Forthcoming Titles
Useless Writers
Ermanno Cavazzoni
Translated, with an introduction, by Jamie Richards
49 fables composing a gallery of writers who contribute absolutely nothing to society, scientifically organized and categorized in accordance to the seven deadly sins and seven contingencies of life. From the scholar of eccentricity and author of Brief Lives of Idiots, Ermanno Cavazzoni.
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The Water Spider and Other Tales
Marcel Béalu
Translated, with an introduction, by Edward Gauvin
One of Béalu's most celebrated narratives, of a man and a water spider who fall in love, is accompanied by eighteen other tales of dreamy discomfort and charming immorality.
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The Drowned Land
Paul Willems
Translated, with an introduction, by Edward Gauvin
Published two years before his death, The Drowned Land was one of Paul Willems’s more pessimistic explorations of the marvelous. In his account of the land of Aquelon, liquidity evolves into myth, and a paradise sinks into horror.
The Sunset Lands
Julien Gracq
Translated, by George MacLennan with an afterword by Bernhild Boie
Julien Gracq's posthumous novel, describing a dream zone between myth and history, and a kingdom of steppes, uncultivated farmland, and hamlets in ruins that refuses to recognize that the barbarians are at its gates.
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The Last Canterbury Tales
Jean Ray
Translated, with an afterword, by Scott Nicolay
After 600 years, Geoffrey Chaucer and his fourteenth-century pilgrims overcome space and time to return to the Tabard Inn in Southwark and spin a new series of tales.
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The Song of the Crew
Pierre Mac Orlan
Translated, with an introduction, by Chris Clarke
The passive adventurer Joseph Krühl meets the active adventurer Simon Elias and the two set out on a treasure hunt in which humor erodes into horror. Mac Orlan’s 1918 novel is a dark homage to the legacy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and one of Raymond Queneau’s favorite novels.