Kaysen, Susanna: FAR AFIELD.
Author: Kaysen, Susanna
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 1990
No. of pages: 338
Illustrations: 3 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 5 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 679753761
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 3926
Price: $12.50
Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthroplogy, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone “study,” the culture he encounters. From his struggles with the local cuisine to his affair with the Danish woman the locals want him to marry, Jonathan is both repelled by and drawn into the Faroese way of life. Wry and insightful, this book reveals the author’s gifts of imagination, satire and compassion.
KNUT HAMSUN THE DARK SIDE OF LITERARY BRILLIANCE.
Author: Zagar, Monika
Country: Washington
Language: English
Year Published: 2009
No. of pages: 343
Illustrations:
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9780835989464
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index.
Code: 7064
Price: $12.50
In her incisive study of Hamsun, Monika Zagar refuses to separate his political and cultural ideas from his highly regarded writing. Her analysis reveals the ways in which messages of racism and sexism appear in plays, fiction, and none-too-subtle nonfiction produced by a prolific author over the course of his long career. In the process, Zagar illuminates Norways changing social relations and long history of interaction with other peoples. Extensive notes.
KRZADOCK THE ONION MAN. And the Spring-Fresh Methuselah
Author: Levy, Louis
Country: Massachusetts
Language:
Year Published: 2017
No. of pages: 137
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 7 1/2”x 5”
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: 9781939663283
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 7089
Price: $29.50
Originally published in Danish in 1910, Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah is a fevered pulp novel that reads like nothing else of its time: an anomaly within the tradition of the Danish novel, and one that makes for a startlingly modern read to this day. Combining elements of the serial film, detective story and gothic horror novel, Kzradock is a surreal foray into psychoanalytic mysticism. Opening in a Parisian insane asylum where Dr. Renard de Montpensier is conducting hypnotic séances with the titular Onion Man, the novel escalates quickly with the introduction of battling detectives, murders and a puma in a hallucinating movie theater before shifting to the chalk cliffs of Brighton. It is there that the narrator must confront a ghost child, a scalped detective, a skeleton, a deaf-mute dog and a manipulative tapeworm in order to properly confront his own sanity and learn the spiritual lesson of the human onion. When Gershom Scholem read the novel in its 1912 German translation on the recommendation of Walter Benjamin, he concluded: “This is a great book, and it speaks a formidable language This book lays out the metaphysics of doubt.”
Kurtén, Björn: DANCE OF THE TIGER. A Novel of the Ice Age
Author: Kurtén, Björn
Country: California
Language: English
Year Published: 1980
No. of pages: 255
Illustrations: 1 Color Illustrations. 2 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 5 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 520202775
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 2284
Price: $24.95
Björn Kurten, a Swedish-speaking Finn who is an unquestioned giant of paleontology, proves with this exciting, lyrical and often moving novel that there is nothing paradoxical about a scientist’s creating first-rate fiction. The story is set in Scandinavia, as the Cro-Magnon peoples enter Neandertal territory during a thaw in the great Ice Age. Kurtain’s story-telling skills entwine with his scientific knowledge as we are drawn into a guessing game about who would survive the other and why. The greatest appeal of Kurten’s novel arises from his proper treatment of both Neandertal and Cro-Magnon as people of fully human intelligence and feeling.
Lagerlöf, Selma: GIRL FROM THE MARSH CROFT.
Author: Lagerlöf, Selma
Country: Iowa
Language: English
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 163
Illustrations: 2 Color Illustrations. 1 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 1572160144
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 2158
Price: $16.50
The author is one of Sweden’s best-loved storytellers and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is a collection of short stories, each guided by an ideal of poetic justice, whether darkly supernatural or romantically uplifting. They also reflect a country ethos, favoring the woods and streams and hills and the small-town ways of her youth.