The first English translation of the Cubist poet's most important collection of verse poems--a wi...

A rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas

Drawing on British Gothic fiction, German Romanticism and Dickensian humor, Jean Ray's tales mix ...

An exquisite novella following the collapse of a delicately erotic spell of lucid dreaming into n...

A never-before-translated, dreamlike epic of a willfully blind empire on the verge of collapse

In the chilling and prophetic sequel to The Philodendrist Heresy, a year has passed since Daniell...

'Take it with you to any cafe in any city, and Perec will be both your drinking partner and your ...

Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' A Dilemma remains a par...

Pierre Mac Orlan's 1920 Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer was at once a paean to the adventure ...

A blissful and baneful litany of human stupidity, from Italian fantastical absurdist Ermanno Cava...

A gothic novella offering a stepping-stone between German Romanticism and the then-nascent Expres...

With Psychology of the Rich Aunt, German author Erich Mühsam made his ironic bid for authorial im...

This series of 23 satirically scabrous short texts introduces the reader to an imaginary French s...

Zalman Shneour's inaugural novel: a story of suicide in the form of a diary

Jean de La Ville de Mirmont left behind one undisputed classic, self-published a few months befor...

'La grande vie was first published in 1979 in the sixth issue of Subjectif, edited by Gerard Gueg...

A Terrace in Rome describes the tormented life of Geoffroy Meaume, a 17th-century engraver of enc...

In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886-1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the 'Dada Mani...

Written from 1967 to 1973 over a series of early mornings in seclusion in his country home, The T...

A finely crafted epic and literary monstrosity from the seventeenth-century 'poet of the marvelou...

Mynona's other 1921 collection of grotesques is no less provocative and just as indefinable in na...

An introduction to the ancient Japanese strategy game of Go by Oulipo members Pierre Lusson, Geor...

The first translation of Leonor Fini's voluptuous and antipatriarchal gothic novel

First discovered, celebrated and published by the Surrealists at the age of 14 (they declared her...

A startlingly contemporary portrait of drug addiction in prewar Paris

First published in French in 1950 in a limited edition of 100 copies, then republished in 1953 (a...

Honoré de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jul...

District describes, in ten vignettes, the sad, sordid and sinister aspects of a section of an unn...

'I've just read Marcel Schwob's The Children's Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and rever...

In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer myst...

Life in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist ...

Challenged by his friend, poet and art critic Max Jacob, to write a novel, Pierre Reverdy produce...

Baron Munchausen returns with visions of mobile architecture and journeys to sausage moons, in th...

The prison-like edifice of a mysterious ancient townhouse and the gloom-laden landscape of Flande...

First published in French in 1893, Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of ...

A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, The Leg of Lamb brings together the arch-Surreal...

Two novellas from the inventor of perpetual motion and godfather of German science fiction. Rakkó...

When Marcel Schwob published The Book of Monelle in French in 1894, it immediately became the uno...

'A marvel of brash opinion, contemporary society, politics, and memoir.' -Bookforum

Translation of: Physiologie de l'employae.

Twelve years of Georges Perec's annual pamphlets filled with homophonic wordplay

Mademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan's take on the spy novel, written and expanded between 1932...

A frenzied German Expressionist tale of orgy as salvation in Weimar Berlin

Hitherto unavailable in English, Spells, by the Belgian dramatist Michel de Ghelderode, ranks amo...

This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zürn was written after she had already...

An English translation of Dada founder Walter Serner's first collection of outlandish short stories

Originally published in French in 1925, Whiskey Tales immediately established the reputation of t...

In English for the first time, the collection that launched Jean Ray's reputation as the Belgian ...