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  | | Forgetting by Gabriel Josipovici Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2020 by Little Island Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78410-890-8, ISBN: 1-78410-890-1 " We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural shift from societies that celebrated ritual remembrance at fixed times and places, to our own Western world where the lack of such mechanisms leads to a fear of forgetting, to what Nietzsche diagnosed as an unhealthy sleeplessness that infec ..." |
 | | Moo Pak A Novel by Gabriel: Josipovici Published by Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994. ISBN-13: 978-1-85740-905-5, ISBN: 1-85740-905-1 |
 | | Cemetery in Barnes A Novel by Gabriel Josipovici Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2018 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-78410-546-4, ISBN: 1-78410-546-5 "Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019. Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2018. Gabriel Josipovici’s The Cemetery in Barnes is a short, intense novel that opens in elegiac mode, advances quietly towards something dark and disturbing, before ending with an eerie calm. Its three plots, relationships and time-scales are tightly woven into a single story; three voices—as in an opera by Monteverdi—provide the soundtrack, ..." |
 | | The Mandelbaum Gate (The Collected Muriel Spark Novels) by Muriel Spark, Gabriel Josipovici, Alan Taylor Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2018 by Polygon An Imprint Of Birlinn Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-84697-432-8, ISBN: 1-84697-432-1 "An exotic and extravagant tale of abduction, espionage and pilgrimage.This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime." |
 | | The Cemetery in Barnes A Novel by Gabriel Josipovici 104 Pages, Published 2018 by Carcanet Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78410-547-1, ISBN: 1-78410-547-3 "He had a good collection of early music and his one indulgence was occasionally adding to it – Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus of Vienna he particularly admired, and he would often put on their superb recording of Monteverdi's Orfeo with the dazzling Jeanne Deroubaix as the Messenger: A te ne vengo, Orfeo, Messaggiera infelice, Dicaso più infelice epiù funesto: La tua bella Euridice... I come to you, Orpheus, An ill-fated bea ..." |
 | | The Teller and the Tale Essays on Literature and Culture by Gabriel Josipovici Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2016 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-78410-212-8, ISBN: 1-78410-212-1 "The Teller and the Tale, the latest book from novelist, playwright, biographer and critic, Gabriel Josipovici, contains essays which take a fresh, analytical approach to the works of literary giants including Proust, Kafka, Eliot, Beckett, Muriel Spark, and many more. Josipovici is the authoritative voice in literature, and this book is the ideal gift for any reader with a deep love of the classics." |
 | | Hamlet Fold on Fold by Gabriel Josipovici Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2016 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21832-9, ISBN: 0-300-21832-X "William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive—very like our own selves, argues Gabriel Josipovici in this stimulating and original study. Moreover, our desire to master this elusiveness, to “pluck the heart out of its mystery,” as Hamlet himself says, precisely mirrors what is going on in the ..." |
 | | Hamlet Fold on Fold by Gabriel Josipovici 293 Pages, Published 2016 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22184-8, ISBN: 0-300-22184-3 "Fold on Fold Gabriel Josipovici ... I had long been fascinated by an image in D.W. Robertson's A Preface to Chaucer from a medieval psalter from Reims, now in Cambridge. The page is divided horizontally in two; in the top portion a group of ..." |
 | | 2nd Revised edition of "Lessons of Modernism and Other Essays" by Gabriel Josipovici Hardcover, Published 2015 by Palgrave Macm ISBN-13: 978-0-333-44094-0, ISBN: 0-333-44094-3 |
 | | Hotel Andromeda by Gabriel Josipovici Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-284-8, ISBN: 1-84777-284-6 |
 | | Hotel Andromeda by Gabriel Josipovici Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2014 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-263-3, ISBN: 1-84777-263-3 "In a house in a quiet street in North London, Helena struggles with her self-appointed task of writing a book about the reclusive American artist Joseph Cornell. At the same time she dreams and thinks about her sister Alice working in an orphanage in Chechnya. She is certain that Alice despises her for living a life of comfort and privilege, far away from the horrors of war; yet she knows too that her work is more than self-indulgence. ..." |
 | | Hotel Andromeda by Gabriel Josipovici Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-544-3, ISBN: 1-84777-544-6 |
 | | Hotel Andromeda by Gabriel Josipovici 152 Pages, Published 2014 by Carcanet ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-283-1, ISBN: 1-84777-283-8 "Gabriel Josipovici's sparkling new novel charts the course of those few days, as Joseph Cornell's mysterious life and the strange boxes he constructed wage a silent struggle in Helena's mind and spirit with the imperatives of the present." |
 | | Infinity The Story of a Moment by Gabriel Josipovici Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-357-9, ISBN: 1-84777-357-5 |
 | | Infinity The Story of a Moment by Gabriel Josipovici Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-644-0, ISBN: 1-84777-644-2 |
 | | Infinity The Story of a Moment by Gabriel Josipovici Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2012 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-166-7, ISBN: 1-84777-166-1 "In the course of a single extensive interview, this novel recounts the colorful life of a wealthy, eccentric Italian composer through multiple layers of unreality. As Massimo recalls what his master, Tancredo Pavone, told him about his life, he often repeats Pavone’s outrageous opinions on everything from the current state of the world to the inner life of each musical note. Eventually, it becomes comically clear that not only does Pavo ..." |
 | | Infinity The Story of a Moment by Gabriel Josipovici 128 Pages, Published 2012 by Carcanet ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-643-3, ISBN: 1-84777-643-4 "In the course of the single extensive interview which is this book, Massimo recalls what his master told him about his colourful life and repeats Pavone's often outrageous opinions about everything from the current state of the world to the ..." |
 | | What Ever Happened to Modernism?(Reprint) by Gabriel Josipovici Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-17800-5, ISBN: 0-300-17800-X "A personal, penetrating, and polemical account of what Modernism is and how contemporary literature has failed it The quality of today’s literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing—a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile and passionate book asks why.Modernism, Josipovici suggests, is only superfici ..." |
 | | Heart's Wings & Other Stories by Gabriel Josipovici Paperback, 178 Pages, Published 2011 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-006-6, ISBN: 1-84777-006-1 "Written over a span of 40 years, this collection features the short stories of British writer Gabriel Josipovici. Unique and intriguing, the narratives take place in a variety of settingsincluding a seedy London nightclub in the 1960s, a brothel in Hamburg during World War I, and an airport in Bukovina in 1942and explore not only Shakespeare’s mind as he writes Twelfth Night, but also Jorge Borges’ dreams of Finland and the Kalevala, ..." |
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