Monsieur de Phocas - Jean Lorrain Vitezslav Nezval producing some of the avant-garde's

producing some of the avant-garde's most lucid considerations of what it means to make music

The Empty Space by Marianna Sztyma / ISBN 9781592703180 / a haunting 32-page hardcover picture book from Centrala (UK)

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An intriguing visual game for children aged 2-5 to find the simple shape of a shoe in Ungerer's charming and retro illustration

Monsieur de Phocas - Jean Lorrain Vitezslav Nezval producing some of the avant-garde'sMonsieur de Phocas by Jean Lorrain, translated by Francis Amery ISBN 9781912868094 270 page paperback from Dedalus European Classics *** Monsieur de Phocas ranks with A Rebours as the summation of the French Decadent Movement. Modeled on The Portrait of Dorian Gray, it drips with evil and certainly would have unpublishable in fin de siecle England. "With Ethel's friends, grotesque, aging decadents, Phocas for the first time tastes opium. He