The Singing Man My Father Gave Me

Literature & Fiction

Mycue, Edward

Poetry

Menard Press

Towards the nuclear holocaust

Ryle, Martin

Fiction. Short Story. Translated from the French by Anthony Rudolph. GILLETTE OR THE UNKNOWN MASTERIECE is one of Balzac's most brilliant and fascinating works, and one of the great short stories in European literature. It has been widely influential among painters and writers since its early editions, and speaks to our own days in unexpected ways. Anthony Rudolf has made the first complete translation into English in over eighty years. In a long accompanying essay he discusses the text as a love story, as a parable of writing told in terms of painting, and as a remarkable foreshadowing of certain later developments in art, such as the work of Giacometti. He also discusses the sexual, mythological, financial and other aspects of this extraordinary multi-layered text, and vigorously contests the widespread view that Frenhofer is nothing but a failure and his painting nothing but a disaster. This reprint marks Balzac's bicentenary and Menard's 30th birthday.

Gillette or the Unknown Masterpiece

BALZAC, Honoré de

Short Stories & Anthologies

At an Uncertain Hour: Primo Levi's War Against Oblivion

Rudolf, Anthony

History & Criticism

<p>Cultural Writing. I'M NOT EVEN A GROWN-UP: THE DIARY OF JERZY FELIKS URMAN is edited and translated by Anthony Rudolf, whose second cousin Jerzy committed suicide in West Ukraine in 1943. The editor's introduction and notes attempt to portray the cataclysmic background and foreground to the dramatic and hopeless situation Jerzy found himself in. Rudolf includes a memoir written by Jerzy's mother, Sophie Urman who with her husband survived the war. Rudolf argues that in in circumstances where armed resistance was for the most part impossible or counterproductive, the child's death can be seen as an act of resistance of the noblest and most tragic kind. The diary has joined a growing literature of similar works written in hiding.</p>

I'm Not Even a Grown-Up: The Diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman

Jerzy Feliks Urman

Biographies & Memoirs

Red Knight: Serbian Women's Songs

French Language Edition. Poetry. T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets translated into French by Claude Vigée.

Quatre Quatuors

ELIOT, T.S.

A Necklace of Bees: Selected Poems

Mandelstam, Osip

Flow Tide

Vigée, Claude

Sage Eye: The Aesthetic Passion of Jonathan Griffin

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