Resultaten voor 'kate briggs'
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Lili is Crying
Lili is Crying, Hélène Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love - of desire run cold - and the promise of renewal. Lauded by critics on its initial publication in 1953 for its boundary-pushing style, unusual economy of expression, strange humour and sheer vivacity, Lili is Crying announces Bessette's singular take on the 'poetic novel'. This edition marks the very first translation of Bessette's work into English, by Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author and translator Kate Briggs.
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The Long Form
It's early morning and there's a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully she'll sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form is the story of two people composing a day together. It is a day of movements and improvisations, common and uncommon rhythms, stopping and starting again. As the morning progresses, a book - The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - gets delivered, and the scope of the day widens further. Matters of care-work share ground with matters of friendship, housing, translation, aesthetics and creativity. Small incidents of the day revive some of the oldest preoccupations of the novel: the force of social circumstance, the power of names, the meaning of duration and the work of love. With lightness and precision, Kate Briggs renews Henry Fielding's proposition for what a novel can be, combining fiction and essay to write an extraordinary domestic novel of far-reaching ideas.
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This Little Art
An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others.
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Twenty Minutes of Silence
In an opulent villa near the English channel lives a well-to-do family. A man-a husband, father, and employer-has been shot dead. The bullet is from his own gun, which he got from the Germans during the war. In this family, the father has a safe, a monkey wrench, a wife, and a maid named Rose. The son has a swing, a croquet set, a rain coat, and a car. They all read detective novels to fall asleep (the father), to stay awake (the son), to distract herself from an empty marriage (the mother). Packed with brutal revelations, the novel centers on the twenty minutes of silence it takes for the family to alert the doctor (who lives next door) of the father's death. Everything in this high-octane drama is subject to change, including the setting and the characters, who are truer to life than might at first appear. But who if anyone is the true criminal and who is the victim? In this marvelous and sui generis novel, written in Bessette's signature taut and stripped-back prose, the detective novel is turned inside out and wholly on its head.
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Twenty Minutes of Silence
Darkly comedic and wonderfully strange,Twenty Minutes of Silenceis a truly original take on the crime genre, inspired by a true story.
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Lili Is Crying
A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 Shortlisted for the 2025 French-American Foundation Translation Prize Lili Is Crying, Hélène Bessette's debut novel, conveys with singular force the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother, Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love-of desire run cold-and the promise of renewal. Lauded by critics on its initial 1953 publication for its boundary-pushing style, Lili Is Crying catapulted Bessette to cult status in France. The novel is moving and maddening in turns, with its characters trapped in their own cruelties and sorrows, but in its spareness and strength it feels true. "Show me a woman who's chosen something." Bessette's books were hailed for their unusual economy of expression, rarity, strange humor, and sheer vivacity. She characterized her new kind of novel as "a freshly cut slice of life, whose force comes from its lack of commentary."
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Kücük Bir Sanat
Bir romanin hacmine ve ritmine sahip Kücük Bir Sanat, edebiyatcevirisi pratigine dair büyüleyici ve incelikli bir deneme. Kendiside cevirmen olan Kate Briggs, baskalarinin eserlerini okumak, yazmak ve yasamak üzerine taptaze, capcanli fikirler sunuyor. Yazar,Roland Barthesin ders notlarini cevirme deneyiminden hareketle,zorlayici, karmasik ve iliskisel bir faaliyet olan ceviriyi farkli öykülerle ayni potada eritiyor Helen Lowe-Porterin Thomas Mann cevirilerini ve ölümünden sonra bu cevirilerin karalanmasini anlatiyor; André Gide ile cevirmeni Dorothy Bussy arasindaki sevgi dolu iliskiyi yaziyor; Robinson Crusoenun issiz bir adada kendisi icin nasil binbir zahmetle bir masa ürettiginden bahsediyor.Briggse göre bir ceviriyi okumak inancsizligi askiya almayi gerektirir Okudugunuz kelimelerin aslen baska bir dilde ortaya ciktigini bilirsiniz ancak araciyi unutmaya ve onlari yeniden özümsemeye calismak zorundasinizdir. Briggs, öznel bir ceviri deneyiminin cokkatmanli disavurumu olan Kücük Bir Sanat ile özgün, bilge, komik ve dikkate deger bir yazar olarak boy gösteriyor.Kate Briggsin Kücük Bir Sanati, Barthesin kendi calismalariylabazi sahane nitelikleri paylasiyor - nükte, incelik, söylesiye davetve özellikle titizlikle incelenmis kuramsal ve bilimsel sorular bag-laminda siradan ve gündelik olana gösterilen ilgi. Bu, son derecekeyifli bir okuma Ceviri, yazi, dil ve ifade ile ilgilenen herkes icinegitici ve ufuk acici.Lydia Davis
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The Long Form
"The story of two people (Helen, a young mother, and her baby) composing their day together, when their day gets interrupted by a book. From here, Helen, her baby, and books spend the day together, entwined, along with the social realities Helen encounters in an everyday world of class and privilege, housing and care work, creativity and frienship."--
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Introduction to Kant's Anthropology
Foucault's previously unpublished doctoral dissertation on Kant offers the definitive statement of his relationship to Kant and to the critical tradition of philosophy. This introduction and commentary to Kant's least discussed work, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, is the dissertation that Michel Foucault presented in 1961 as his doctoral thesis. It has remained unpublished, in any language, until now. In his exegesis and critical interpretation of Kant's Anthropology, Foucault raises the question of the relation between psychology and anthropology, and how they are affected by time. Though a Kantian "critique of the anthropological slumber,” Foucault warns against the dangers of treating psychology as a new metaphysics, explores the possibilities of studying man empirically, and reflects on the nature of time, art and technique, self-perception, and language. Extending Kant's suggestion that any empirical knowledge of man is inextricably tied up with language, Foucault asserts that man is a world citizen insofar as he speaks. For both Kant and Foucault, anthropology concerns not the human animal or self-consciousness but, rather, involves the questioning of the limits of human knowledge and concrete existence. This long-unknown text is a valuable contribution not only to a scholarly appreciation of Kant's work but as the first outline of what would later become Foucault's own frame of reference within the history of philosophy. It is thus a definitive statement of Foucault's relation to Kant as well as Foucault's relation to the critical tradition of philosophy. By going to the heart of the debate on structuralist anthropology and the status of the human sciences in relation to finitude, Foucault also creates something of a prologue to his foundational The Order of Things. Michel Foucault (1926-84) is widely considered to be one of the most important academic voices of the twentieth century and has proven influential across disciplines.
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