Translated Michael Howard (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good+ dj. 1st U.K. edition. [minor shelfwear, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket shows just light handling wear, with a couple of tiny edge-tears]. Novel about a widowed schoolmaster in a French provincial town and his relationships with his three children, "an in particular with Bruno, the youngest, whom he rightly suspects is not his own.". Illustrated by (dj design) Michael Foreman (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Trade Paperback Edition. SUPERB: VIVID: DEFT: IMPRESSIVE: DEFINITIVE: NEW First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. 1983) Ninth Printing (2006): NEW striking color-illus. gloss-laminated card-stock cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW uncreased binding w/ tightly-bound sheets, PRISTINE interior beautifully printed in Intertype Garamond No. 3 on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.26" x 9.0" x 1.06", 0.60 kg, xxxiv+366 (400) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this SUPERB bilingual, illustrated, & National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece, the complete French text is accompanied w/ an English translation by Richard Howard: Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex love, death, the corrupting & oppressive power of the modern city & lost innocence. "Les Fleurs Du Mal" (The Flowers of Evil) remains powerful & relevant for our time. In "Spleen et idéal" Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstasy & anguish―of sexual & romantic love. "Tableaux Parisiens" condemns the crushing effects of urban planning on a city's soul & praises the city's anti-heroes including the deranged & derelict. "Le Vin" centers on the search for oblivion in drink & drugs; & the many kinds of love that lie outside traditional morality is the focus of "Fleurs du Mal" while rebellion is at the heart of "Révolte". The voice of Baudelaire lives in this award-winning edition that includes monotypes by artist, Michael Mazur. HIGHEST PRAISE: "Howard's achievement is such that we can be confident that this 'Fleurs du Mal' will long stand as definitive, a superb guide to France's greatest poet." -The Nation "Readers of English do not have to take Baudelaire on faith any longer. For the first time he is present among us, vivid & surprisingly intact, in these fine translations." -NYTBR "A deft & patient new translation of "Les Fleurs du Mal" . Howard . has done what he has set out to, has given us, in English & in verse, a Baudelaire both immediately recognizable & impressively varied. It s a considerable achievement. -NYRB * ABOUT THE POET: CHARLES BAUDELAIRE was a French poet whose work explored taboo areas of sensuality & sexuality. His highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, & Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. He is credited w/ coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis (such as mid-19th century Paris), & the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. * ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: RICHARD HOWARD was one of the most prolific & respected 20th-century literary critics & translators. He won a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN Translation Prize, a National Book Award (for Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)), a Literary Award from the Academy of Arts & Letters, a MacArthur Fellowship, the title of Chevalier from France's L'Ordre National du Merite, & the position of Poet Laureate of New York. * ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: MICHAEL MAZUR was an American artist who artist has been credited with reinvigorated the art of the monotype. * SHIPPING: Mnemosyne wraps & custom-packages this fine book w/ our greatest care for prompt shipment without charge within the United States via USPS MEDIA MAIL & for shipment to international destinations at our posted rates (at or below actual cost) via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL. Illustrated with 9 original monotypes by Michael Mazur (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing Large octavo hardback. Red cloth xiv + 414 pp, Very Good condition. No inscriptions. No dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Trade Paperback Edition. SUPERB: VIVID: DEFT: IMPRESSIVE: DEFINITIVE: NEW First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. 1983) Eleventh Printing (2010): NEW striking color-illus. gloss-laminated card-stock cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW uncreased binding w/ tightly-bound sheets, PRISTINE interior beautifully printed in Intertype Garamond No. 3 on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.26" x 9.0" x 1.06", 0.60 kg, xxxiv+366 (400) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this SUPERB bilingual, illustrated, & National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece, the complete French text is accompanied w/ an English translation by Richard Howard: Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex love, death, the corrupting & oppressive power of the modern city & lost innocence. "Les Fleurs Du Mal" (The Flowers of Evil) remains powerful & relevant for our time. In "Spleen et idéal" Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstasy & anguish―of sexual & romantic love. "Tableaux Parisiens" condemns the crushing effects of urban planning on a city's soul & praises the city's anti-heroes including the deranged & derelict. "Le Vin" centers on the search for oblivion in drink & drugs; & the many kinds of love that lie outside traditional morality is the focus of "Fleurs du Mal" while rebellion is at the heart of "Révolte". The voice of Baudelaire lives in this award-winning edition that includes monotypes by artist, Michael Mazur. HIGHEST PRAISE: "Howard's achievement is such that we can be confident that this 'Fleurs du Mal' will long stand as definitive, a superb guide to France's greatest poet." -The Nation "Readers of English do not have to take Baudelaire on faith any longer. For the first time he is present among us, vivid & surprisingly intact, in these fine translations." -NYTBR "A deft & patient new translation of "Les Fleurs du Mal" . Howard . has done what he has set out to, has given us, in English & in verse, a Baudelaire both immediately recognizable & impressively varied. It s a considerable achievement. -NYRB * ABOUT THE POET: CHARLES BAUDELAIRE was a French poet whose work explored taboo areas of sensuality & sexuality. His highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, & Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. He is credited w/ coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis (such as mid-19th century Paris), & the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. * ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: RICHARD HOWARD was one of the most prolific & respected 20th-century literary critics & translators. He won a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN Translation Prize, a National Book Award (for Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)), a Literary Award from the Academy of Arts & Letters, a MacArthur Fellowship, the title of Chevalier from France's L'Ordre National du Merite, & the position of Poet Laureate of New York. * ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: MICHAEL MAZUR was an American artist who artist has been credited with reinvigorated the art of the monotype. * SHIPPING: Mnemosyne wraps & custom-packages this fine book w/ our greatest care for prompt shipment without charge within the United States via USPS MEDIA MAIL & for shipment to international destinations at our posted rates (at or below actual cost) via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL. Illustrated with 9 original monotypes by Michael Mazur (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Date on title page. No additional edition or printing indicated. Fine, if not new hardback in fine, if not new unpriced, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket has a 5/8 inch closed tear to bottom of rear fore-edge fold.…

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 256p Size: 29cm Number of books: 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 462 pages. Published in 2002. Volume Three of the author's collected essays. Possibly the greatest literary collection of the mid-20th century, published in English posthumously, more than fifty years later. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and as part of Harvard University's Complete Works of Walter Benjamin. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Walter Benjamin's "Selected Writings: Volume 3: 1935-1938" in a felicitous English translation. The third - and most important - volume of the Series, a landmark publication in the history of modern thought and literary criticism. "Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie: Such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930's. Twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated. The centerpiece, 'A Berlin Childhood Around 1900', marks the very first appearance in English of one of the greatest works of the twentieth century: A profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable are the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin's most famous essay, 'The Work of Art In The Age of Its Technological Reproducibility', and 'German Men And Women', a book in which Benjamin collects twenty-six letters by distinguished Germans from 1783 to 1883, in an effort to preserve what he called the true humanity of the German tradition from the debasement of Fascism" (Publisher's blurb). "The Storyteller" and "Paris, The Capital of The Nineteenth Century", which poignantly anticipates his massive "Arcades" Project, as well as crucible-essays on Bertolt Brecht and Franz Kafka, among other major figures, written during his excruciating years in exile (France and Denmark), are also contained in this epochal volume. Individually and collectively, these pieces describe and sum up Benjamin's single most devastating insight: "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" (Walter Benjamin). Walter Benjamin's personal heroism wasn't just some egotistical idea he had about himself. He lived and then died as a hero: He committed suicide on September 26, 1940 at the French-Spanish border while trying to escape the Nazis with a group of fellow Jews. They were all arrested by the Spanish police (Franco was one of Hitler's closest allies). Moved and humbled by his desperate yet principled stand, the Spanish police, defying Franco's orders, allowed his fellow Jews to escape. An absolute "must-have" title for Walter Benjamin collectors. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online are ALL subsequent printings or have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. The greatest literary/cultural critic of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WALTER BENJAMIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0674008960. no.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. No additional date, edition or printing indicated. Near fine plus plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus plus, if not fine unpriced, unclipped dust jacket. Book has a 1.5 inch circular embossed ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.…