Books from Green Integer
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Metropolis Vienna: A Novel
By Peter RoseiOriginally published in 2005, Vienna Metropolis, like Heimito von Doderer's great novel The Demons before it, represents an interlinking series of individuals living in Vienna. But unlike von Doderer's work,...
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Violet Island and Other Poems
By Reina María RodríguezBorn in Havana in 1952, Reina María Rodriguez developed her poetry in a cultural climate that could be both encouraging and tense. Over the years she struggled to establish a...
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Howling at the Moon: Poems and Prose of Hagiwara Sakutarō
By Sakutarō HagiwaraBorn into a wealthy family, Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) was able as a young man to devote himself to poetry. Although he did not finish college, he read Western authors, including...
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Lieutanant Gustl: Masterworks of Fiction
By Arthur SchnitzlerWith Peter Altenberg and Hugo von Hofmansthal, Arthur Schnitzler was a major modernist of the period of Viennese intellectual activity from 1890 to 1930. Born in 1862 and trained as...
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Breathturn
By Paul CelanA GERMAN-ENGLISH BILINGUAL EDITION. Translated from the German by Pierre Joris--winner of the 2004 PEN Translation Award for Celan's Lightduress--the is the first of Celan's three major books of poetry...
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Threadsuns
By Paul Celan"One of Paul Celan's most important books of poems, Threadsuns follows the Green Integer press publication of Breathturn, which received international critical acclaim. Consisting of 105 poems, arranged in five...
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Lichtzwang
By Paul CelanLightduress was written between June and December 1967 and appeared approximately three months after the poet's suicide in 1970. 1967, the year in which he composed most of this book,...
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Gold Fools
By Gilbert SorrentinoThree teenage boys, Nort and Dick Shannon and their friend, Bud Merkel, find themselves in the middle of the forbidding Gila Desert on an adventure that will, they hope, lead...
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Last Living Words: The Ingeborg Bachmann Reader
By Ingeborg BachmannThe Last Living Words consists of works of poetry and fiction published during the life of the great Austrian writer. Brilliantly translated by Lilian Friedberg (winner of the Kayden Translation...
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Meeting at the Milestone
By Sigurd HoelIn this moving and profound novel, Sigurd Hoel explores belief and traitorism through the major character's memories of the underground during World War II in Norway. At the dark center...
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If Only the Sea Could Sleep: Love Poems
By AdūnīsOne of the greatest poets of Arab literature, Adonis's work often centers on the process of poetic creation, but his work has somehow remained highly appealing to Arab readers, and...
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Abingdon Square
By Maria Irene FornesSet in the early years of the 20th century, Abingdon Square is a brilliant exploration of the freedoms and limitations of marriage. Married at fifteen to a man who might...
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Amour Amour
By Andreas EmpeirikosIn this book of 24 stories, or "person mythologies," Greek novelist and poet Andreas Embiricos combines history, myth, poetry, and psychology to create a sensual, original and fabulous universe. His...
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Arcanum 17: With Apertures, Grafted to the End
By André BretonAndré Breton wrote Arcanum 17 during a trip to the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the Allied troops were liberating Occupied Europe. Using...
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Art Poetic'
By Olivier CadiotPoetry. Translated from the French by Cole Swensen, this many-voiced, multi-perspective poetic text could be likened to the journal of a scientist recording observable phenomena, but resisting making any conclusions...
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Ten Thousand Lives
By Ŭn KoBorn in 1933 in a small village in Korea's North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean...
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The Masses are Asses
By Pedro PietriThis hilarious play, written by noted Nuyorican playwright and poet Pedro Pietri, takes place in an empty room (or perhaps in a fancy restaurant). Its two chracters take audience and...
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My Life
By Lyn HejinianRecognized today as one of the great works of contemporary American literature, My Life is at once poetic autobiography, personal narrative, a woman's fiction, and an ongoing dialogue with the...
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The Exterminating Angel: Based on a Cinedrama
By Luis Buñuel, Luis AlcorizaAn aristocrat named Nobilé invites several society friends to his house after the opera. But even as the dinner preparations are underway, servants feel compelled to leave. Despite threats of...
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3 Masterpieces of Cuban Drama
By Luis F. González-Cruz, Ann Waggoner AkenThree great plays of Cuban theater published here for the first time.