A comparison between the work and ideas of Beckett and Giacometti, focusing on what Megged believes is their common quest to find a "dialogue in the void."

Dialogue in the Void: Beckett & Giacometti

Megged, Matti

Arts & Photography

Lumen Books

Eighteen Nicaraguan writers and others comment on the current political and social conditions of Nicaragua and discuss their own work.

Culture & Politics in Nicaragua: Testimonies of Poets and Writers

History

White, Steven

Americas

The first collection of Goytisolo's essays to appear in English. "Rarely does fortune deliver so significant a book....This collection of essays qua travel literature is in fact a serious study of the nature of understanding."--Small Press

Space in Motion

Literature & Fiction

Goytisolo, Juan

Essays & Correspondence

Michael Benedikt teaches, practices architecture, and writes in Austin, where he is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas. His second book, Deconstructing the Kimbell (0-930829-16-6), is also published by Lumen. "Benedikt has written a bold theoretical essay, with stirring cultural implications, that argues to restore the missing sense of reality to architecture and insists on ‘the direct esthetic experience of the real.’ . . . a timely manifesto. Thought-provoking and eminently quotable, it succeeds admirably in what it sets out to do: to recall architecture, and not only architecture, to those all but mute meanings so often passed over and yet inseparable from our everyday existence.—Karsten Harries "This book will still be useful when this year's round arches have all been remodeled (isn't it inevitable?) into pointed. And because it is so vividly -and thoughtfully--written, it will still be a pleasure to read."—Charles Moore "Every literate architect should take an afternoon off to read and ponder this brief and thoughtful and thoroughly engaging book. . . . Benedikt says more about some central aesthetic and philosophical issues confronting contemporary architecture than many celebrated pundits manage to squeeze into a shelfful of books. . . . He offers a straightforward account of his own struggle to understand the pleasures and responsibilities of architecture in an age when aesthetic pleasure is all but indiscernible from entertainment, and responsibility is often a cover for thoughtless conformity."—Roger Kimball, Architectural Record "Benedikt marches bravely into the philosophical thicket to find a working definition of reality. . . . In his sensibilities, he is quite transcendental, much like a Thoreau or an Emerson in a hotel lobby of potted ficus trees."—Howard Mansfield, Small Press ". . . the book of the decade in Texas architectural circles. . . "—Texas Architect

For an Architecture of Reality

Benedikt, Michael

History & Criticism

Eighteen Nicaraguan writers and others comment on the current political and social conditions of Nicaragua and discuss their own work.

Culture and Politics in Nicaragua - Testimonies of Poets and Writers

Sor Juana's Dream

Politics & Social Sciences

de la Cruz, Sister Juana Ines

Women's Studies

The definitive edition of this celebrated collection of Borges 1930 s and 40s film reviews, complemented by Cozarinsky's "excellent introduction" (Sight and Sound) as well as his critical studies of eight film adaptations of Borges's work. "Borges's view of film as a story-telling mechanism is a necessary corrective..."--Andrew Sarris

Borges in/and/on Film

Humor & Entertainment

Cozarinsky, Edgardo

Movies

A dramatization of the passion of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a Mexican nun regarded as one of her country's greatest poets.

Reverse Thunder: A Dramatic Poem

Ackerman, Diane

Dramas & Plays

Book by Baratloo, Mojdeh, Balch, Clifton J.

Angst: Cartography

Baratloo, Mojdeh

Balch, Clifton J.

Essays by the author of Cobra and Maitreya exploring literature, painting, simulation in animals and humans as well as the ideas of Barthes, Derrida, and Kristeva. "An important document in the history of Latin American literary criticism."--Alfred MacAdam, Review

Written on a Body

Sarduy, Severo

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