
ALEXANDER KLUGE is one of the major German fiction writers
of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As
a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German
Cinema movement.
NATHANIEL McBRIDE is a writer and translator who lives in
London.
79

` 595
The German List

Cloth
978 08574 2 328 3

192 pp
64 colour plates

5.5 x 7.75"
Published June 2016
FORTHCOMING TITLES
82

zen Yula Ren Zavaleta Mercado

UNOFFICIAL ROXELANA TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE
and Other Plays NATIONAL-POPULAR IN BOLIVIA
EDITED BY IREM SEIL REEL SEN
TRANSLATED BY ANNE FREELAND
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARVIN CARLSON

` 850
In Performance

` 750
Elsewhere Texts
Paper
978 08574 2 385 6 Cloth
978 08574 2 358 0
328 pp
50 halftones 304 pp
6 x 9"
6 x 7.5"
Forthcoming Forthcoming
January 2017 February 2017

t a time when Turkey is struggling for its secular iden-
A tity, resisting the influence of ISIS and finding itself
at the heart of the European refugee crisis, accomplished
Turkish playwright zen Yula offers a deep, artistic port-
rait of the country and its culture. The plays in this collec-
tion illustrate how problematic power structures emerge
regardless of different governmental configurations,
always resulting in the repression of marginalized mem-
bers of society. With a contextualizing introduction by
Marvin Carlson and a lengthy interview with Yula, this first-
of-its-kind anthology is an invaluable glimpse into the
tempestuous and deeply artistic modern Turkey.
olivias foremost social and political theorist, Mercado
B held diplomatic and ministerial posts with the Revo-
lutionary Nationalist Movement in the 1950s and 60s,
before aligning with the Marxist Left where he developed
the creative, heterodox philosophy for which he is known.
This is his final and most significant work, available in
English for the first time. A work of reflexive social theory
that explores the limits of its own conceptual frameworks
through an engagement with the history that made pos-
sible its own conceptual horizons. An original reflection
on social formations and political knowledge that have far-
reaching implications for the Global South. Rooted in his-
tory and yet exceedingly relevant, Zavaletas revolutionary
work makes contemporary a long genealogy of theories
of the national-popularfrom Gramsci and Maritegui to
Fanon and Ho Chi Minh.
83

Klaus Merz Michle Lesbre

STIGMATA OF BLISS THE RED SOFA
Three Novellas TRANSLATED BY NICOLE AND DAVID BALL
TRANSLATED BY TESS LEWIS

` 495
The Swiss List

` 425
The French List
Cloth
978 08574 2 371 9
Cloth
152 pp
978 08574 2 373 3
15 halftones
104 pp
5 x 8"
5 x 8"
Forthcoming
January 2017 Forthcoming January 2017

laus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific and
K versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as
a master of concise, condensed sentences, Merz brings
depth and resonance to spare narratives with lyrical prose
and striking images.
Stigmata of Bliss collects three of Merzs critically
acclaimed novellas, offering English readers the perfect
introduction to his work. Jacob Asleep introduces a family
marked by illness, eccentricity and a childs death. In A
Mans Fate, a moment of inattention on a mountainous
hike upends a teachers life and his understanding of mor-
tality. And finally, The Argentine traces the fluctuations of
memory and desire in a mans journey around the world.
Read as a whole, the works complement, enrich and
echo one another.
n The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting
I off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her
former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the
train moves across post-Soviet Russia and its devastated
landscapes, Anne reflects on her past with Gyl and their
patriotic struggles, as well as on the neighbor she has just
left behind, Clmence Barrot who is old and whose mem-
ory is failing, but who has not lost her taste for life and
adventure. Ensconced on her red sofa at home, Clmence
loves to tell Anne her life story, mourning lost loved ones
and celebrating the lives of brave, rebellious women who
went before her. Eventually, Annes train trip returns her
home having not found Gyl, but having found something
much more meaningfulherself.
84

Luis Tapia Michel Leiris

THE PRODUCTION OF LOCAL PHANTOM AFRICA
KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATED BY BRENT HAYES EDWARDS

History and Politics in the Work of Ren

Zavaleta Mercado
TRANSLATED BY ALISON SPEDDING

` 1,250
The Africa List

Cloth

` 750
Elsewhere Texts 978 0 8574 2 377 1

720 pp
Cloth 37 halftones
978 0 8574 2 334 4
3 facsimiles
456 pp 1 map
6 x 9"
7.5 x 9"
Forthcoming Forthcoming
July 2017 April 2017

his book is the first comprehensive examination of the

T work of Bolivian political thinker Ren Zavaleta Mer-
cado (193984), whose ideas were a key influence on
many of the indigenous activists and ideologues who have
transformed Bolivian politics and economics in recent
years. Luis Tapia, a political analyst who has worked
closely with many of the central figures in todays Bolivian
government, presents a detailed panorama of Bolivian
history that sets Zavaletas analyses in context and helps
readers and activists alike understand the history and ide-
ological currents that underpinned the rise of the neo-in-
digenous movement in the twenty-first century.
O ne of the towering classics of twentieth-century French
literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately
unclassifiable work: a book composed of one mans com-
pulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal as well
as an exhaustively detailed account of the first French
state-sponsored anthropological expedition to visit sub-
Saharan Africa. Leiris kept a diary on that trip to Africa,
which, upon his return to France, he decided to publish.
The result is an extraordinary book: a day-by-day record
of one European writers experiences in an Africa inex-
orably shaded by his own exotic delusions and expecta-
tions on the one hand, and an unparalleled depiction of
the paradoxes and hypocrisies of conducting anthropo-
logical field research at the height of the colonial era on
the other.
85

EDITED BY Gunther Geltinger

Rachel Bowditch AND
MOOR
Pegge Vissicaro
TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER BOOTH
PERFORMING UTOPIA

` 750
Enactments

` 750
The German List
Paper
978 0 8574 2 386 3
Cloth
288 pp 978 0 8574 2 368 9
20 halftones
376 pp
6 x 9" 6 x 9"
Forthcoming Forthcoming
February 2017 February 2017

ts the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is grow-

F rom diasporic hip-hop battles, Chilean military parades,
commemorative processions, Blackfoot powwows and
post-Katrina Mardi Gras to the Philadelphia Mummers
Parade, Festas Juninas in Brazil, the Renaissance Fairs in
Arizona and neoburlesque competitionshow do these
performances rehearse and enact visions of a utopic
world? What can the lens of utopia and dystopia illumi-
nate about the potential of performing bodies to trans-
form communities, identities, values and beliefs across
time? Performing Utopia not only answers these questions
but also offers a diverse collection of case studies focusing
on utopias, dystopias and heterotopias enacted through
the performing body.
I ing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany.
An only child plagued with a devastating stutter, Dion is
ostracized by his peers and finds solace in the company
of nature, collecting dragonflies in a moor filled with myths
and legends. On the precipice of adulthood, Dion begins
to spill the secrets of his hearthis burning desire for fault-
less speech and his abiding relationship with his mother,
a failed painter with secrets of her own. Even as Dion spins
his story, his speech is filled with fissures and holesmuch
like the swampy earth that surrounds him. Nature, though
so often sublime, can also be terribly cruel. Moor is Dions
storya story of escaping the quicksand of loneliness and
of the demands we make on love, even as those surround-
ing us are hurt in their misguided attempts to bear our
suffering.
86

Amnon Raviv Alberto Asor Rosa

MEDICAL CLOWNING THE WRITER AND THE PEOPLE
The Healing Performance TRANSLATED BY MATTEO MANDARINI

` 750
Enactments

` 950
The Italian List

Paper
978 0 8574 2 387 0 Cloth
978 08574 2 342 9
240 pp
40 halftones 384 pp
6 x 9"
6 x 9"
Forthcoming Forthcoming
April 2017 January 2017

lowns are not just the stuff of backyard childrens par-
C ties any more. These days, clown doctors see patients,
especially children, to introduce humour and imagination
into an anxiety-filled and painful experience. The origins
of medical clowning can be traced to the Big Apple Circus
Clown Care Unit at the Infants and Childrens Hospital of
New York, established about thirty years ago. Since then,
the practice has developed extensively and medical
clowns now work in hospitals around the world.
Medical Clowning is the first guide to this phenome-
non, summing up decades of research, education and
practice to give readers a comprehensive look into this
innovative field.
riginally published in 1965, The Writer and the People
O was one of the key books in the revitalization and
invigoration of the young Left in late-1960s Italy. Aiming
to demystify the myth of populism, Alberto Asor Rosa
takes on Marxism and its legacy, the relationship between
Fascism and the Left, the prospects for militant anti-
Fascism, and more. He does so through detailed recon-
structions, analyses and critiques of some of the central
figures of modern Italian literature, including Giovanni
Verga, Carlo Casola, Antonio Gramsci and Pier Paolo
Pasolini. Translated into English for the first time, The
Writer and the People is both a historical text, helping us
understand postwar Italian politics and society, and a
living document, able to educate and inspire left-wing
activists today.
87

Meng Jinghui Elfriede Jelinek

I LOVE XXX CHARGES
and Other Plays (The Supplicants)
EDITED BY CLAIRE CONCEISON TRANSLATED BY GITTA HONEGGER

` 950
In Performance

Cloth
` 495
The German List
978 0 8574 2 384 9

320 pp Paper
60 halftones 978 0 8574 2 330 6
1 DVD 144 pp
6 x 7.5" 5 x 8.5"
Forthcoming Forthcoming
March 2017 January 2017

ixing high culture with mass culture, Meng Jinghuis
M plays address Chinas enduring revolutionary nostal-
gia and current social problems, challenging the artistic
status quo from the mainstream rather than the margins.
His creations range from new interpretations of canonical
Western masters like Shakespeare and Genet to improvi-
sational collaborations with actors on original works. This
anthology from Chinas most influential theatre artist
makes his plays available to an international readership in
English for the first time.
n Charges, Nobel Prizewinning writer Elfriede Jelinek
I offers a powerful analysis of the plight of refugees, from
ancient times to the present. She responds to the immeas-
urable suffering among those fleeing death, destruction
and political suppression in their home countries, and asks
what refugees want, how we as a society view them and
what political, moral and personal obligations they
impose on us. Looking at the global refugee crisis of our
current moment, she analyses challenges to the political,
social and psychological realities in safe, comfortable
Western countries, exploring what everyday language and
media coverage reveal about Western perceptions of
refugees. In a world where insecurity seems to spread by
the day, Charges is a timely, unflinching account of how
we treat those who come to us in need.
88
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
BLUMENBERG
TRANSLATED BY WIELAND HOBAN
` 525
The German List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 369 6
224 pp
5 x 8"
Forthcoming
March 2017
ne night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg
O returns to his study to find a lion lying on the floor as
if its the most natural thing in the world, stretched com-
fortably on the Turkmen rug, eyes resting on Blumenberg.
The next day, during his lecture, the lion makes another
appearance, ambling slowly down the aisle. But none of
his students seem to see it. What is going on here?
Blumenberg is the captivating and witty fictional tale
of this likeable philosopher and the handful of students
who come under the spell of the supernatural lion
including skinny Gerhard Optatus Baur, a promising
young Blumenbergian, and the delicate, haughty Isa, who
falls head over heels in love with the wrong man. Blumen-
berg will delight its English readers.
Franco Farinelli
BLINDING POLYPHEMUS
Geography and the Models of the World
TRANSLATED BY CHRISTINA CHALMERS
` 595
The Italian List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 378 8
192 pp
6 x 9"
Forthcoming
March 2017
n Blinding Polyphemus, Farinelli elucidates the philo-
I sophical correlation between cultural evolution and
shifting cartographies of modern society, giving readers
an interdisciplinary study that attempts to understand and
redefine the fundamental structures of cartography, archi-
tecture and the notion of space. Following the lessons
of nineteenth-century critical German geography, this is a
manual of geography without any map. To indicate where
things are means alreadyresponding, in implicit and unre-
flective ways, to prior questions about their nature. Blind-
ing Polyphemus not only takes account of the present
state of the Earth and of human geography, it redefines
the principal models we possess for the description of the
world: the map, above all, as well as the landscape, sub-
ject, place, city and space.
89
Yves Bonnefoy
POETRY AND PHOTOGRAPHY
TRANSLATED BY CHRIS TURNER
` 450
The French List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 425 9
64 pp
5.5 x 7.75"
Forthcoming
March 2017
he activity of the photographer has a direct, and pro-
T found, influence on what poetry seeks to be. And
poets, in their turn, are duty-bound to understand what
that activity consists in and even to come out and express
their reservations, worries or approval when confronted
with the varied and contradictory forms that the photo-
graph has takensince the days of the daguerreotype or
of Nadar preserving for us the gaze of Grard de Nerval,
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore or Charles Baudelaire.
This essay fastens on one of the disturbing effects of
the earliest photography: its introduction of a notion of
non-beingif not, indeed, nothingnessinto the world
of images. But it also fastens on a tale which picks up fig-
uratively on this effect and examines its dangers with a
sense of horror: Maupassants extraordinary short story
The Night.
Georg Trakl
A SKELETON PLAYS VIOLIN
Book Three of Our Trakl
TRANSLATED BY JAMES REIDEL
` 595
The German List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 429 7
256 pp
5 x 8.5"
Forthcoming
April 2017
he final volume in a trilogy of works by Trakl published
T by Seagull Books, this selection gathers Trakls early,
middle and late work, none of it published in book form
during his lifetime, and ranging from his haunting prose
pieces to his darkly beautiful poems documenting the first
bloody weeks of the First World War on the Eastern Front
to translations of unpublished poems and significant vari-
ants. Interpolated throughout this comprehensive and
chronological selection is a biographical essay that pro-
vides more information about Trakls gifted and troubled
life, especially as it relates to his poetry, as well as the nec-
essary context of his relationship with his favourite sibling,
his sister Grete, whose role as a muse to her brother is still
highly controversial.
90

Christa Wolf Alexander Kluge

ONE DAY A YEAR DRILLING THROUGH HARD
20012011 BOARDS
TRANSLATED BY KATY DERBYSHIRE 133 Political Stories
TRANSLATED BY WIELAND HOBAN

` 450 ` 750
The German List The German List

Cloth Cloth
978 0 8574 2 427 3 978 0 8574 2 428 0

128 pp 232 pp
5 x 8.5" 5.5 x 7.75"

Forthcoming Forthcoming
April 2017 April 2017

uring a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa
D Wolf was asked a curious question: would she
describe in detail what she did on 27 September? Fasci-
nated by considering the significance of a single day over
many years, Wolf began keeping a detailed diary of 27
September, a practice which she carried on for more than
fifty years until her death in 2011. The first volume of these
notes covered 1960 to 2000 and was published to great
acclaim more than a decade ago. Now translator Katy
Derbyshire is bringing the 27 September collection up to
date with One Day a Yeara collection of Wolfs notes
from the last decade of her life.
Both a personal record and a unique document of our
times, this is a compelling and personal glimpse into the
life of one of the worlds greatest writers.
lexander Kluge examines in 133 stories the tools
A available to political actors in the hard struggle for
power. What is a hammer in the business of politics? What
is a subtle touch? Finally, all these questions lead to a
single one: What is the political in the first place?
Politics, Kluge says, consists of everyday feelings in a
special state of matter. It is everywhere. It animates private
lives as well as the public sphere, and hence in his stories,
as well as the major figures, we also find the small, un-
known, almost nameless ones: Elfriede Eilers alongside
Pericles, Chilean miners next to Napoleon, or the sensitive
nape of a three-month-old childs neck beside Alexander
the Great.
91

Thomas Bernhard Gbor Schein

COLLECTED POEMS THE BOOK OF MORDECHAI AND
TRANSLATED BY JAMES REIDEL LAZARUS: TWO NOVELS
TRANSLATED BY ADAM Z. LEVY AND OTTILIE MULZET

` 850 ` 595
The German List The Hungarian List

Cloth Cloth
978 0 8574 2 426 6 978 0 8574 2 441 9

459 pp 232 pp
5 x 8" 5 x 8"

Forthcoming Forthcoming
April 2017 June 2017

homas Bernhard (193189) began his career in the
T early 1950s as a poet. Over the next decade, he wrote
thousands of poems and published four volumes of
intensely wrought personal verseincreasingly more
obsessive, filled with an undulant self-pity, counterpointed
by a defamatory, bardic voice utterly estranged with his
country, resulting in magisterial work of anti-poetry, one
that represents Bernhards harrowing experience with his
leitmotif of successfailure which makes his fiction and
drama such guilty pleasures.
Thus, his Collected Poems, translated into English for
the first time, is a key to understanding Bernhards irasci-
ble literary programme and black comedy found in virtu-
ally all his writings.
he Book of Mordechai and Lazarus both trace the
T legacy of the Holocaust: The Book of Mordechai tells
the story of three generations in a Hungarian Jewish fam-
ily, interwoven with the biblical narrative of Esther, while
Lazarus relates the relationship between a son, growing
up in the final decades of communist Hungary, and his fa-
ther, who survived the depradations of Hungarian fascists
during the Second World War. Mordechai is an act of re-
covery, an attempt to seize a coherent story from a histor-
ical maelstrom hardly limited to the twentieth century. By
contrast, Lazarus is, like Kafkas unsent letter to his own
father, an act of defianceagainst the fathers explicit re-
quest never to be the subject of his sons writing, yet
equally against the part of Hungarian society that remains
silent towards the crimes of the past.
92
Philippe Jaccottet
THE SECOND SEEDTIME
Notebooks, 198094
TRANSLATED BY TESS LEWIS
` 550
The Swiss List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 434 1
208 pp
5 x 8.5"
Forthcoming
May 2017
ne of Europes finest contemporary poets, Jaccottet
O is a writer of exacting attention. Through keen obser-
vations of the natural world, of art, literature, music and
reflections on the human condition, Jaccottet opens his
readers eyes to the transcendent in everyday life. The
Second Seedtime is a collection of things seen, things
read and things dreamt, gathering flashes of beauty dis-
persed like seeds that may blossom into poems or mo-
ments of inspiration. Jaccottet returns, insistently, to such
literary touchstones as Dante, Montaigne, Gngora,
Goethe, Kierkegaard, Hlderlin, Michaux, Hopkins, Bront
and Dickinson, as well as musical greats including Bach,
Monteverdi, Purcell and Schubert. The Second Seedtime
is the vivid chronicle of one mans passionate engagement
with the life of the mind, the spirit and the natural world.
Hans Blumenberg
LIONS
TRANSLATED BY KRI DRISCOLL
` 450
The German List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 430 3
104 pp
5 x 8"
Forthcoming
May 2017
or distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions
F were a life-long obsession. Lions collects thirty-two of
Blumenbergs philosophical vignettes to reveal that the
figure of the lion unites two of his other great preoccupa-
tions: metaphors and anecdotes as non-philosophical
forms of knowledge.
Each text is devoted to a peculiar leonine presence
or, in many cases, absencein literature, art, philosophy,
religion and politics. From Ecclesiastes to the New Testa-
ment Apocrypha, Drer to Henri Rousseau, Aesop and La
Fontaine to Rilke and Thomas Mann. Lions has much to
offer readers, both those already familiar with Blumen-
bergs oeuvre and newcomers looking for an introduction
to the thought of one of Germanys most important post-
war philosophers.
93

Svenja Leiber Max Frisch

THE LAST COUNTRY FROM THE BERLIN JOURNAL
TRANSLATED BY NIKA KNIGHT TRANSLATED BY WIELAND HOBAN

` 525
The German List

` 495
The German List

Cloth
978 08574 2 431 0 Cloth
978 08574 2 433 4
208 pp
6 x 9" 136 pp
5 x 8.5"
Forthcoming
May 2017 Forthcoming May 2017

n epic Bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk,
A son of the wainwright, child of a sleepy village in Ger-
manys north, where life is both simple and harsh. Ruven,
though, is neither. He has the ability to see sounds, lead-
ing him to discover an uncanny gift for the violin. When
he meets a talented teacher in the citys Jewish quarter,
Ruven falls under the spell of a prodigious future. But as
the twentieth century looms, Ruvens pursuit of his craft
takes a turn. But as the world Ruven knows disappears,
the gifted musician must grapple with an important ques-
tion: To what end has he devoted himself to his art?
hen Max Frisch moved into a new flat in Berlins
W Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal once
againthe Berlin Journal, whose literary form corre-
sponds to those of the now famous diaries from 194649
and 196671: observations about the writers everyday life
stand alongside narrative and essayistic texts, as well as
finely drawn portraits of colleagues such as Gnter Grass,
Uwe Johnson, Wolf Biermann or Christa Wolf. However,
most of all, the journal entries testify to the extraordinary
acuity with which Frisch observed political and social
conditions in East Germany as a resident of West Berlin.
The unmistakable Frisch is back, with no illusions, full
of doubt in his tone, and a playfully sharp eye for the
world and life.
94
Franz Fhmann
AT THE BURNING ABYSS
Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem
TRANSLATED BY ISABEL FARGO COLE
` 525
The German List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 432 7
232 pp
5 x 8"
Forthcoming
May 2017
icking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off,
P Fhmann probes his own susceptibility to ideologys
seductionsNazism, then socialismand examines their
antidote, the goad of Trakls enigmatic verses. He con-
fronts Trakls unliveable life, as his poetry transcends the
panaceas of black-and-white ideology, ultimately bringing
a painful, necessary understanding of the whole human
being: in victories and triumphs as in distress and defeat,
in temptation and obsession, in splendour and in ordure.
In 1982, the German edition of At the Burning Abyss
won the West German Scholl Siblings Prize, celebrating
its courage to resist inhumanity. At a time of political
extremism and polarization, it has lost none of its urgency.
Tomas Espedal
BERGENERS
TRANSLATED BY JAMES ANDERSON
` 475
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 442 6
128 pp
5 x 8"
Forthcoming June 2017
ergeners is a love letter to a writers hometown. The
B book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard
Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer Hof, a hotel that
has seen better days. But between these two global
metropolises we find Bergen, Norwayits streets and
buildings and the people who walk those streets and live
in those buildings. Using James Joyces Dubliners as a dis-
crete guide, Norwegian writer Tomas Espedal wanders
the streets of his hometown. On the journey, he takes
notes, reflects, writes a diary and draws portraits of the
city and its inhabitants. Espedals Bergeners is a book not
just about Bergen, but about lifein a way no one else
could have captured.
95

Yves Bonnefoy Giorgio Agamben

TOGETHER STILL TASTE
TRANSLATED BY HOYT ROGERS TRANSLATED BY COOPER FRANCIS

` 450
The French List
` 450
The Italian List

Cloth Cloth
978 0 8574 2 424 2 978 0 8574 2 436 5
80 pp 96 pp
5.5 x 7.75" 5.5 x 7.75"
Forthcoming Forthcoming
July 2017 July 2017

ogether Still is Bonnefoys final poetic work, com-
T posed just months before his death. The book is
nothing short of a literary testament, addressed to his
wife, his daughter, his friends and his readers throughout
the world. In these pages, he ruminates on his legacy to
future generations, his insistence on living in the present,
his belief in the triumphant lessons of beauty, and, above
all, his courageous identification of poetry with hope.
iorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense
G of taste has not historically been appreciated as a
means to know and experience pleasure or why it has
always been considered inferior to actual theoretical
knowledge. Taking a step into the history of philosophy
and reaching to the very origins of aesthetics, Agamben
critically recovers the roots of one of Western cultures car-
dinal concepts.
This volume will not only engage the authors
devoted admirers in philosophy, sociology and literary
criticism, but also his growing audience among art theo-
rists and historians.
96

Mahasweta Devi Niharika Banerjea, Debanuj

EDITED BY
Dasgupta, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Jaime M. Grant
MIRROR OF THE DARKEST
NIGHT FRIENDSHIP AS SOCIAL JUSTICE
TRANSLATED BY SHAMYA DASGUPTA
ACTIVISM
Critical Solidarities in a Global Perspective

` 695
` 450
The India List
Paper

Cloth 978 0 8574 2 443 3

978 0 8574 2 439 6 232 pp

208 pp 15 halftones
6 x 9" 6 x 9"

Forthcoming Forthcoming
July 2017 July 2017

ts the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished
I Wajid Ali Shahthe nawab of Awadh in Lucknowto
Calcutta. To the sound of the soulful melody of the
sarangi, the mercurial courtesan Laayl-e Aasman is playing
a dangerous game of love, loyalty, deception and
betrayal. Bajrangi and Kundan, bound by their love for
each other and for Laayl-e, struggle to keep their balance.
Ranging across generations and geography, the scale of
Laayl-es story sweeps the devil, a crime lord, and many
other remarkable characters into a heady mix.
riendship as Social Justice Activism brings together
F academics and activists to have essential conver-
sations about friendship, love and desire as kinetics for
social justice movements. The contributors featured here
come from across the globe and are all involved in diverse
movements, including LGBTQ rights, intimate-partner
violence, addiction recovery, housing, migrant labour and
environmental activism. Each essay narrates how living
and organizing within friendship circles offers new ways of
dreaming and struggling for social justice.
97
Carlo Ginzburg
FEAR, REVERENCE, TERROR
` 900
The Italian List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 435 8
208 pp
73 color plates
6 x 7.5"
Forthcoming
July 2017
e are surrounded by images. From our cell phones
W to our computers, from our televisions at home to
the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store
checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, com-
manding us to buy, scaring us, dazzling us. Fear, Rever-
ence, Terror invites us to look at images slowly, with the
help of a few examples: Picassos Guernica, the Lord Kitch-
ener Wants You First World World recruitment poster,
Jacques-Louis Davids Marat, the frontispiece of Thomas
Hobbes Leviathan, a cup of gilded silver with scenes from
the conquest of the New World. Are these political images,
Ginzburg asks? Yes, because every image is, in a sense,
politicalan instrument of power. Tacitus once wrote,
unforgettably, that we are enslaved by lies of which we
ourselves are the authors. Is it possible to break this bond?
Fear, Reverence, Terror will answer this question.
Paolo Virno
ESSAY ON NEGATION
Towards a Linguistic Anthropology
TRANSLATED BY LORENZO CHIESA
` 595
The Italian List
Cloth
978 0 8574 2 438 9
232 pp
5 x 8.5"
Forthcoming
July 2017
aolo Virno argues that negation is what separates
P verbal thought from silent cognitive operations.
Speaking about what is not happening here and now, or
about properties that are not referable to a given object,
the human animal deactivates its original neuronal empa-
thy, which is prelinguistic; it distances itself from the pre-
scriptions of its own instinctual endowment and accesses
a higher sociality, negotiated and unstable, which estab-
lishes the public sphere. In fact, the speaking animal soon
learns that the negative statement does not amount to
the linguistic double of unpleasant realities or destructive
emotions: while it rejects them, negation also names them
and thus includes them in social life. Virno sees negation
as a crucial effect of civilization, one that is, however, also
always exposed to further regressions.
98

Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Cavalletti

Osvaldo Ferrari CLASS
CONVERSATIONS, VOLUME 3 TRANSLATED BY ELISA FIACCADORI

TRANSLATED BY ANTHONY EDKINS

` 525
The Italian List
` 750
Cloth Cloth
978 08574 2 423 5 978 08574 2 437 2

208 pp 136 pp
5.5 x 7.75" 5 x 8.5"

Forthcoming Forthcoming
July 2017 July 2017

ecorded during Borges final years, this third volume
R of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari offers a rare
glimpse into the life and work of Argentinas master writer
and favourite conversationalist. With his signature wit,
Borges converses on the philosophical basis of his writing,
his travels and his fascination with religious mysticism.
He also ruminates on more personal themes, including the
influence of his family on his intellectual development, his
friendships and living with blindness.
These conversations are a testimony to the supple
ways that Borges explored his own relation to numerous
traditionsthe conjunction of his life, his lucidity and his
imagination.
n 1936, Walter Benjamin defined the revolutionary class
I as being in opposition to a dense and dangerous
crowd, prone to fear of the foreign and under the spell of
anti-Semitic madness. Today, in formations great or small,
that sad figure returnsthe hatred of minorities is rekin-
dled and the pied-pipers of the crowd stand triumphant.
Class is a striking montage of diverse materialsMarx
and Jules Verne, Benjamin and Gabriel Tarde. In it, Caval-
letti asks whether the untimely concept of class is once
again thinkable. Faced with new pogroms and state
racism, he challenges us to imagine a movement that
would unsettle and eventually destroy the crowd.
99

Hans Magnus Enzensberger Alexander Kluge and

THE SILENCES OF Gerhard Richter
HAMMERSTEIN DECEMBER
TRANSLATED BY MARTIN CHALMERS
39 Stories, 39 Pictures
TRANSLATED BY MARTIN CHALMERS

Now in Now in
PAPERBACK PAPERBACK

` 525
The German List
` 425
The German List

Paper Paper
978 0 8574 2 446 4 978 0 8574 2 444 0
402 pp 128 pp
64 halftones 39 color images
5 x 8" 5.5 x 7.75
Forthcoming Forthcoming
February 2017 February 2017

blend of a documentary, collage, narration and fic-
A tional interviews. A member of an old military family,
a brilliant staff officer and the last commander of the Ger-
man army before Hitler seized power, Kurt von Hammer-
stein, who died in 1943 before Hitlers defeat, was an
idiosyncratic character. Too old to be a resister, he re-
tained an independence of mind that was shared by his
children: three of his daughters joined the Communist
Party, and two of his sons risked their lives in the July 1944
plot against Hitler and were subsequently on the run till
the end of the war. Hans Magnus Enzensberger offers a
brilliant and unorthodox account of the military milieu
whose acquiescence to Nazism consolidated Hitlers
power and of the heroic few who refused to share in the
spoils.
n the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar
I illustrations, Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual
artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a col-
lection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept
photographs for the darkest month of the year.
In stories drawn from modern history and the contem-
porary moment, from mythology, and even from meteor-
ology, Kluge toys as readily with time and space as he
does with his characters. In Kluges work, power seems
only to erode and decay, never grow, and circumstances
always seem to elude human control.Accompanied by the
ghostly and wintry forest scenes captured in Richter's pho-
tographs, these stories have an alarming density, one that
gives way at unexpected moments to open vistas and nar-
rative clarity.
SELECT BACKLIST
102 sELECT BACKLisT

Terry Eagleton

TERRY EAGLETON is Thomas Warton Professor of REAsON,

English at the University of Oxford. His other books
FAiTH ANd
include The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990),
REvOLUTiON
Ideology (1991), Heathcliff and the Great Hunger
Reflections on the
(1995) and Literary Theory (2nd ed. 1996). God Debate

` 425
Paper

978 81704 6 347 4

185 pp

5.5 x 8"

WHY MARx
WAs RiGHT

` 495
Paper

978 81704 6 349 8

258 pp

5.5 x 8"
103 A L S O AVA I L A B L E

ON EviL HOW TO
REAd
LiTERATURE

` 425 ` 495
Paper Paper

978 81704 6 348 1 978 81704 6 356 6

176 pp 232 pp

5.5 x 8" 5.5 x 8"

THE THE
EvENT OF FUNCTiON OF
LiTERATURE CRiTiCisM
From the Spectator to
Post-Structuralism

` 495 ` 250
Paper Paper

978 81704 6 355 9 978 81704 6 264 4

264 pp 112 pp

5.5 x 8" 5.5 x 8"

104 A L S O AVA I L A B L E

Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Ferrari

CONvERsATiONs, vOLUME 1
TRANsLATEd BY JASON WILSON

The ideas and reflections and conjectures

documented in these pages are a kind of
last word from one of literatures true
sages. . . . As a master lecturer and
raconteur, Borges invariably shapes his
narrative arcs in the form of parabolae ` 595
Paper
rather than hyperbolae, plotting how to
978 08574 2 398 6
curve back as he brilliantly creates each 352 pp
looping outward thread. . . . in these 5.5 x 7.75"

dialoguesas in any genre he

attemptedthe fundamental unfairness of
his outrageous talent is almost always a
wonder and a delight.
RAIN TAXI

that configure a loose autobiography of a subtle, teasing

mind. Borgess favourite concepts, such as time and
uddhism, love, Henry James and the tango are just dreaming, are touched upon, but these dialogues are not

B a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinas

master writer, and extraordinary conversationalist,
discusses in the first volume of the remarkable new series,
Conversations. The eighty-four-year-old blind mans wit is
unending and results in lively and insightful discussions
a true memoir, they are unrestricted conversations about
life at present.
A dialogue between a young poet and the elder teller
of tales where all experience floats in a miracle that defies
linear time.
105

Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Ferrari

CONvERsATiONs, vOLUME 2
TRANsLATEd BY TOM BOLL

` 750
Cloth

978 08574 2 300 9

366 pp

5.5 x 7.75"

ngaging in a dialogue that is both improvisational

E and frequently humorous, Borges touches on sub-

jects as diverse as epic poetry, detective fiction,
Buddhism and the moon landing. With his signature wit,
he offers insights into the philosophical basis of his stories
and poems, his fascination with religious mysticism and
the idea of life as dream. These recollections are alive
to the passage of history, whether in the changing land- JORGE LUis BORGEs best-known works include Fictions (1944),
The Aleph (1949), The Book of Imaginary Beings (1957) and The
scape of Buenos Aires or a succession of political conflicts,
Labyrinth (1962).
leading Borges to contemplate what he describes as his
South American destiny. And they are a testimony to OsvALdO FERRARi is a poet, essayist and university teacher and
has organized radio talks with Alberto Girri and Ernesto sabato,
the supple ways in which Borges explored his relation to
among other important literary figures in Argentina.
numerous traditions.
106 ALSO AVAILABLE

Mahasweta Devi OLd WOMEN

TRANsLATEd BY
MOTHER OF 1084 GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK

TRANsLATEd ANd WiTH AN iNTROdUCTiON BY ` 250

SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY Paper

978 81704 6 144 9

110 pp

5.5 x 8.5"

BREAsT sTORiEs
TRANsLATEd BY
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK

` 295
Paper

978 81704 6 140 1

176 pp

` 295 5.5 x 8.5"

Paper
978 81704 6 139 5 dUsT ON THE ROAd
Activist and Political Writings
144 pp
EdiTEd BY MAITREYA GHATAK
5.5 x 8.5"

` 425
Paper

978 81704 6 143 2

MAHAsWETA dEvi (19262016) was one of 258 pp
india's foremost writers. Her powerful fiction 5.5 x 8.5"

has won her recognition in the form of the

THE BOOK OF THE HUNTER
sahitya Akademi (1979), Jnanpith (1996) and TRANsLATEd BY MANDIRA SENGUPTA ,

Ramon Magsaysay (1996) awards, among SAGAREE SENGUPTA

several other literary honours. she was also ` 325

Paper
awarded the Padma vibhushan in 2006 for
978 81704 6 204 0
her activist work among dispossessed tribal 149 pp
communities. 5.5 x 9"
107

TiTU MiR Mahasweta Devi

TRANsLATEd BY
RIMI B . CHATTERJEE OUTCAsT
` 325
Four Stories
Paper TRANsLATEd BY SARMISTHA DUTTA GUPTA

978 81704 6 174 6

126 pp

5.5 x 8.5"

BiTTER sOiL
TRANsLATEd BY IPSITA CHANDA

` 275
Paper

978 81704 6 147 0

160 pp

5.5 x 8.5"

FivE PLAYs ` 350

TRANsLATEd BY Paper
SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY
978 81704 6 189 0
` 325 122 pp
Paper 5. x 8.5"
978 81704 6 026 8
209 pp

5 x 8.5"

THE ARMENiAN
CHAMPA TREE
TRANsLATEd BY NIRMAL KANTI BHATTACHARJEE

` 125
Paper

978 81704 6 146 3

45 pp

5 x 8.5"
108 A L S O AVA I L A B L E

RUdALi THE GLORY OF

From Fiction to sRi sRi GANEsH
Performance TRANsLATEd IPSITA CHANDA

TRANsLATEd BY ` 325
ANJUM KATYAL Paper

978 81704 6 206 4

174 pp

5.5 x 9"

TiLL dEATH dO Us PART

TRANsLATEd BY VIKRAM IYENGAR

` 395
Paper ` 150
978 81704 6 138 8 Paper
161 pp 978 81704 6 186 9
5.5 x 8.5" 80 pp

5.5 x 8.5"

dEWANA KHOiMALA ANd

BEdANABALA THE HOLY BANYAN TREE
TRANsLATEd BY PINAKI BHATTACHARYA
Her Life. Her Times
` 250
TRANsLATEd BY
Paper
SUNANDINI BANERJEE
978 81704 6 258 3
81 pp

5.75 x 8"

iN THE NAME OF
MOTHER Four Stories
TRANsLATEd BY RADHA CHAKRAVARTY

` 175
` 275
Paper
Paper
978 81704 6 291 0
978 81704 6 211 8
80 pp
95 pp
5 x 8.5"
5.5 x 8.5"
109

THE QUEEN AFTER KURUKsHETRA

Three Stories
OF JHANsi TRANsLATEd ANJUM KATYAL

` 150
TRANsLATEd BY
MANDIRA SENGUPTA ,
SAGAREE SENGUPTA Paper

978 81704 6 290 3

54 pp

5.5 x 8.5"

WRONG NUMBER ANd

OTHER sTORiEs
` 425 TRANsLATEd BY SUBHRANSU MAITRA

` 150
Paper

978 81704 6 175 3 Paper

333 pp
978 81704 6 292 7
5.5 x 8.5" 80 pp

5.5 x 8.5"

BAiT Four Stories

OUR NON- TRANsLATEd ANd iNTROdUCEd BY
SUMANTA BANERJEE
vEG COW
and Other Stories ` 250
Paper
TRANsLATEd BY 978 81704 6 239 2
PARAMITA BANERJEE 102 pp

5.5 x 8.5"

ROMTHA
TRANsLATEd BY PINAKI BHATTACHARYA

` 175
` 250
Paper
Paper
978 81704 6 145 6
978 81704 6 138 8
116 pp
93 pp
5 x 8.5"
5.75 x 8.5"
110 A L S O AVA I L A B L E

K. G. Subramanyan HOW HANU

BECAME
set of ten fun fables which, combined HANUMAN
A with bold, arresting graphics in rust
and black, are a visual treat, speaking to
` 75
Paper

978 81704 6 135 7

children as well as adults in a whimsical 20 pp
language all their own. 8.5 x 9"

K. G. sUBRAMANYAN (19242016) was a

veteran artist who has worked with a wide
range of media and materials, exhibiting dEATH iN
EdEN
extensively both within and outside the
country. A major retrospective of his work
was held at the National Gallery of Modern ` 75
Paper
Art, delhi, in 2003. He was part of the arts
978 81704 6 137 1
faculty at Baroda and was professor emeritus 20 pp

8.5 x 9"
at Kala Bhavan, santiniketan. His writings on
art have been published widely.

CATs NiGHT iN THE

ANd dAY ZOO

` 75 ` 75
Paper Paper

978 81704 6 289 7 978 81704 6 136 4

16 pp 16 pp

8.5 x 9" 8.5 x 9"

111

WHEN GOd FiRsT ROBBY

MAdE THE
ANiMALs
HE MAdE THEM ALL
ALiKE
` 75 ` 75
Paper Paper

978 81704 6 013 8 978 81704 6 288 0

28 pp 20 pp

8.5 x 9" 8.5 x 9"

THE KiNG ANd HOW POPPY

THE LiTTLE GREW HAPPY
MAN

` 75 ` 75
Paper Paper

978 81704 6 012 1 978 81704 6 286 6

24 pp 14 pp

8.5 x 9" 8.5 x 9"

OUR FRiENds A sUMMER

THE OGREs sTORY

` 75 ` 75
Paper Paper

978 81704 6 011 4 978 81704 6 287 3

24 pp 18 pp

8.5 x 9" 8.5 x 9"

112
THE MAGiC OF MAKiNG
Essays on Art and Culture
Paper
6 x 9"
Forthcoming
March 2017
n this collection of essays, K. G. Subramanyan expresses
I his concerns with a wide range of issuesart, aesthet-
ics, visual perception and creativity; the importance of
craft practice and its nurturing; the role and future of old
traditions and cultural institutions in the contemporary
world; the detrimental effects of the Industrial Revolution
and high-technology societies; the constant depletion of
the environment; our nations inability to cope with the
education and employment of its divergent multitudes;
and the present-day scenes in art, education and society.
Acknowledging that globalization is an essential and
inevitable feature of modern civilization with its inbuilt
impulsions, Subramanyan emphasizes that an intelligent
human being must negotiate them with insight and vigi-
lance to ensure a space for himself (and for the community
he has intimate ties with) to grow towards greater fulfilment.
A L S O AVA I L A B L E
THE LiviNG TRAdiTiON
Perspectives on Modern Indian Art
Paper
6 x 9"
Forthcoming
March 2017
he fulfilment of a modern Indian artists wish to be part
T of a living tradition, that is, to be individual and innova-
tive, without being an outsider in his own culture, will not
come of itself; it calls for concerted effort. In this volume,
Subramanyan offers a theoretical groundwork for that effort
in his critical study of modern Indian art as it has evolved
through continuous interaction with several traditions, for-
eign and indigenous. In the course of his study, he touches
on the natural disctinctions between the Indian and Euro-
pean traditions, on the continuities in Indias folk traditions,
and on the attempts of several thinkers and artists to identify
an Indian artistic tradition or to deny it altogether in a quest
for personal expression or universality.
113
THE CREATivE CiRCUiT
Paper
6 x 9"
Forthcoming
March 2017
his series of five lectures discuss certain common
T terms and conceptssuch as modernity, eclecticism,
nostalgiawhich have entered our art vocabulary and
which lend themselves to reinterpretation today. Some of
the questions addressed are: What concept does a mod-
ern artist or critic have of current art activity? How does a
modern artist react to his environment and cultural inher-
itance? Under what perceptions or illusions or emotional
urges does he work? And what general norms of achieve-
ment can we think of in the highly heterogenous art scene
of today?
Subramanyan draws upon his considerable experience
as a practising artist and theoretician to present a series
of probing discussions which engage with contemporary
art concerns from a modern Indian perspective.
K . G . S U B R A M A N YA N
MOviNG FOCUs
Essays on Indian art
Paper
6 x 9"
Forthcoming
March 2017
ritten between the early 1960s and the mid-70s,
W these articles and lectures reflect on some of the
major concerns of the practising artist and scholar of mod-
ern Indian art: tradition and modernism, the question of
the image, the use of art criticism. There are also essays
on the work of Rabindranath and Abanindranath Tagore,
Ramkinker Baij and Amrita Sher-Gil. Together, they deal
with the focal changes taking place in the contemporary
art situationa period of great significance in terms of
cultural development, just about a decade and a half after
Indias hard-won Independenceand seek to put them in
perspective.
 114 SERIES: IN PERFORMANCE
sELECT BACKLisT: IN PERFORMANCE / sERiEs EdiTOR Carol Martin

Mohammed Albakry, Caridad Svich

Rebekah Maggor (eds)
iNsTRUCTiONs
TAHRiR TALEs FOR BREATHiNG
Plays From The Egyptian
Revolution and Other Plays

In Performance In Performance

` 950 Paper 720 pp ` 750 Paper 254 pp

978 08574 2 341 2 978 08574 2 111 1

6 x 7.5" 12 halftones 6 x 7.5" 12 halftones

Mati Visniec Lisa Peschel (ed. and introd.)

HOW TO ExPLAiN THE PERFORMiNG
HisTORY OF COMMUNisM CAPTiviTY,
TO MENTAL PATiENTs
and Other Plays
PERFORMiNG EsCAPE
Cabarets and Plays from the
EdiTEd BY JOZEFINA KOMPORALY
Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto
In Performance In Performance

` 950 Paper 504 pp ` 750 Paper 446 pp

978 08574 2 220 0 978 08574 2 000 8

6 x 7.5" 24 halftones 6 x 7.5" 30 halftones

Elfriede Jelinek Chiori Miyagawa

RECHNiTZ ANd THOUsANd
THE MERCHANT's YEARs WAiTiNG
CONTRACTs and Other Plays
TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY
GITTA HONEGGER

In Performance In Performance

` 950 Paper w/DVD 240 pp ` 525 Paper 329 pp

978 08574 2 225 5 978 08574 2 020 6

6 x 7.5" 10 halftones 6 x 7.5" 50 halftones

115

Serap Erincin (ed.) Sharon Aronson-Lehavi

sOLUM WANdERERs
and Other Plays and Other israeli
from Turkey Plays

In Performance In Performance

` 525 Paper 270 pp ` 595 Paper w/ DVD 314 pp

978 08574 2 001 5 978 19064 9 705 7

6 x 7.5" 35 halftones 6 x 9.25" 20 halftones

Yasmine Beverly Rana David Peimer (ed.)

THE WAR ZONE is ARMEd REsPONsE
MY BEd Plays from south
and Other Plays Africa

In Performance In Performance

` 525 Paper 181 pp ` 525 Paper 314 pp

978 19064 9 770 5 978 19064 9 707 1

6 x 7.5" 15 halftones 6.25 x 9.25" 29 halftones

Takeshi Kawamura Catherine Filloux

NiPPON WARs siLENCE OF GOd
and Other Plays and Other Plays
EdiTEd ANd iNTROdUCEd BY
PETER ECKERSALL

In Performance In Performance

` 525 Paper 390 pp ` 495 Paper 314 pp

978 08574 2 002 2 978 19064 9 709 5

6 x 7.5" 20 halftones 6 x 7.5"

 sEAGULL BOOKs PvT LTd
31A, S. P. Mukherjee Road, Calcutta 700 025
+91 33 2476 5865 / 69
books@seagullindia.com
www.seagullindia.com

Distributed in India by ATLANTiC PUBLisHERs &

disTRiBUTORs PvT LTd
7/22 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 110 002
+91 11 2327 3880 / 5880 / 2328 0451
orders@atlanticbooks.com
www.atlanticbooks.com

Promotional Agent sURiT MiTRA

MAYA PUBLisHERs PvT LTd
4821, Parwana Bhavan, 24 Ansari Road, Daryaganj,
New Delhi 110 002
+91 11 6471 2521 / 4354 9145
suritmaya@gmail.com

DESIGNED By Manasij Dutta, Seagull Books

PRINTED AND BOUND By Hyam Enterprises, Calcutta
www.seagullbooks.org