Product Description: Fiction. Translated from the Romanian by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno. KYRA KYRALINA, upon publication early in the nineteen twenties, immediately established its author as a leading writer in the Modernist pantheon. The first volume in a series of volumes indebted to Oriental modes of storytelling, such as found in The Thousand and One Nights, KYRA KYRALINA is a book of great charm and profound insight into the human condition...read more

Presents the life of E.E. Cummings, his childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his early attempts to establish himself as a poet, his marriages, his travels, and his eventual great success and world recognition.

Product Description: Poetry. LE MOTS ANGLAIS, says Sawyer-Laucanno in his introduction, "is based on Stephane Mallarme's 1877 English grammar book Les Mots anglais, and on the exercise books (Themes anglais) he prepared for his students, probably between 1872 and 1884, while he was a teacher of English at the lycee Fontanes (Condorcet)...read more

This biography of self-exiled composer/novelist Paul Bowles explores his tormented childhod, his marriage to novelist Jane Bowles, and his acknowledged role as the spiritual father of the Beat movement and the eminence grise of the American expatriate com

Product Description: Between 1944 and 1960, a second wave of expatriate American writers took up residence in Paris, some seeking the exiting ambiance of art and the bohemian life that Paris has offered earlier generations, some escaping from racist and materialistic aspects of the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: fiction & plays, Spain, tr C Sawyer-Laucanno