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  • Hymns to Millionaires

    by Soren A. Gauger ...
    Hymns to Millionaires is Canadian native Soren A. Gauger's first collection of stories. Taking as his raw materials the treatment of the fantastic found in Borges and Kis, the misanthropic musings of Gombrowicz and Bernhard, and a literary understanding of philosophy, Gauger's stories are formally challenging yet very funny. They often deal with the chaotic fragmentation of the individual, who is ... Read more

    $15.21 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waiting for the Dog to Sleep

    by Jerzy Ficowski, Soren Gauger and Marcin Piekoszewski (Translators) ...
    Waiting for the Dog to Sleep is poet, translator, and scholar Jerzy Ficowski's only collection of prose. In these short stories and sketches Ficowski reinterprets a question posed by the writer central to him, Bruno Schulz, about the mythologization of reality. For Schulz, fiction was a way of turning the quotidian into the fantastical and eternal. Ficowski's prose seems to reinterpret this ... Read more

    $15.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paul Celan

    A Life

    by Anna Arno ...
    Translated by Soren Gauger ...
    “An act of devotion without monument-making...Arno’s achievement is to return Celan to mortal scale: ardent in friendship, hungry for recognition, capable of wounded tenderness.”—Benjamin Balint, The Wall Street JournalA luminous, groundbreaking biography of one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, best known for the poem “Deathfugue.”Paul Celan (1920–1970) was ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • I Burn Paris

    by Bruno Jasienski, Soren Gauger (translator), Marcin Piekoszewski (translator) ...
    I Burn Paris has remained one of Poland's most uncomfortable masterstrokes of literature since its initial and controversial serialization by Henri Barbusse in 1928 in L'Humanité (for which Jasieński was deported for disseminating subversive literature). It tells the story of a disgruntled factory worker who, finding himself on the streets, takes the opportunity to poison Paris's water supply. ... Read more

    $15.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Towers of Stone

    The Battle of Wills in Chechnya

    by Wojciech Jagielski ...
    Translated by Soren A. Gauger ...
    In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a handful of desperate warriors against a powerful and much more numerous army. Jagielski's narrative is told through the lens of two men: Shamil Basaev, a hero to some, a dangerous warlord to others; and Aslan Maskhadov, a calculating ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Literariness

    Models, gradations, experiments

    Translated by Soren Gauger ...
    by Edward Balcerzan ...
    Series Book 1 - Studies in Modern Polish Literature and Culture
    The deepest crises cannot destroy the universal model of literariness. It maintains its appeal for participants in literary communication as a «contradictory» model. This thought recurs in many epochs. Literariness involves suspending the formal or logical norms of contradiction (lex contraditionis). In everyday speech, it is not permissible for «A» to simultaneously be «not-A»; in literary ... Read more

    $114.39 CAD

  • The Late Birth of a Great Artist: Piotr Michałowski’s Sketchbook of 1832

    Translated by Soren Gauger ...
    by Jan K. Ostrowski, Elżbieta Wichrowska ...
    The book covers a very special moment in the life of Piotr Michałowski (1800–55), the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. In his early life, Michałowski built a career as a technocrat and later became head of the state-owned heavy industry. At the time, he proved himself a brilliant amateur salon painter. During the anti-Russian uprising of 1830–31, he was responsible for producing ... Read more

    $68.59 CAD

  • The Late Birth of a Great Artist: Piotr Michałowski’s Sketchbook of 1832

    Translated by Soren Gauger ...
    by Jan K. Ostrowski, Elzbieta Wichrowska ...
    The book covers a very special moment in the life of Piotr Michałowski (1800–55), the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. In his early life, Michałowski built a career as a technocrat and later became head of the state-owned heavy industry. At the time, he proved himself a brilliant amateur salon painter. During the anti-Russian uprising of 1830–31, he was responsible for producing ... Read more

    $62.69 CAD

  • Narcotics

    Nicotine, Alcohol, Cocaine, Peyote, Morphine, Ether + Appendices

    by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Soren Gauger (Translator) ...
    In the vein of the well-known drug writings of De Quincey and Baudelaire from a century earlier and those of his contemporaries Walter Benjamin and Jean Cocteau – and foreshadowing the later writings of Aldous Huxley and Carlos Castaneda on psychoactive drugs – Witkacy composed Narcotics in 1930 to discuss and document not only his own experimentation with different substances but the nature of ... Read more

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  • The Legs of Izolda Morgan

    Selected Writings

    by Bruno Jasienski, Soren Gauger (Translator), Guy Torr (Translator) ...
    Considered the enfant terrible of the Polish avant-garde, lauded by critics and scorned by the public, Bruno Jasieński suddenly declared the end of Futurism in Poland soon after his short “novel” The Legs of Izolda Morgan appeared in 1923. An extraordinary example of Futurist prose, this fantastic tale cautions against the machine supplanting the human while the human body is disaggregated into ... Read more

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  • Family, Taboo and Communism in Poland, 1956-1989

    Translated by Soren Gauger ...
    by Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Jan Burzyński, Jarosław Fazan ...
    Series Book 36 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    The book answers fundamental questions about the processes of social negotiation of mentality shifts in communist Poland. Taking divorce, single motherhood, domestic violence and abortion as examples, it analyzes the level of acceptance toward tabus grounded in tradition, and the course of negotiating new meanings and using social exclusion when dealing with new phenomena. The author uses not only ... Read more

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