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Translated into English for the first time, the collected poems of Max Blecher—the lone volume of poetry published in his lifetime, Transparent Body, along with verse published in periodicals and posthumously—add important color to Blecher's body of work, most clearly displaying his early surrealist tendencies, as well as illustrating key moments in his prose works,… Read more about this item

"The sound of footsteps crunching on the gravel, just barely perceptible, woke my mother in the middle of the night. Someone was walking through the courtyard, straight towards her room. But maybe it was coming from the basement. She'd been asleep with the windows open and the shutters closed. She got up, pushed open one of the shutters and waited,… Read more about this item

"I died on the twelfth of September, at the height of happiness. Clothed in the shadow of the chestnut tree outside the house, my body preserved the posture of a living woman hours after my last breath. Whereas at first I struggled with snakes under my tongue, around my ankles and my wrists, snakes clotting the blood under the skin… Read more about this item

"My whole being, my collapse, and my agony are a white and weary anguish until death, which will overtake me soon. Moment after moment, I expect to hear beyond silence, shredded and dotted by vertiginous distance, a remote crackling." As he neared the end of his troubled life, Horacio Quiroga penned a collection of stories that straddle thresholds, the… Read more about this item