Results for 'samuel beckett'

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  1. The Sickness Unto Death
    1. Søren Kierkegaard

    The Sickness Unto Death

    A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus

    Explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of bleak abandonment and offering a much-discussed formula for the eradication of despair. This book is famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights.

    € 14,95
  2. Malina
    1. Ingeborg Bachmann

    Malina

    A portrait, in language, of female consciousness, truer than anything written since Sappho's Fragment 31. Once you're in, you're in ... You're racing along, deep in the rhythms of the narrator's thoughts, which are bone-true and demonically intelligent

    € 13,95
  3. Discourse on Method and Related Writings
    1. René Descartes

    Discourse on Method and Related Writings

    Suitable for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science.

    € 14,95
  4. The Music of Chance
    1. Paul Auster

    The Music of Chance

    Paul Auster's unsettling tale of chance and gambling from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian) Paul Auster fuses Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and The Brothers Grimm in this brilliant and unsettling parable.

    € 13,95
  5. Molloy
    1. Samuel Beckett

    Molloy

    Introduced by Colm Tóibín

    But as Moran's physical and mental state deteriorate, his narrative starts to mirror Molloy's in mysterious ways.Molloy is the first of the three great novels Samuel Beckett produced during his 'frenzy of writing' in the late 1940s.

    € 12,50
  6. Morning and Evening
    1. Jon Fosse

    Morning and Evening

    A novel about the birth and death of Johannes the fisherman – a key work in 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse’s oeuvre. 

    € 19,95
  7. A Spy In The House Of Love
    1. Anaïs Nin

    A Spy In The House Of Love

    Anais Nin (1903-1977) was a French-born author of Catalan, Cuban and Danish descent. She became famous for her erotica, as well as for her published diaries, which span more than sixty years, beginning when she was eleven years old and ending shortly before her death.

    € 17,95
  8. Dead Souls
    1. Nikolai Gogol

    Dead Souls

    Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale;

    € 23,50
  9. Giacometti in Paris
    1. Michael Peppiatt

    Giacometti in Paris

    Giacometti’s beanpole people became icons of 20th-century art and Michael Peppiatt’s compelling portrait cuts to the core of the sculptor’s “strange life and his stranger fame” . . . Appalling and fascinating. You’ll never look at a Giacometti the same way

    € 41,50
  10. Scenes from a Childhood
    1. Jon Fosse

    Scenes from a Childhood

    Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing.

    € 14,95
  11. Finnegans Wake
    1. James Joyce

    Finnegans Wake

    Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night.

    € 17,95
  12. Ambivalence
    1. Brian Dillon

    Ambivalence

    A memoir of Dublin in the 1980s and 1990s, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life, by Brian Dillon, ‘one of the true treasures of contemporary literature’ (Mark O’Connell). 

    € 17,95