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Skomlin Press publishes classic and contemporary literature from Poland, Switzerland, Russia, France and beyond, brought into English by translators who treat the work as their own.
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The journal of the Francoise Krasinksa begins with her as a young girl living comfortably with her parents in the court of Maleszow in southern Poland. She is happy and innocent and nurses a crush on Prince Charles pretender to the Polish throne. Beautiful and intelligent her escapades and her fate set tongues wagging in every court in Europe.
In a sequence of lyric conversations, aphorists Alex Stein and Yahia Lababidi summon the tortured, ecstatic spirits of Kafka, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Rilke and Kierkegaard. Part biography, part criticism, part incantation, it reads like a songline through the modern soul.
In 1896 the young Englishman Marmaduke Pickthall shed his expatriate world and wandered Palestine and Syria in native dress. His vivid, affectionate record finds a Near East freer and more joyous than anything he had known in Europe.
The arrival of a beautiful orphan at her uncle's lakeside inn sends a slow, dreamlike chaos rippling through a Swiss village. In Ramuz's incantatory 1927 novel, beauty itself becomes an almost elemental, disruptive force.
A generous stranger settles in a quiet mountain village, and all who deal with him prosper - all but the one fool who sees him clearly. Ramuz turns a simple fable into an apocalyptic fantasia of good, evil and rural dread.
"One sings here of the soul of a river, and this soul never dies." Ramuz follows the Rhone from the Alps to the sea in a lyrical hymn to the river and the people who live along its banks.
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