The Play of the Eyes is the third volume in Nobel Prize winning author Elias Canetti's trilogy of memoirs. Here, Canetti describes his young adult life as he tries to make it as a writer in Vienna during the 1930s, and provides vivid accounts of the remarkable figures he meets along the way, usually in cafes, from Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, and Herman Broch, among others. "Canetti uses a dramatist's gifts here to achieve emotional depth; his mother's death, sketched simply against the backdrop of a crumbling Europe, takes on a tragic dignity." - Publishers Weekly

The son and biographer of William Saroyan, one of the most acclaimed writers in American history, Aram Saroyan grew up in a world of celebrities and geniuses. His own writings soon placed him among the best known figures in the New York School of poets, and his essays and reviews helped to characterize his generation. Starting Out in the Sixties is a powerful collection of essays, memoirs, and reflections with commentary and anecdotes about publishing, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jack Kerouac, the author's author's Armenian heritage, his famous father, William Burroughs, and much, much more. Variously humorous, reflective, and profound, Saroyan's book should prove to be both a very popular work and, for many years to come, a key guide to the taste and literary values of the generation that started out in the sixties.

The Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel is a captivating memoir that chronicles the life of a pioneering psychoanalyst. Wilhelm Stekel was a key figure in the development of psychoanalysis, and his memoir offers a unique perspective on the field and its early pioneers. The book covers Stekel's childhood, education, and professional career, including his work with Sigmund Freud and other notable psychoanalysts. Stekel also shares personal anecdotes and reflections on his own struggles with mental illness and addiction. Throughout the book, Stekel provides insights into the history of psychoanalysis and its impact on the field of psychology. This autobiography is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis or the life of Wilhelm Stekel.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

CONTRAPPASSO is an independent biannual magazine of international writing published in Sydney, Australia.Issue 2 contains Anthony May's never-before-published 65-page interview with the legendary Elmore Leonard; 'STR82ANL', a new novella by British writer Clive Sinclair (accompanied by a career-spanning interview by editor Matthew Asprey); a narrative by film writer David Thomson; fiction by Mimi Lipson and John Salazar; a memoir by Paul Pax Andrews; an essay by Peter Doyle; and poetry by Antigone Kefala, Chris Andrews, Tessa Lunney, Erin Martine Sessions, Mark Tredinnick, Daniel East, Mark O'Connor, Paolo Totaro, Chris Oakey, Elias Greig, Luke Whitington, Paolo Fabrizio Iacuzzi, and Floyd Salas.

In Beyond Imagination, 21 of Canada's most eminent writers of Jewish decent try in their various ways to make sense - if sense can be made - of the Holocaust. Together they bear witness to the most catastrophic and profoundly troubling event of our century, in essays, memoirs, short stories, and poems. With the assistance of the publisher, the contributors to this volume are donating their royalties to help establish a Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.

Much of A.M. Klein's finest prose is to be found in the mass of uncompleted work that he abandoned at the time of his breakdown, and that became accessible only when his papers were deposited in the National Archives. Notebooks offers a generous selection of this work, revealing previously unsuspected facets of Klein's character and artistry. The fiction, criticism, and memoirs collected here focus on Klein's exploration of the role of the artist. The works illuminate crucial periods of his career, especially the early 1940s, when he was transforming himself into a modernist, and the early 1950s, when he was struggling to overcome the misgivings about his art that were to lead to his final breakdown. The semi-autobiographical text which Klein referred to as 'Raw Material' and the unfinished novel of prison life entitled 'Stranger and Afraid' cast a new light on Klein's often frustrating relationship with the Montreal Jewish community. In 'Marginalia' he discusses poetic form and technique and makes observations on the nature of poetry, thereby providing insights into his own concerns as a writer. In 'The Golem,' a profoundly ambiguous treatment of the act of creation, a self-portrait emerges of a storyteller who has lost faith in the power and value of his story. The volume includes a critical introduction, that places the material in the context of Klein's other works, as well as textual and explanatory notes.

Drama. Translated from the Russian, edited and annotated by Gary Kern. Here in one volume are the theatrical works of the young Russian dramatist, prosaist and literary critic, Lev Natanovich Lunts (1901-1924). Included are five articles on the theater, three play reviews, five plays and one screenplay, plus a preface by Veniamin Kaverin and reminiscences of Lunts by Maxim Gorky, Konstantin Fedin and Yelizaveta Polonskaya. The plays are The Son of the Sheikh, Outside the Law, Bertrand de Born, The Apes Are Coming! and The City of Truth. The silent screenplay is Things in Revolt. All of these materials convey the avant- garde spirit of the post-revolutionary Russian theater, while the plays and screenplay develop the theme of individuality vs. the mass mind with remarkable verve and astonishing erudition. THINGS IN REVOLT is the first volume of three devoted to Lunts. The other two are IN THE WILDERNESS: THE PROSE OF LEV LUNTS, and JOURNEY ON A HOSPITAL BED: THE CORRESPONDENCE & MEMOIR OF LEV LUNTS. Each volume is self-contained and may be read apart from the other two, though each naturally complements the other. Most of the works in the three volumes are translated for the first time.

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The Jewish, Odesa-born poet, Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin (1911-2003), was a central figure in modern Russian literature, although until recently, he was best known in the West for his role in preserving the manuscript of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate from the KGB. As a Soviet journalist in WW2, he witnessed and wrote about the horrors of Stalingrad, which led the Nobel Laureate Josef Brodsky to refer to him as 'Russia's war poet'. Later, during the years of Stalin's deportation of ethnic groups, Lipkin translated and preserved the language and writings of Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Tatars and, in doing so, became a living repository of their culture for which he risked censure and arrest from the Soviet authorities. In this memoir, Lipkin's humanity, civic courage, and friendship with many important Russian writers - Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Andrei Platonov, and of course, Grossman himself - shine through the reports of terror and oppression that characterized this most turbulent period of Russian history.