Saint Genet1 review Jean-Paul Sartre Pantheon, 1983 beauty takes place.. 'Grandly conceived and executed' .... 'Magnificent'.... 'Nothing less than masterly' ... critical tributes offered Sartre's Saint Genet that end as mere words. Saint Genet is an unearthly book wrought with the passion of a gospel narrative, explicit and wrenching. It is, finally, an entire act of ...             The Fall92 reviews Albert Camus Vintage, 1991 Best Book Ever Written. Period.......... + A literary classic where the main character is someone you identify with yet loath + Bleak but Beautiful + Book is good             Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine)11 reviews Andre Malraux Vintage, 1990 Man's fate + A SAGA OF THE SECOND CHINESE REVOLUTION I read the "Shanghai station" before and found this book mentioned in the appendix. This is a much better story. Tells very realistic the pre-revolutionary struggle in Shanghai, the conditions under which the local population lives. The state of Shanghai with it's international, foreign, colonial ...             The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 1 (The Family Idiot) Jean-Paul Sartre University Of Chicago Press, 1981 That Sartre's study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot , is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel, or biography, or "criticism-fiction" which is the summation of Sartre's philosophical, social, and literary thought. Sartre writes, simply, in the preface to the book: " The Family Idiot is the sequel to ...             Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology1 review Andre Breton Black Widow Press, 2006 Stream of consciousness and the pure pleasure of words Most of these poems are purely surrealistic, and some others include political and social statements or hints, the "Ode to Fourier" being the most important of these ones. Charles Fourier, a Frenchman from the XIX century, was the creator of "Utopic socialism", which viewed Socialism's mission as ...             Nausea90 reviews Jean-Paul Sartre New Directions, 2007 The poetry of obsessive uselessness + Amazing + thought provoking vignettes. + brilliant, but you must be in the right state of mind             Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility2 reviews Michel Leiris University Of Chicago Press, 1992 A confessional memoir by the lesser-known French surrealist. + Leiris had me hooked Michel Leiris-- a French ethnographer who also was affiliated with the surrealist literary movement-- penned this often morbidly self-castigating memoir in the proclaimed hope that he might confront and largely master the many deep-seated fears and obsessions that contributed to his "growth" into ...             Anabasis (A Harbinger book)2 reviews St. John Perse Harvest Books, 1970 A modern treasure! + "One Who Eats Fritters, Palm-Tree Grubs or Raspberries" The English edition of this book offers not only what is one of the most worthwhile pieces of poetry the 20th century has to offer to 21st century readers, but also a work that may serve as a standard to anyone looking to locate an example of a classic that survives the often deadly process of ...             Antigone: Methuen Student Edition (Methuen Student Editions)7 reviews Jean Anouilh Methuen Drama, 2003 It's my favorite book + Antigone by Anilouth + Antigone + A good play             The Words10 reviews Jean-Paul Sartre Vintage, 1981 Words about words + The Examined Life + Self-Creation + Wonderful account for any lover of words             No Exit and Three Other Plays48 reviews Jean-Paul Sartre Vintage, 1989 Beautiful melancholy + good enough condition + There Is No Exit + "Hell is other people"....... + Fabulous plays!             The Stranger529 reviews Albert Camus Vintage, 1989 American translation brings out stylistic subtleties + interesting + Shocking in its Simplicity + One of the best books ever written. + Oh, the absurdity!             Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)4 reviews Andre Breton University of Michigan Press, 1969 A timeless triumph of the Surrealist spirit + indispensable and of infinite importance to dreamers + Classic and Important Work "Manifestoes of Surrealism" is an extraordinary book that defines the timeless vitality of the Surrealist spirit. Speaking as a supreme oracle of Surrealist enlightenment, Breton gives us the keys to freedom from the limitations of reason, morality and aesthetic concerns. He instructs us on how ...             Selected Poems (A Calderbook, Cb435)2 reviews Paul Eluard Calder Publications, 1988 One of the absolute best surrealist poets + Selected Poems- Paul Eluard Along with a few other poets who were in the surrealist group formally but had to maintain a healthy distance from time to time in order to maintain their intellectual integrity (Rene Char, Soupault, Robert Desnos), Eluard comes extremely close to being the very best. That is to say: no matter ...             The Voices of Silence2 reviews Andre Malraux Doubleday & Company, Inc.,, 1978 A philosophy of the history of art + Epic This is a profound work. It contains six - hundred representations of artistic work that Malraux builds his commentry around. The language is philosophical and poetic and often very difficult. The work is divided into four sections. Museum Without Walls, The Metamorphoses of Appolo, the Creative ...             The Plague153 reviews Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert Vintage, 1991 "A town thrown back upon itself" + Few novels are worthy of comparison + Find meaning in a meaningless existence + Tragically relevant             Therese (Penguin Modern Classics) Francois Mauriac Penguin Classics, 2002             Selected Poems2 reviews Pierre Reverdy New Directions, 1969 bloody sublime + A precise concise poetry of being where we know we are not Dupin's poetry brings together fear and desire, death and life, oppositions which fuse together not out of juxtaposition but out of a bleeding neccesity for eachother. Death and life do not contrast in dupin, they are one. Opposing themselves within themselves, self rending and fusing ...             The Rebel (Penguin Modern Classics) Albert Camus Penguin Classics, 2000             Selected Poems1 review Philippe Jaccottet Wake Forest University Press, 1988 Excellent Verse Phillipe Jaccotet has enough of the child like inquisition in all of us and enough of an appeal to the beautiful and romantic, to off set his imaginitive language, his modern sensibilities. I am no poetry expert, but reading the very musical verse of Jaccotet is positively a joy. Of course i didn't ...