Authors:Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim,  Willia
Publisher: New Directio
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, night, journey
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-05-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0811216543
ISBN-13: 9780811216548

When it was published in 1932, this then-shocking and revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France’s--and literature’s--most important 20th-Century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of pros

Author: Dylan Thoma
Publisher: New Directio
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, stories, collected
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1986-10-17
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0811209989
ISBN-13: 9780811209984

Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.

Authors:Roberto Bolaño,  Chris Andrew,
Publisher: New Directio
Keywords: americas, literature, nazi
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-02-17
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0811217051
ISBN-13: 9780811217057

Amazon Significant Seven, February 2008: As with the emergence of W.G. Sebald into English a decade ago, the most exciting new writer to watch is one we’re just catching up with: the late Roberto Bolaño, whose ground-breaking fiction defined a generation of Spanish-speaking literature. In between last year’s thrillingly meandering epic, The Savage Detectives, and the upcoming alleged masterwork, 2666, comes a small and strange book (but no stranger than the rest), Nazi Literature in the Americas. Presented as a biographical encyclopedia of right-wing writers in North and South Ame

Authors:Roberto Bolano,  Chris Andrew,
Publisher: New Directio
Keywords: earth, evenings, last
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0811216888
ISBN-13: 9780811216883

The first story collection by Roberto Bolaño —"the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag).Roberto Bolaño’s story collection Last Evenings on Earth was acclaimed by Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolaño is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric of the particular, watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world.""The melancholy folklore of exile," as

Authors:Roberto Bolaño,  Chris Andrew,
Publisher: New Directio
Keywords: amulet
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-05-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811217469
ISBN-13: 9780811217460

A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman’s voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño’s acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University. She’s tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolaño̵

Authors:Roberto Bolaño,  Laura Healy,
Publisher: New Directio
Keywords: dogs, romantic
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0811218015
ISBN-13: 9780811218016

Listed as a "2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten" book by the American Booksellers Association: Roberto Bolaño as he saw himself, in his own first calling as a poet. Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in forms and length, have appeared in magazines such as Harper’s, Threepenny Review, The Believer, Boston Review, Soft Targets, Tin

Author: Forrest Gander
Publisher: New Directio
Keywords: novel, friend
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-09-17
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0811217450
ISBN-13: 9780811217453

An unforgettable, sensual novel by "one of the most gifted and accomplished poets of his generation" (Mark Rudman). "Heroism is a secondary virtue," Albert Camus noted, "but friendship is primary." In his gem-like first novel, Forrest Gander writes of friendship, envy, and eros as a harmonic of charged overtones. Set in a rural southern landscape as vivid as its indelible characters, As a Friend tells the story of Les, a gifted man and land surveyor, whose impact on those around him (his friend Clay, his girlfriend Sarah) provokes intense self-examination and an atmosphere of dangerous erotici