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The Blind Owl

by Ṣādiq Hidāyat

"A haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece details a young man's despair after …
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Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautreamont

by comte de Lautréamont

Andre Breton wrote that MALDOROR is the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential.' First published in 1869, MALDOROR is …
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The Street of Crocodiles

by Bruno Schulz

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and …
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Flesh Unlimited (Creation Classics)

 

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Crash

by J. G. Ballard

In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic …
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy

by Robert Shea

Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle …
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Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre

by Arthur Rimbaud

The classic influential poems by Rimbaud, in a bilingual en face edition featuring acclaimed translations by Louise Varése.
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