My Unwritten Books

Biographies & Memoirs

STEINER, George

Arts & Literature

New Directions Publishing Corporation

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987: Bilingual Edition

Literature & Fiction

PAZ, OCTAVIO

United States

The dark side of On the Road : instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life. Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.

Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Contemporary

With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads

LEVERTOV, Denise

Selected Writings of Charles Olson

Olson, Charles [Robert Creeley, Ed]

History & Criticism

A collection of abstracted prose stories with illustrations.

In Quest of Candlelighters

Patchen, Kenneth

Poetry

Bark Tree R Queneau

R Queneau

"First published as New Directions Paperbook 287, 1970; published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited."--T.p. verso.

Dragon Country

WILLIAMS, Tennessee

The Build-up, Volume 3 of the Stecher Trilogy, picks up the thread of White Mule and In the Money. Although all of the novels deal with the triumphant rise of an immigrant family in the early 1900s, The Build-up is more concerned with the overwhelming drive and ambition of Joe Stecher's wife, Gurlie. After years of hard work, careful planning (and his wife's badgering) Joe's printing business is providing his family with a comfortable income. As soon as her financial goal is realized, Gurlie focuses her attention on another area. Her phenomenal energy is soon earning her all unassailable position as a social leader in a small New Jersey suburb. Her achievement is not without its heartache, however. This story is told with all the gentle humor and exacting detail that mark Williams's prose works.

The Build-up: Volume 3, Stecher Trilogy

WILLIAMS, William Carlos

WCW, A Voyage to Pagany. Novel about an American Poet traveling through Europe.

A Voyage to Pagany (New Directions Paperbook)

Literary

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the New Directions Publishing Corporation publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by New Directions Publishing Corporation