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Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch: A Gothic Novel - Witold Gombrowicz, J.A. Underwood

Recollections of the Golden Triangle - Alain Robbe-Grillet, J.A. Underwood

Fifteen Generations of Bretons: Kinship and Society in Lower Brittany, 1720 1980 - Martine Segalen, J.A. Underwood

Gabriel Faure: His Life Throug - Gabriel Faure, Jean-Michel Nectoux, J.A. Underwood

The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus - J.A. Underwood, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Animal to Edible - Noelie Vialles, Noilie Vialles, J.A. Underwood

Highways Of The Faith: Relics and Reliquaries from Jerusalem to Compostela - Marie-Madeleine Gauthier, J. A. Underwood

Art Anti Art: Anartism Explored - Helene...

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Topology Of A Phantom City - Alain Robbe-Grillet, J.A. Underwood

The Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) - Franz Kafka, Idris Parry, J.A. Underwood

Possessed, Or, The Secret Of Myslotch - Witold Gombrowicz, J.A. Underwood

One-Way Street and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) - Walter Benjamin, Amit Chaudhuri, J.A. Underwood

Franz Kafka Stories 1904-1924 - Franz Kafka, J.A. Underwood, Jorge Luis Borges

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DubaiReader rated it

9 years ago

text Marrakesh in the '50s.

I had been wanting to read this book ever since I visited Morocco and wandered through the streets and market of Marrakesh. It's quite a short book and very atmospheric, but I didn't think it was particularly well written, given that Elias Canetti was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. ...

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shell pebble rated it

11 years ago

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A young land surveyor arrives in a village, appointed by the count of the castle on the hill overshadowing the country. In a dreamlike, labyrinthine tale riddled with material and emotional inconsistencies,Kafka envisions a bureaucratic administration bloated and twisted beyond all imaginings, in wh...

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Wounded Child Prostitute rated it

12 years ago

text Recollections of the Golden Triangle

Like walking inside myself. Where I live, or even like a dream I often have where I am lost in the city, I can't find the right bus route, and the very air around me is golden. One comparison that comes to mind is being Diddy in Sontag's 'Death Kit'. But never mind, you either go or you don't. What ...

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