Jon Fosse

Damion Searls

A visionary masterpiece from “the new Ibsen.”

Aliss at the Fire (Norwegian Literature Series)

Henry David Thoreau

The largest one-volume edition of the American thinker's journals ever published captures the scope, rhythms, and variety of the work as a whole, exploring the source from which Thoreau drew his timeless books and essays. Original.

The Journal, 1837-1861

"In this first-ever biography of Rorschach, Damion Searls draws on unpublished letters and diaries and a cache of previously unknown interviews with Rorschach's family, friends, and colleagues to tell the unlikely story of the [inkblot] test's creation, its controversial reinvention, and its ... endurance--and what it all reveals about the power of perception"--

Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

The Inkblots

Victoria Kielland

A Novel

My Men

Franz Xaver Kappus

Rainer Maria Rilke

“The ultimate expression of intergenerational literary wisdom.” —Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke’s ten classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself.For nearly a century, eager writers and young poets, as well as those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars have long assumed that the letters from the young poet were forever lost to posterity. Yet, shockingly, these letters were recently uncovered in Germany, and now the acclaimed translator Damion Searls has not only cast a fresh eye on Rilke’s original letters but also those of the “young poet,” Franz Xaver Kappus, an Austrian military cadet and an aspiring poet. This timeless edition, in addition to presenting their dialogue together for the first time in English, provides a new window into the workings of Rilke’s visionary poetic and philosophical mind, allowing us to reexperience the literary genius of one of the most inspiring works of twentieth-century literature.

Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''

Shining

Thomas Mann

New Selected Stories

Septology

"Nearly a century after the publication of Rilke's inspirational work, the missing letters of the young poet himself finally appear in this canonical edition. For more than ninety years, eager writers and young poets, even those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars assumed that the letters from young poet were forever lost to posterity. Yet, shockingly, the letters were recently discovered by Erich Unglaub, a Rilke scholar, and published in German in 2019. The acclaimed translator Damion Searls has now not only retranslated Rilke's original letters but also translated the letters by Franz Xaver Kappus, an Austrian military cadet and, yes, aspiring poet. This timeless edition, in addition to joining the two sets of letters together for the first time in English, provides a new window into the workings of Rilke's visionary poetic and philosophical mind, allowing us to reexperience the literary genius of one of the most inspiring works of twentieth-century literature"--

With the Letters from the Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet

Volker Michels

Hermann Hesse

An Anthology of Writings and Paintings

Trees

Paul Reitter

Felix Salten

Bambi

Hans Keilson

Comedy in a Minor Key

Elfriede Jelinek

Her Not All Her is a play about, from, and to the great Swiss writer Robert Walser, by the great Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It highlights what Jelinek calls 'the fundamental fragmentation' of Walser's voice, revealing Walser as 'one of those people who, when they said “I”, did not mean themselves'. Presented here in a prize-winning translation by Damion Searls, it shows Jelinek to be an impassioned virtuoso reader of classic European writers. The cahier contains an essay by the Director of the Robert Walser Centre, Reto Sorg, and thirteen paintings by the British artist Thomas Newbolt.

Her Not All Her

Dubravka Ugrešić

The pieces collected in Lend Me Your Character - the novella "Steffie Cvek in the Jaws of Life" and a collection of short stories entitled "Life Is a Fairy Tale" - solidify Dubravka Ugresic's reputation as one of Eastern Europe's most playful and inventive writers. From the story of Steffie Cvek, a harassed and vulnerable typist whose life is shaped entirely by cliches as she searches relentlessly for an elusive romantic love in a narrative punctuated by threadbare advice from women's magazines and constructed like a sewing pattern, to "The Kharms Case," detailing the strained relationship between a persistent translator and an unresponsive publisher, the pieces in this collection are always smart and endlessly entertaining.

Lend Me Your Character

Aliss at the Fire

Hermann Rorschach pszichiáter az I. világháború alatt egy eldugott svájci elmegyógyintézetben kidolgozta tíz tintafoltból álló képsorozatát, amely az emberi elme kifürkészésére alkalmas kísérletének alapja lett. Miközben a futurizmustól a dadaizmusig magába szívta a korszak számos művészeti irányzatát, Rorschach éveken át tusázott Freud és Jung elméleteivel. Művészemberként szilárd meggyőződésévé vált, hogy valódi kilétünkről – Freud elképzeléseivel ellentétben – nem szavakkal, hanem a vizuális látásmódunkkal árulunk el a legtöbbet. Rorschach korai halála után a teszt története számos érdekes fordulatot vett. A II. világháború során az amerikai hadsereg rátette a kezét az eljárásra, így a nürnbergi perben és a vietnámi háborúban is jelentős szerephez jutott. Később felkapta a reklámipar, és klisévé tette Hollywood és a világsajtó, emellett Andy Warholtól Jay-Z-ig számos jeles művészt ihletett meg. A tintafolttesztet vádlottak, álláskeresők, elmebetegek és önmagukat jobban megismerni vágyók millióival végeztették el. A Rorschach-próba népszerűsége máig töretlen. Hermann Rorschach első valódi életrajzának megírásakor Damion Searls kiadatlan levelekből és naplókból merít, valamint a Rorschach család tagjaival, barátaival és kollégáival készített, korábban ismeretlen interjúk egész sorára támaszkodik. A teszt megalkotásának, heves vitákkal kísért újjászületésének története mellett azt is bemutatja, mit árul el mindez az észlelés rejtélyeiről.

A tintafoltteszt és az észlelés rejtélyei

Rorschach

Fictional Space from The Spectator to Hawthorne

Sono probabilmente alcuni dei dipinti più analizzati ed esaminati del xx secolo. Sono passati per le mani dei volontari che si sono arruolati nell’esercito statunitense dopo Pearl Harbor, dei nazisti processati a Norimberga e di alcuni viet cong durante la guerra del Vietnam. Hanno colpito l’immaginario di personalità quali Andy Warhol e Jay-Z. Ma da dove vengono le macchie di Rorschach, l’esame psicologico che da cento anni affascina il cinema, l’arte, la moda, la cultura pop? Con Macchie di inchiostro il Saggiatore presenta la storia di Hermann Rorschach, lo psichiatra svizzero inventore del test proiettivo che porta il suo nome. È il racconto di un’esistenza guidata da una curiosità famelica, che conduce Rorschach dall’anonima Sciaffusa – dove, diciottenne, rimane orfano di entrambi i genitori, con tre fratelli più piccoli da mantenere – alla Zurigo degli anni universitari, mecca della psicopatologia, dove lavorava anche un giovane Carl Gustav Jung; dall’incontro con le avanguardie futuriste nella Russia prerivoluzionaria fino all’elaborazione del test, nato tra i freddi corridoi di un remoto manicomio nei pressi di San Gallo.Damion Searls racconta la storia di un’idea che ha attraversato gli oceani e le guerre rivelando i segreti inconfessabili di milioni di persone e spalancando le porte dell’immaginazione a innumerevoli artisti e creativi. Searls segue il percorso delle macchie nelle loro varie reincarnazioni lungo tutto il Novecento e raccoglie con una prosa elegante e coinvolgente curiosità, aneddoti, vicende poco note o dimenticate: dai giochi da tavolo «per tutta la famiglia» basati sul test alle vetrine di negozi in «stile Rorschach», dalle animazioni simmetriche di sigle e videoclip al disegno maculare sulla maschera dell’enigmatico Rorschach, uno dei supereroi protagonisti del fumetto Watchmen. Una narrazione che si muove tra psicoanalisi e cultura di massa, tra inconscio e visione, a confermare che – come aveva intuito un secolo fa un anonimo medico svizzero animato dal desiderio di «leggere le persone» – alcune macchie, quelle che raccontano davvero chi siamo, sono impossibili da cancellare.

Storia di Hermann Rorschach e del suo test

Macchie di inchiostro

Seventeen years after the publication of the first volume of Jacques Roubaud's epic and moving "The Great Fire of London," Dalkey Archive Press is proud to publish the first English translation of The Loop, the second novel in Roubaud's Proustian series, which has in its capacity to astonish been compared to the compositions of Messiaen and the buildings of Antonio Gaudi. Devastated after the death of his young wife, Alix, the author conceives of a project that will allow him not only to continue writing, but continue living--writing a book that leads him to confront his terrible loss as well as examine the lonely world in which he now seems, more and more, to exist: that of Memory. The Loop finds Roubaud returning to his earliest recollections, as well as considering the nature of memory itself, and the process--both merciful and terrible--of forgetting. Neither memoir nor novel, by turns playful and despairing, The Loop is a masterpiece of contemporary prose.

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