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The Bastard Factory by Chris Kraus
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Chris Kraus' The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv. Hubert and Konstantin Solm are brothers, born in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth ce ...Show more
The Ribbon at Olympia`s Throat by Michel Leiris; Christine Pichini; Chris Kraus
54.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane. That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that ri ...Show more
Torpor by Chris Kraus
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1991, unhappily married Sylvie and her husband set off on a journey across Eastern Europe in search of a Romanian orphan to adopt. Sylvie wanted to believe that misery could simply be replaced with happiness. Time was a straight line, stretching out before you. If you could create a golden kind of ti ...Show more