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Books by Adrian Nathan West
  | | Rave by Rainald Goetz, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2020 by Fitzcarraldo Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-913097-19-6, ISBN: 1-913097-19-6 "Following on his monumental examination of `the most contrary and most political, the most radical and rich, the most unstruggling decade of decades,' the 1980s in his ruthless debut novel Insane, his analysis of RAF terrorism in Kontrolliert, and his monumental forerunner of `uncreative writing', the trilogy 1989, Buchner Prize-winner Rainald Goetz turned his critical sensibilities on 1990s pop culture in a series of five books gathere ..." |
 | | Brenner (Paperback) by Hermann Burger, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 426 Pages, Published 2022 by Archipelago Books, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-953861-30-6, ISBN: 1-953861-30-X "For the puzzle of childhood to prove credible , according to Ludwig Reiner's handbook on the epic technique , it is essential that all this not be omitted , there are even customers who place orders for discolorations of a certain sort ..." |
 | | A Father Puzzle (The MIT Press) by Sibylle Lacan, Adrian Nathan West Hardcover, 104 Pages, Published 2019 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03931-4, ISBN: 0-262-03931-1 "The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.“When I was born, my father was already no longer there.” Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and un ..." |
 | | The Weight of Things(Reprint) by Marianne Fritz, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2015 by Dorothy, A Publishing Project ISBN-13: 978-0-9897607-7-5, ISBN: 0-9897607-7-4 "Fiction. Women's Studies. Translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West. THE WEIGHT OF THINGS is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978 she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called "The Fortress," creating over her lifetime elaborate colorful diagrams ..." |
 | | Like Flies from Afar A Novel by K. Ferrari, Adrian Nathan West Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-23994-7, ISBN: 0-374-23994-0 ""This novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for that taste in your mouth you can't spit out. First words to last, it's strong stuff." ―James Sallis, author of Drive Mr. Luis Machi is an unforgettably loathsome and hilarious Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society―parasites, pushers, and secret policemen. He has ..." |
 | | Positive Nihilism My Confrontation with Heidegger (Volume 6) (Untimely Meditations (6)) by Hartmut Lange, Adrian Nathan West, Sarah Cook Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53426-0, ISBN: 0-262-53426-6 "A German writer's aphoristic, poetic, and difficult reflections on Heidegger's Being and Time.There is a beyond of reason and unreason. It is the human psyche. -- Positive NihilismLike many German intellectuals, Hartmut Lange has long grappled with Heidegger. Positive Nihilism is the result of a lifetime of reading Being and Time and offers a series of reflections that are aphoristic, poetic, and (appropriately, considering his object o ..." |
 | | The Aesthetics of Degradation by Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2016 by Repeater ISBN-13: 978-1-910924-18-1, ISBN: 1-910924-18-0 "Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities and outrage.But what are the moral and psychological consequences of the mercantilization of abuse?In this studied and ruthless examination of ..." |
 | | Harsh Times A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, Published 2022 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-85895-5, ISBN: 1-250-85895-X "In this thrilling novel, Mario Vargas Llosa fuses reality with two fictions: that of the narrator, who freely re-creates characters and situations, and the one designed by those who would control the politics and the economy of a continent ..." |
 | | Insane by Rainald Goetz, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2018 by Fitzcarraldo Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-910695-31-9, ISBN: 1-910695-31-9 "Insane, Rainald Goetz’s first novel, and the first to be translated into English, draws upon Goetz’s clinical psychiatric experience to paint a portrait of the asylum as a total institution, to use Erving Goffman’s celebrated term. It follows the protagonist, Doctor Raspe, a reference to Jan-Carl Raspe, one of the conspirators in the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, through three long chapters. The first, ‘Disengagement’, consists of loos ..." |
 | | Milena, or The Most Beautiful Femur in the World by Jorge Zepeda Patterson, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2017 by Restless Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-125-6, ISBN: 1-63206-125-2 "Winner of the Premio Planeta—the Spanish-speaking world’s richest literary prize “The spirit of Stieg Larsson visits Mexico City" (Kirkus): Milena, or The Most Beautiful Femur in the World is a pulse-pounding international political thriller about sex, power, and information—and the extreme lengths people go to get them.When Milena’s lover and protector, the chief of Mexico’s most important newspaper, dies in her arms, she knows it’s on ..." |
 | | Like Flies from Afar (Paperback or Softback) by K. Ferrari, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, Published 2021 by Picador Usa, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-250-78584-8, ISBN: 1-250-78584-7 |
 | | Stars in His Eyes by Martí Gironell, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Amazon Crossing ISBN-13: 978-1-5420-4063-1, ISBN: 1-5420-4063-9 "From the fascist Franco regime to Hollywood’s glamour—an epic historical novel based on the meteoric rise of one of the world’s most celebrated restaurateurs.Ceferino Carrión is desperate for a new life—one of opportunity, fortune, and fame. But he knows he’ll never find this life in war-torn Spain. With his home country under the heel of the devastating Franco dictatorship and call-up papers on his doorstep, Cefe knows there’s only one ..." |
 | | The Catalan Poems by Pere Gimferrer, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2019 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-78410-767-3, ISBN: 1-78410-767-0 "Spain’s greatest living poet, Pere Gimferrer (b.1945) has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. His earliest writings appeared in Spanish. In 1970 he began publishing in Catalan, and has alternated between the two languages since (with occasional forays into French and Italian). The present collection, the first book-length publication of Gimferrer’s Catalan poetry in English, brings together work ..." |
 | | Good Entertainment A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative (Untimely Meditations (18)) by Byung-Chul Han, Adrian Nathan West, Byungand#8211, Adrian Nathen West Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2019 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53750-6, ISBN: 0-262-53750-8 "A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety―infotainment, edutainment, servotainment―and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of entertainment―its contemporary ubiquity, and its philosophical genealogy. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation: inf ..." |
 | | Law as Refuge of Anarchy Societies without Hegemony or State (Untimely Meditations (15)) by Hermann Amborn, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2019 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53658-5, ISBN: 0-262-53658-7 "A study of communities in the Horn of Africa where reciprocity is a dominant social principle, offering a concrete countermodel to the hierarchical state.Over the course of history, people have developed many varieties of communal life; the state, with its hierarchical structure, is only one of the possibilities for society. In this book, leading anthropologist Hermann Amborn identifies a countermodel to the state, describing communitie ..." |
 | | Charles Bovary, Country Doctor Portrait of a Simple Man (New York Review Books Classics) by Jean Amery, Adrian Nathan West, Nate West Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2018 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-250-1, ISBN: 1-68137-250-9 "Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love. Jean Améry undertakes one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature: a novel-essay devoted to salvaging the poor bungler Charles Bovary from the depredations of his creator, Gustave Flaubert. As a once ..." |
 | | The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz, Verso Books, Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2017 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-296-8, ISBN: 1-78663-296-9 "Fiction. Women's Studies. Translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West. THE WEIGHT OF THINGS is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel—awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978—she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called "The Fortress," creating over her lifetime elaborate colorful diagrams ..." |
 | | The Aesthetics of Degradation by Adrian Nathan West 288 Pages, Published 2016 by Watkins Media Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-910924-19-8, ISBN: 1-910924-19-9 "... in the restaurant Ànima, in the Carrer dels Angels, in the vicinity of the museum , not far from the Gran Teatre del Liceu, ... in the arthistorical researches of the Second Vienna School, the stylistics of Leo Spitzer, Vladimir Jankélévitch's moral ..." |
 | | The Aesthetics of Degradation (Large Print 16pt) by Adrian Nathan West Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 2016 by Readhowyouwant.Com Ltd Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-5252-3448-4, ISBN: 1-5252-3448-X "Collapsing distinctions beween novel, memoir and essay, it transcends cliches about free expression and the demands of the market to ask: What are the moral and psychological consequences of the mercantilization of abuse?" |
 | | The Complete Memoirs(Expanded) by Neruda, Pablo, St. Martin, Hardie, West, Adrian Nathan Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2021 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53812-5, ISBN: 0-374-53812-3 |
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