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Hermann Burger,
Diabelli

Together with other disillusioned illusionists, the titular magician exposes the dark underside of art, intent on unveiling life's elegant deception In following the tales of these magicians of madness, D…

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Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud
The Messengers

A Kafkaesque odyssey across a dreamlike, universal landscape An unnamed adolescent drifter wanders through an unnamed country at an unspecified point in time in search of warmth and comfort. He finds it a…

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Charles Cros
The Science of Love and Other Writings

The first English collection of Cros' writings: from treatises on interplanetary communication to a sardonic science of seduction An indefinable polymath of fin de siècle Paris, Charles Cros made work tha…

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John Davis
Harry Hodgetts

From 'Big Shot' to 'Swindler'. From 'palatial two-storey Kensington Park home' to 'the cold cells of Adelaide Gaol'. Racier newspapers gloated when Harry Hodgetts was convicted of fraud and false pretence…

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Alexander M Frey,
Fantastic Orgy

Maimed beggars, female automatons, cultural prosthetics: four tales of opulence, poverty and grotesque empathy from the Weimar Republic First published in 1924, Fantastic Orgy is most notable for its titl…

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Joris-Karl Huysmans,
Domesticity

Steeped in sardonic pessimism, this ode to sterility was one of the author's own favorite novels of his career Joris-Karl Huysmans' semi-autobiographical third novel, first published in French in 1881, si…

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Jean Lahougue,
Vacated Landscape

A truly mind-bending novel from an author prized for his experimental fusions of nouveau roman techniques and Oulipian constraints An editor at a Parisian publishing house receives a manuscript by someone…

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Jean-Pierre Martinet,
With Their Hearts in Their Boots

A raucous, macabre tale of failure from the filmmaker-turned-writer whose work has garnered cultish attention in recent years Georges Maman is a down-and-out actor sinking into despair and no longer able …

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Mises
Stapelia Mixta

A compilation of 16 rigorous, eccentric essays commissioned by the German founder of psychophysics The original 1824 German publication of Stapelia Mixta united a bevy of eccentric proposals, meditations …

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Stephen Orr
Shining Like The Sun

Wilf Healy lives in the wheatbelt town of Selwyn, works in Monk's Irish pub, delivers letters, drives the school bus, holds the place together. But he's had enough, wants to retire - to forget his nephew …

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Gaston De Pawlowski,
New Inventions and the Latest Innovations

Satirical yet prophetical advertisements for imaginary new products, influential to Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia Originally published in book form in 1916, this volume of French author Gaston de Paw…

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Pascal Quignard
The Answer to Lord Chandos

In defense of the poetic, Pascal Quignard pens an impassioned reply to von Hofmannsthal's despondent Lord Chandos In 1902, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Lord Chandos Letter articulated a deep crisis of faith in…

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Rachilde,
The Tower of Love

"A captivating exercise in intriguing symbolism." --John Taylor, Times Literary Supplement When Jean Maleux, a young sailor, is appointed assistant keeper of the Ar-Men lighthouse off the coast of Brittan…

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Kerrie Round, Sandra Kearney
The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History

The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History is a one-volume guide to events, institutions, people, places, themes and topics of significance in the history of South Australia. It provides an autho…

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David Sly
Finnenisms

'I've been told that I'm married to my music, and - fair enough - I have to admit it's the most successful marriage I've had in my life.' For 70 years, Chris Finnen has grooved to the music in his mind -…

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Jacques Sternberg,
The Employee

Sternberg's rule-breaking, genre-defying novel upends the humdrum workday world A nameless employee stands outside the door to an office, hesitating to enter because he is five minutes late. This banal op…

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Emil Szittya,
The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards

For devotees of Dada and Surrealism, this outlandish, unconventional collection of prose poems amplifies a formerly invisible voice of European modernism Emil Szittya's earliest known work of significance…

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Remedios Varo,
On Homo Rodans and Other Writings

An updated, expanded edition of Remedios Varo's translated writings, including pieces never before published in any language With the 2018 publication of Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings, Wakefield Pre…

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Boris Vian
Trouble in the Swaths

A rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience of family …

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An Indigenous South

From its earliest years, South Australia was the most German of the Australian colonies. As they contributed to the founding and consolidation of a British colony, Germans observed the processes of dispo…

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