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Dreams of Rivers and Seas

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Dreams of Rivers and Seas

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Translating Style: A Literary Approach to Translation, a Translation Approach to Literature

Tim Parks

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Talking About It

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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, And Art In Fifteenth-century Florence

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Judge Savage

Tim Parks

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003, Softcover - 2003, Hardcover - 2003

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A Season With Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character and Goals!

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Destino

Tim Parks

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Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie

Tim Parks

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2001

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A Season With Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and Goals

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Literature and the Gods

Tim Parks; Roberto Calasso

...LITERATURE AND THE GODS traces the return of pagan divinities to Western literature from their first reappearance at the beginning of the modern era to their place in the literature of our own time.

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Destiny

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2000, 2000, 1999

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Translating Style: The English Modernists and Their Italian Translations

Tim Parks

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1997

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Adultery and Other Diversions

Tim Parks

Brilliant, probing, and provocative reflections from the author of the bestselling "Italian Neighbors" and "An Italian Education".

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000

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Europa

Tim Parks; Tim Oarks

At the midpoint of his life, Jerry Marlow finds himself on a bus from Milan to Strasbourg, taking stock of the wreckage strewn behind him -- a failed marriage, a daughter going astray, and an affair that has left him both numb and licking every wound, self-inflicted or otherwise. Even his teaching job is in peril. And what lies around the next bend? There are times when the most appalling premonitions seem all too plausible, yet the pull of hope cannot be resisted. Fueled by Marlow's scalpel-sharp commentary, Europa bristles with ferocious wordplay and a vision of the sexes as honest as it is incorrect.

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Other editions: 1997

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Ka

Tim Parks; Roberto Calasso

With the same startling originality and brilliance that made his Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony a literary landmark, Roberto Calasso narrates the birth of one of the worlds great cultures: the formation of the mind of India. He doesnt explain or describe this mental world--he regenerates it through its epic cyclical stories and customs, until we no longer need to define it for ourselves because we have come to know what it is.So: Who is Ka? And who is the immense eagle asking the question, filling the sky, elephant and giant turtle dwarfed in his claws? How can he be the child of a woman? Who are the tiny folk he eats? The first impact of Ka is one of tremendous strangeness, bewilderment, disorientation. How can a Western tradition which demands to identify a beginning and an end understand one that sees no beginning and no end, but only an eternal tangle? Slowly, though, the strange becomes familiar, as new and ever more fantastic stories are spun out, gods emerge, bizarre sacrifices are performed. Why must the kings wife copulate with a dead horse? How is man reduced to an eye in an ant's nest? Why must the road to higher consciousness pass through an erotic adventure? Why is the first girl the dawn and the second the dusk? Rejecting our cravings to have the culture systematized and predigested for us, Calasso invites us to understand India on Indian terms, through Indian images, through India itself.As Ka unfolds, the worlds of the Devas, of ýSiva, Brahm-a and Visnu, of the wars of the Mah-abh-arata, are splendidly revealed, until finally, with the advent of the Buddha, we are amazed at our own sense of recognition, for these stories seem to confirm, or to articulate for the first time, our own deepest perceptions about our human condition. An entirely unique reading experience from an author at once supremely erudite and unceasingly creative.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1999

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Last Vanities

Tim Parks; Fleur Jaeggy

Now Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, all as terse and spare as if etched with a steel tip. A brooding atmosphere of horror, a disturbing and subversive propensity for delirium haunts the violent gestures and chilly irony of these tales. Full of menace, the air they breathe is stirred only by the Fohn, the warm west wind of the Alps that inclines otherwise respectable citizens to vent the spleen and angst of life's last vanities.
Winner of the Bagutta and Boccaccio Europa Prizes, Fleur Jaeggy is a master stylist: her work, as The New Yorker remarked, is "small-scale, intense, and impeccably focused." Her eerie style is perfectly caught by Tim Parks: his translation again "has the spare, haunting quality of a prose poem" (The London Times Literary Supplement).

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Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories

Tim Parks; Italo Calvino

For the first time in paperback--a volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" from one of the great fantasists of the 20th century, displaying the full breadth of his vision and wit. Written between 1943 and 1984 and masterfully translated by Tim Parks, the fictions in Numbers in the Dark display all of Calvino's dazzling gifts: whimsy and horror, exuberance of style, and a cheerful grasp of the absurdities of the human condition.

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An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona

Tim Parks

From the gifted author of Tongues of Flame and Shear comes the much-awaited sequel to his nonfiction bestseller Italian Neighbors. Parks focuses this time on his children, born and bred in Italy, and on the other children in the village near Verona where he lives to create a fascinating portrait of Italian family life.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1995

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Shear

Tim Parks

In the hallucinatory light and heat of a Mediterranean island, a geologist arrives to inspect a granite quarry where a worker has been killed in suspicious circumstances. Conflicting messages and complex motivations abound until, from the dust and roar of the stone mill, the jagged contours of a harrowing conspiracy emerge.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1994

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Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories

Tim Parks; Italo Calvino; Random House Pantheon Books Inc

This collection of diabolically brilliant stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" confirms Calvino's stature as one of the essential writers of the 20th century. Written between 1943 and 1984, these several dozen short stories range over a panoply of concerns--politics, the nature of power, the quest for the truth, and the elusive possiblity of human connection.

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Juggling the Stars

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1993

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Italian Neighbors Or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona

Tim Parks

"One of the most delightful travelogues imaginable...So vivid, so packed with delectable details, that it serves...as a more than decent substitute for the real thing."LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEWTim Parks and his wife, Rita, came to their flat on the aging, eccentric Via Colombare in Montecchio twelve years ago for a short stay. There was trouble from the moment they moved in--under cover of night--and it has gone delightfully up and down hill ever since. In this amusing and loving tribute to the glorious country he has embraced, British novelist Tim Parks shares his secrets of survival, tales of the unexpected, and treasured friendships with new-found friends and Italian neighbors.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

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Juggling the Stars/a Novel of Menace

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Goodness

Tim Parks

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1991