Yale Margellos Catalogue

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

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New Poetry

New Fiction

Concerto al-Quds

Blameless

Adonis

Claudio Magris

Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

Translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel

From the man revered as the greatest living Arabic poet, this deeply felt poem is a hymn to the troubled city of Jerusalem/ Al-Quds, embattled by the conflicting demands of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. “A monumental work.”—Jessica Hagedorn, author of Dogeaters

From one of Europe’s most revered authors, a tale of one man’s obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity’s darkest atrocities in order to oppose them. “[A] remarkable novel.”—New Yorker

Hardcover 2017 96 pp.

978-0-300-19764-8 $25.00/£18.99

Hardcover 2017 368 pp.

978-0-300-21848-0 $26.00/£16.99

The Mountains of Parnassus New Fiction

Czeslaw Milosz

Now available in paperback

Nobel laureate Milosz’s only work of science fiction available in English, this deliberately unfinished novel is set in a dystopian future where hierarchy, patriarchy, and religion no longer exist. “These aphoristic, hallucinatory shards are the slightly mismatched contents of a time capsule sent to us in the present.”

—Cynthia Haven, Times Literary Supplement

Exemplary Novels Miguel de Cervantes Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman Edited by Roberto González Echevarría “These twelve novellas, newly translated by the virtuosic Edith Grossman, are a revelation to us. They are a feast for Cervantes’ admirers, and stand truly by themselves—witty, naughty, trenchant, smart, widely ranging, thoroughly modern and readable.”—Richard Ford Available March 2018 Paper 2018 448 pp.

978-0-300-23053-6 $20.00/£12.99

Now available in paperback

The Walnut Mansion Miljenko Jergovic Translated by Stephen M. Dickey, with Janja Pavetic-Dickey An epic novel of twentieth-century Balkan life. “This multigenerational saga . . . amounts to a microcosm of the Balkan experience, in which everyday lives are punctured by history.”—New Yorker Paper 2017 456 pp.

978-0-300-22698-0 $22.00/£12.99

The Influence Peddlers Hédi Kaddour Translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan The eagerly awaited English translation of Kaddour’s award-winning novel of clashing cultures during the French colonial years.

Translated from the Polish by Stanley Bill

Hardcover 2017 184 pp.

978-0-300-21425-3 $25.00/£12.99

Little Jewel Patrick Modiano Translated from the French by Penny Hueston This luminous and haunting novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano addresses the struggles of a young woman adrift, imprisoned in an imperfectly remembered past. “A simple story . . . that grows richer with each reading.”—J.P. Smith, The Millions Flapped paperback 2016 168 pp.

978-0-300-22182-4 $16.00/£11.50

Such Fine Boys Patrick Modiano Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti Foreword by J. M. G. Le Clézio “Gently indicts the duplicity and futility of an entire generation. . . . Le Clézio . . . says it best in his foreword: ‘This is at once the clearest, the purest, and the most complex’ of Modiano’s novels.”—Michael Autrey, Booklist (starred review) Flapped paperback 2017 208 pp.

978-0-300-22334-7 $16.00/£12.99

Flapped paperback 2017 344 pp.

978-0-300-22288-3 $18.00/£14.99

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New Fiction

New Fiction

Sundays in August

The Valley of the Fallen

Patrick Modiano

Carlos Rojas

Translated from the French by Damion Searls

Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

“Nobel Prize–winner Modiano does more with less in this subtle and haunting noir. . . . Modiano makes the reader work to put the puzzle pieces in order, while maintaining a convincing atmosphere of tension and dread.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

This historical novel by one of Spain’s most celebrated writers imagines Francisco de Goya during his fraught years as official royal artist to the Spanish court in the early nineteenth century, and again during Franco’s Fascist era of the twentieth century.

Flapped paperback 2017 168 pp.

978-0-300-22333-0 $16.00/£12.99

Available May 2018 Hardcover 2018 320 pp.

978-0-300-21796-4 $26.00 /£20.00

Now available in paperback

The Dirty Dust Cré na Cille

Máirtín Ó Cadhain Translated from the Irish by Alan Titley This lilting translation of Máirtin Ó Cadhain’s internationally admired satiric novel is full of the brio and guts of the Irish author’s original. “Never mind that all of the characters are dead, The Dirty Dust is full of life.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post

Orthokostá A Novel

Thanassis Valtinos Translated from the Greek by Jane Assimakopoulos and Stavros Deligiorgis; Foreword by Stathis N. Kalyvas A preeminent work of modern Greek literature, this provocative novel poses difficult questions about the nation’s Nazi occupation and early Civil War years. “[A] chilling, arresting novel.”—Publishers Weekly

Paper 2016 328 pp.

978-0-300-21982-1 $16.00/£8.99

Cloth 2016 304 pp. 2 b/w maps 978-0-300-20999-0 $27.00/£16.99

Now available in paperback

The Book of Whispers

Graveyard Clay

Varujan Vosganian

Cré na Cille

Máirtín Ó Cadhain Translated from the Irish by Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson This brilliant new translation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece Cré na Cille, meant to spark debate and comparison with Alan Titley’s translation. “A rollicking recreation of a comic classic and a damn good read.”—Philip O’Leary, Dublin Review of Books Paper 2017 368 pp. 6 b/w illus.

978-0-300-22706-2 $16.00/£10.99

France, Story of a Childhood Zahia Rahmani Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud

Translated from the Romanian by Alistair Ian Blyth A harrowing account of the Armenian Genocide documented through the stories of those who managed to survive and descendants who refuse to forget. “Through family recollections, public accounts and factual reports, Varujan Vosganian has built an extraordinary novel that is also a memory machine.”—Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night Hardcover 2017 360 pp.

978-0-300-22346-0 $26.00/£18.99

At Twilight They Return A Novel in Ten Tales Zyranna Zateli Translated from the Greek by David Connolly

A heartbreaking autobiographical novel of an Algerian Muslim family’s unwelcoming reception in France. “With its appeal to humanity in the face of the politics of exclusion, this beautiful translation could not be more timely.”—Mark Sussman, Hunter College

This award-winning classic of contemporary Greek literature draws from classical mythology and ethnic folklore to tell the multigenerational story of a remarkable, doomed family. “As years go by, this book will be compared to the masterpieces of world literature.”—Dinos Siotis, Diavazo

Flapped paperback 2016 216 pp.

978-0-300-21210-5 $16.00/£10..99

Hardcover 2016 528 pp.

978-0-300-20071-3 $35.00/£18.99

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New Fiction

New Nonfiction and Memoir

Mesopotamia

Melancholy

Serhiy Zhadan

László F. Földényi

Prose translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler; poetry translated from the Ukranian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps

Translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson; Foreword by Alberto Manguel

A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nation’s post-independence years.

Available July 2018 Flapped paperback 2018 320 pp.

978-0-300-22335-4 $16.00/£12.99

“An astounding work: Földényi, a most learned man, brilliantly imaginative, illuminates the mysteries of melancholy by analyzing how great thinkers of the past pondered it. A major work of cultural history.”—Fritz Stern, University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University Cloth 2016 360 pp.

978-0-300-16748-1 $35.00/£20.00

Now avaialble in paperback

New Nonfiction and Memoir

The Book of Beginnings François Jullien

Fibrils

The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 Michel Leiris Translated from the French by Lydia Davis This much-anticipated translation brings the third volume of Michel Leiris’s acclaimed autobiographical essay to English-language readers for the first time. Lévi-Strauss proclaimed Leiris “incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century,” and his thirty-five-year autobiographical project is considered by many to be a primary document of artistic life in the twentieth century.

Hardcover 2017 256 pp.

978-0-300-21239-6 $30.00/£20.00

Now available in paperback

Scratches

The Rules of the Game, Volume 1 Michel Leiris Translated from the French by Lydia Davis “For me [Leiris’s] work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply.”—Francis Bacon Flapped paperback 2017 272 pp.

978-0-300-21237-2 $18.00/£12.99

Now available in paperback

Scraps

The Rules of the Game, Volume 2 Michel Leiris Translated from the French by Lydia Davis “I read with fervor the literary works of Michel Leiris. . . . He is incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century.”

—Claude Lévi-Strauss Flapped paperback 2017 248 pp.

978-0-300-21238-9 $18.00/£12.99

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Translated by Jody Gladding A capstone work from a renowned philosopher who explores how Western cultural biases may be challenged by classic texts in order to enter another way of thinking. “An encouraging, lively, and aspirational narrative offering an illumination in virtually every sentence.”

—Ron Slate, On the Seawall Paper 2016 152 pp.

978-0-300-22356-9 $17.00/£12.99

Journeying Claudio Magris Translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel A world-celebrated travel writer reinvents the form itself in this inviting account of journeys to Spain, Iran, Norway, Vietnam, Australia, and beyond. Seeking the kind of experience “that occurs when you abandon yourself to [the gentle current of time] and to whatever life brings,” he demonstrates that wandering is equal part wondering.

Available May 2018 Hardcover 2018 320 pp.

978-0-300-21851-0 $25.00/£16.99

The Hatred of Music Pascal Quignard Translated from the French by Matthew Amos and Fredrik Rönnbäck This provocative book explores the history of music, from prehistoric chants to the Holocaust and beyond, and exposes the disturbing power of music to manipulate and mesmerize. “Just about any reader will be perversely thrilled by the intersections Quignard unearths between the mind and the world of sound.”—Jeanne Bonner, Three Percent Cloth 2016 216 pp.

978-0-300-21138-2 $26.00s/£16.99

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Fiction Globetrotter

The Last Days of Mankind

David Albahari

The Complete Text Karl Kraus

Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac Flapped paperback 2014 216 pp.

978-0-300-20132-1 $15.00/£9.99

The Corpse Washer Sinan Antoon

Translated by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms Cloth 2015 672 pp. 8 b/w illus.

978-0-300-20767-5 $40.00/£25.00

Translated from the Arabic by the author

Blindly

Paper 2014 200 pp.

978-0-300-20564-0 $13.00/£8.99

Translated by Anne Milano Appel

Celestina

Claudio Magris Flapped paperback 2012 400 pp.

978-0-300-18536-2 $18.00/£14.00

Fernando de Rojas

The Black Envelope

Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden; Edited and with an Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría

Norman Manea

Flapped paperback 2012 288 pp.

978-0-300-14199-3 $13.95/£9.99

Fuenteovejuna Lope de Vega Translated by G. J. Racz; With an Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría Flapped paperback 2012 136 pp.

978-0-300-18152-4 $13.95/£9.99

Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander Venedikt Erofeev

Translated by Patrick Camiller Flapped paperback 2012 336 pp.

978-0-300-18294-1 $16.50/£13.00

Compulsory Happiness

The Lair Norman Manea

An Alternate Translation Witold Gombrowicz Translated by Danuta Borchardt Flapped paperback 2014 192 pp.

978-0-300-17530-1 $17.00/£12.99

Please Talk to Me Selected Stories Liliana Heker Translated by Alberto Manguel and Miranda France Flapped paperback 2015 224 pp.

978-0-300-19804-1 $16.00/£8.99

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Suspended Sentences Three Novellas Patrick Modiano

Translated by Mark Polizzotti Flapped paperback 2014 232 pp.

978-0-300-19805-8 $16.00/£12.99

Uday Prakash Flapped paperback 2013 224 pp.

978-0-300-19054-0 $15.00/£10.99

Translated by Jeffrey Gray

The Roar of Morning

Trans-Atlantyk

Flapped paperback 2015 160 pp.

978-0-300-21588-5 $16.00

The African Shore

A Novel Arturo Fontaine

For sale in North America, US territories and dependencies only

Translated by Phoebe Weston-Evans

Flapped paperback 2013 256 pp.

978-0-300-19879-9 $16.00/£9.99

La Vida Doble

Flapped paperback 2012 320 pp.

978-0-300-18167-8 $16.00

Patrick Modiano

Translated by Oana Sânziana Marian

Flapped paperback 2012 576 pp.

978-0-300-18172-2 $20.00/£14.99

Translated by Danuta Borchardt; Foreword by Susan Sontag

Paris Nocturne

Translated by Jason Grunebaum

Translated by Vlada Stojiljkovic; Edited by Ellen Elias-Bursac

Witold Gombrowicz

Flapped paperback 2015 216 pp.

978-0-300-21589-2 $16.00/£10.99

Flapped paperback 2012 272 pp.

978-0-300-18295-8 $16.50/£13.00

Flapped paperback 2014 152 pp.

978-0-300-15986-8 $18.00/£14.99

Ferdydurke

Translated by Mark Polizzotti

The Girl with the Golden Parasol

Cyclops

Flapped paperback 2014 312 pp.

978-0-300-20576-3 $15.00/£9.99

A Novel Patrick Modiano

Translated by Linda Coverdale

Norman Manea

Translated by Marian Schwartz; With an Introduction by Karen Ryan

Translated by Megan McDowell

After the Circus

Ranko Marinkovic

Tip Marugg

Translated by Paul Vincent Flapped paperback 2015 144 pp.

978-0-300-20764-4 $16.00/£10.99

Rodrigo Rey Rosa Flapped paperback 2013 160 pp.

978-0-300-19610-8 $13.00/£9.99

Severina Rodrigo Rey Rosa Translated by Chris Andrews Flapped paperback 2014 112 pp.

978-0-300-19609-2 $13.00/£8.99

The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell Carlos Rojas Translated by Edith Grossman

Masters and Servants Pierre Michon

Flapped paperback 2014 224 pp.

978-0-300-20586-2 $13.00/£8.99

Translated, Illustrated, and with a New Introduction by Wyatt Mason

Anna Karenina

Flapped paperback 2013 192 pp.

978-0-300-18069-5 $15.00/£9.99

The Origin of the World Pierre Michon Translated and with a New Introduction by Wyatt Mason; With an Afterword by Roger Shattuck Flapped paperback 2013 112 pp.

978-0-300-18070-1 $13.00/£9.99

Winter Mythologies and Abbots Pierre Michon Translated by Ann Jefferson Flapped paperback 2014 128 pp.

978-0-300-17906-4 $13.00/£9.99

Leo Tolstoy

Translated by Marian Schwartz; Edited and with an Introduction by Gary Saul Morson Paper 2015 792 pp.

978-0-300-21682-0 $20.00/£12.99

Five Spice Street Can Xue Translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping Flapped paperback 2012 352 pp.

978-0-300-16796-2 $12.00/£9.99

The Last Lover Can Xue Translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen Flapped paperback 2014 336 pp.

978-0-300-15332-3 $19.00/£9.99

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Nonfiction and Memoir Diary Witold Gombrowicz Translated by Lillian Vallee Flapped paperback 2012 800 pp.

978-0-300-11806-3 $23.00/£16.99

The Hooligan’s Return A Memoir Norman Manea Translated by Angela Jianu Flapped paperback 2013 400 pp.

978-0-300-19780-8 $20.00/£15.00

A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes Witold Gombrowicz Translated by Benjamin Ivry Flapped paperback 2012 120 pp.

978-0-300-18168-5 $9.95

Selected Poems Adonis Translated by Khaled Mattawa Flapped paperback 2012 432 pp.

978-0-300-18125-8 $20.00/£15.99

Second Simplicity New Poetry and Prose, 1991–2011

Pierre Michon Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays

Giacomo Leopardi Translated by Tim Parks Cloth 2014 232 pp.

978-0-300-18633-8 $26.00/£12.99

Selected Lyrics Théophile Gautier Translated by Norman R. Shapiro

Sketchbooks

Flapped paperback 2012 552 pp.

978-0-300-18155-5 $20.00/£15.00

Tales of a Severed Head Rachida Madani Translated by Marilyn Hacker

Selected Poems

The Poetry of Kabbalah

Seán Ó Ríordáin Edited by Frank Sewell

Notturno Gabriele D’Annunzio Translated and Annotated by Stephen Sartarelli; Preface by Virginia Jewiss Cloth 2012 344 pp.

978-0-300-15542-6 $30.00/£23.00

The Brazen Plagiarist Selected Poems Kiki Dimoula Translated by Cecile Inglessis Margellos and Rika Lesser Flapped paperback 2014 392 pp.

978-0-300-20573-2 $20.00/£10.99

Openwork Poetry and Prose André du Bouchet Selected, Translated, and Presented

by Paul Auster and Hoyt Rogers

Flapped paperback 2013 96 pp.

978-0-300-17265-2 $15.00/£9.99

Forthcoming —Available Autumn 2018

Flapped paperback 2013 320 pp.

978-0-300-19818-8 $25.00/£19.00

Flapped paperback 2014 544 pp.

978-0-300-20569-5 $20.00/£14.99

Flapped paperback 2012 368 pp.

978-0-300-17995-8 $16.50/£13.00

Passions

Flapped paperback 2012 176 pp.

978-0-300-17628-5 $18.00/£9.99

Translated and Annotated by Peter Cole Co-edited and with an Afterword by Aminadav Dykman

Norman Manea

Rimbaud the Son

Yves Bonnefoy Translated by Hoyt Rogers

Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition

Essays on Exile and Language

For sale in North America only

Poetry Adonis

The Fifth Impossibility

Cloth 2014 288 pp.

978-0-300-19058-8 $24.00/£16.99

Songbook The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba Umberto Saba Translated by George Hochfield and Leonard Nathan; Introduction, Notes, and Commentary by George Hochfield Flapped paperback 2012 592 pp.

978-0-300-18175-3 $25.00/£16.99

Mozart’s Third Brain Göran Sonnevi Translation, Preface, and Notes by Rika Lesser; Foreword by Rosanna Warren Flapped paperback 2012 240 pp.

978-0-300-18182-1 $15.00/£10.99

Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me And Other Poems

Ghassan Zaqtan Translated by Fady Joudah

France 1940–1944 Andrzej Bobkowski Translated from the Polish by Grazyna Drabik and Laura Engelstein

La République des Lettres

Marc Fumaroli Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud

Desirable Body

Hubert Haddad Translated from the French by Alyson Waters

Warda

Sonallah Ibrahim Translated from the Arabic by Hosam Aboul-Ela

Part Time Dragons

Maria Mitsora Translated from the Greek by Jacob Moe

Sentence to Hope

The Sa’dallah Wannous Reader Sa’dallah Wannous Translated from the Arabic by Robert Myers and Nada A. Saab

Love in the New Millennium Can Xue Translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen

Flapped paperback 2013 144 pp.

978-0-300-19840-9 $18.00/£9.99

Cloth 2014 368 pp.

978-0-300-19763-1 $26.00/£16.99

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