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Hamlet: Fold on Fold

Product Description: William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive—very like our own selves, argues Gabriel Josipovici in this stimulating and original study...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9780300218329 | Yale Univ Pr, April 26, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture.

Hotel Andromeda

Product Description: In a house in a quiet street in North London, Helena struggles with her self-appointed task of writing a book about the reclusive American artist Joseph Cornell. At the same time she dreams and thinks about her sister Alice working in an orphanage in Chechnya...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9781847772633 | Carcanet Pr, June 1, 2014, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In a house in a quiet street in North London, Helena struggles with her self-appointed task of writing a book about the reclusive American artist Joseph Cornell.

Infinity: The Story of a Moment

Product Description: In the course of a single extensive interview, this novel recounts the colorful life of a wealthy, eccentric Italian composer through multiple layers of unreality. As Massimo recalls what his master, Tancredo Pavone, told him about his life, he often repeats Pavoneâs outrageous opinions on everything from the current state of the world to the inner life of each musical note...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9781847771667 | Carcanet Pr, June 1, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the course of a single extensive interview, this novel recounts the colorful life of a wealthy, eccentric Italian composer through multiple layers of unreality.

What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Product Description: The quality of todayâs literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointingâa poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9780300178005 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, October 25, 2011), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The quality of todayâs literary writing arouses the strongest opinions.

Heart's Wings: And Other Stories

Product Description: Written over a span of 40 years, this collection features the short stories of British writer Gabriel Josipovici. Unique and intriguing, the narratives take place in a variety of settingsÂincluding a seedy London nightclub in the 1960s, a brothel in Hamburg during World War I, and an airport in Bukovina in 1942Âand explore not only Shakespeareâs mind as he writes Twelfth Night, but also Jorge Borgesâ dreams of Finland and the Kalevala, a 19th-century work of epic poetry...read more

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9781847770066, titled "Heart's Wings: & Other Stories" | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 2011, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Written over a span of 40 years, this collection features the short stories of British writer Gabriel Josipovici.

The Remembered Present: Andrzej Jackowski

Product Description: As one of the leading figurative painters of his generation, the work of Andrzej Jackowski is mostly autobiographical, based on his early childhood memories, recollections of a family history in Poland and the feelings of alienation and enclosure that these experiences roused...read more

By Timothy Hyman, Andrzej Jackowski, Gabriel Josipovici and Michael Tucker

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9781906155889 | Black Dog Pub Ltd, December 15, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: As one of the leading figurative painters of his generation, the work of Andrzej Jackowski is mostly autobiographical, based on his early childhood memories, recollections of a family history in Poland and the feelings of alienation and enclosure that these experiences roused.

A Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf

Product Description: Stephen Medcalf (1937-2006) was an essayist, in the best traditional sense of that calling: a writer not of books but of substantial and justly celebrated essays, widely read in the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. Medcalf's abiding question to the world was the Psalmist's: 'What is man that thou art mindful of him?' His was a Blakean sense of Englishness, far from the chocolate-box painting or the television adaptation, and for him the strongest writers were those keenly aware of their roots in the classical, Anglo-Saxon or Celtic past...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici (editor)

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9781906540371, titled "The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf" | Legenda, June 18, 2010, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Stephen Medcalf (1937-2006) was an essayist, in the best traditional sense of that calling: a writer not of books but of substantial and justly celebrated essays, widely read in the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere.

After & Making Mistakes: Two Novels

Product Description: Two wildly different and wonderfully crafted novels comprise this short collection. In the first story, a young woman returning from the United States must face a maelstrom of imagination, guilt, memory, and desire. Amidst the frenzy of uncertainty that constitutes this brief novel, which is at once cold and hot, ironic and romantic, the heroine relives a nightmare from years ago...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9781847770035 | Carcanet Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Two wildly different and wonderfully crafted novels comprise this short collection.

Goldberg Variations

A collection of thirty interconnected stories, inspired by Bach's Goldberg Variations, is narrated by an English Jewish writer reading to an eighteenth-century country gentleman and offers a philosophical reflection on such topics as madness, marital discord, a poetic competition at the court of George III, incest, and more. Original. 25,000 first printing.

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9780060897239, titled "Goldberg: Variations" | Perennial, March 1, 2007, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A collection of thirty interconnected stories, inspired by Bach's Goldberg Variations, is narrated by an English Jewish writer reading to an eighteenth-century country gentleman and offers a philosophical reflection on such topics as madness, marital discord, a poetic competition at the court of George III, incest, and more.

9781857545975 | Carcanet Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Taking his cue from an anecdote connected with Bach's late masterpiece, the Goldbery Variations, this indefinable book is a collection of 30 individual stories which, when read together, turns into an intriguing and mysterious novel.

Everything Passes

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9781857548501 | Carcanet Pr, October 28, 2006, cover price $17.95

The Singer on the Shore: Essays 1991-2004

Product Description: Two central themes run through this new collection of authoritative and undogmatic essays: the Jewish experience and that of the work of art as a toy to be used for dreaming and playing rather than as a window to the world. The collection includes three essays on the Bible, as well as pieces devoted to Twelfth Night, Rembrandt's self-portraits, Tristram Shandy, Kafka's stories and aphorisms, Borges, Kierkegaard, and painter Andrez Jackowski...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9781857548440 | Carcanet Pr, May 28, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Two central themes run through this new collection of authoritative and undogmatic essays: the Jewish experience and that of the work of art as a toy to be used for dreaming and playing rather than as a window to the world.

Confianza O Sospecha

Product Description: AdemÃ¡s de ser especialista en la transiciÃ³n de la Edad Media al Renacimiento, Gabriel Josipovici es experto en la perspectiva literaria de la Biblia. En Confianza o sospecha, el autor de El libro de Dios plantea si es posible crear arte con total libertad y producir obras que trasciendan lo comercial...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9789681665166 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, June 28, 2002, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: AdemÃ¡s de ser especialista en la transiciÃ³n de la Edad Media al Renacimiento, Gabriel Josipovici es experto en la perspectiva literaria de la Biblia.

On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion

Product Description: Is it possible to create art freely today and yet produce works that are more than merely decorative or commercial? asks Gabriel Josipovici in this wide-ranging book. The suspicion that art is both frivolous and deceptive has a relatively short history, he explains, and he turns to works created in "cultures of trust"-Homer, the Hebrew Bible, Dante, and Shakespeare-in order to understand Romantic suspicion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780300079913 | Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Is it possible to create art freely today and yet produce works that are more than merely decorative or commercial?

Contre Jour: A Triptych After Pierre Bonnard

Product Description: A novel based on the life of painter, Pierre Bonnard.

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9780856356414 | Carcanet Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Both Bonnard's wife and daughter feel shut out of his world, the painting which gives his life meaning

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9781857544107, titled "Contre-Jour: A Triptych After Pierre Bonnard" | Carcanet Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A novel based on the life of painter, Pierre Bonnard.

9780856356810 | Carcanet Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $8.50 | About this edition: Both Bonnard's wife and daughter feel shut out of his world, the painting which gives his life meaning

Now

Product Description: Written entirely in dialogue, this novel is about families, parents and children, partners and lovers. The incidents are commonplace: going to work, the weekend, the afternoon of furtive sex, the art exhibition. The novel is about now, where urban people are today, and where they might go...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9781857543674 | Carcanet Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Written entirely in dialogue, this novel is about families, parents and children, partners and lovers.

Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable

Mysteriously imprisoned, Molloy disappears while looking for his mother; a dying man looks back on his life; and, a nameless individual ponders his existence (view table of contents)

By Samuel Beckett and Gabriel Josipovici (introduced by)

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9780375400704 | Everymans Library, September 1, 1997, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Mysteriously imprisoned, Molloy disappears while looking for his mother; a dying man looks back on his life; and, a nameless individual ponders his existence

Touch

Product Description: Asking how it is possible to feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our wishes, this text draws on books, films and cultural history to argue that we can feel comfortable in the world and in relationships with others only if we value touch over sight...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9780300066906 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Asking how it is possible to feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our wishes, this text draws on books, films and cultural history to argue that we can feel comfortable in the world and in relationships with others only if we value touch over sight.

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9780300181067 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: In this brilliant book, a preeminent literary thinker muses over the central question of how we can feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our wishes.

Moo Pak

Jack Toledano, a Jew from Egypt and ex-University lecturer in English, is writing the history of Moor Park, of himself and his times, of the Jews and the English. He tells his friend about it on walks through the parks and waterways of London during the 1980s.

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9781857542875 | New edition (Carcanet Pr, September 26, 1996), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Jack Toledano, a Jew from Egypt and ex-University lecturer in English, is writing the history of Moor Park, of himself and his times, of the Jews and the English.

In a Hotel Garden

Product Description: "In a Hotel Garden" is the strangest and most enigmatic of Gabriel Josipovici's many strange, enigmatic novels. On the surface it is a simple story of the growing obsession young Englishman with a Jewish woman he meets on holiday...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9780811212915 | New Directions, May 1, 1995, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: "In a Hotel Garden" is the strangest and most enigmatic of Gabriel Josipovici's many strange, enigmatic novels.

9780856359989 | Carcanet Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "In a Hotel Garden" is the strangest and most enigmatic of Gabriel Josipovici's many strange, enigmatic novels.

Moo Pak: A Novel

Product Description: Jack Tolenado, a Sephardic Jew from Egypt and ex-University lecturer in English is writing a history of Moor Park which is also a history of himself and his times, of the Jews and the English. The themes in this book have preoccupied the author for the past 25 years.

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9781857540901 | Carcanet Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $28.30 | About this edition: Jack Tolenado, a Sephardic Jew from Egypt and ex-University lecturer in English is writing a history of Moor Park which is also a history of himself and his times, of the Jews and the English.

Collected Stories

Collects Kafka's short stories and parables, each reflecting his concern for modern man's search for identity, place, and purpose.

By Gabriel Josipovici (editor) and Franz Kafka

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9780679423034 | Everymans Library, October 1, 1993, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Collects Kafka's short stories and parables, each reflecting his concern for modern man's search for identity, place, and purpose.

Text and Voice: Essays 1981-1991

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9780312083816 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 1, 1992, cover price $45.00

Steps: Selected Fiction and Drama

Product Description: some light shelf wear and fore edge soiling, else a very good copy.

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9780856358739 | Carcanet Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: some light shelf wear and fore edge soiling, else a very good copy.

The Big Glass

Product Description: A novel set in the world of modern art, loosely based on the life of the French Dadaist Marcel Duchamp. From the author of THE BOOK OF GOD.

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9780856359057 | Carcanet Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A novel set in the world of modern art, loosely based on the life of the French Dadaist Marcel Duchamp.

The Book of God: A Response to the Bible

Product Description: Is the Bible one book or a collection of writings? If it is a book, does it stand as a coherent piece of literature? Building on the recently renewed interest in biblical narrative associated with Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye, and Robert Alter, Gabriel Josipovici here sets out to answer these and other equally fascinating questions...read more

By Gabriel Josipovici

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9780300043204 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Answers questions as to whether the Bible is in fact one book of a collection of writings, the type of book it is, and whether it stands as a coherent piece of literature

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9780300048650 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, August 29, 1990), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Is the Bible one book or a collection of writings?

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