SEVEN
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UNUSUAL BOOKS OF PERMANENT VALUE
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THE KAFKA PROBLEM: an anthology of criticism about Franz Kafka.
Edited by Angel Flores, this volume contains essays on the great
Czech writer's life and work by W. H. Auden, Austin Warren, Jean
Wahl,
E.
B. Burgum, D. S. Savage, Albert Camus, T. We.iss, and
many others. Illustrated with photographs. $5.
RIMBAUD by Wallace Fowlie.
Biographical, critical, and philosophical in–
terpretations of Rimbaud's poetry, together with detailed analyses of
the great poems. "A Season in Hell," "Bateau lvre," "Memoirs," and
"Les Illuminations." $2.50.
PATERSON by William Carlos Williams.
This is the first section of the
long poem of epic proportions on which Dr. Williams has been work–
ing for the past several years. $2.50.
NEW DIRECTIONS 9.
The annual exhibition gallery of divergent literary
trends. Special features include James T. Farrell's analysis of Amer–
ican publishing, Henry Miller's essay on Rimbaud, a selection of Paul
Eluard's war poetry, and a Little Anthology of Mexican Poets. Other
contributors: Tennessee Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos
Williams, David Cornel DeJong, Robert Lowry, Boris Pasternak,
etc. $3.75.
EXILES by James Joyce.
Francis Fergusson in his introduction calls "Exiles"
"a brilliant image of the ethical being of the young Joyce." The
great novelist's only work for the theate.r should soon take its rightful
place as part of the familiar repertory of the classic modern drama.
$1.50.
MISS LONELYHEARTS by Nathanael West.
A profound originality
characterizes all of West's writing; "Miss Lonelyhearts" is his finest.
The story of a newspaperman who becomes enmeshed in the fate of
the human derelicts who write letters to his agony column, "Miss
Lonelyhearts'' takes on a kind of savage, satiric poetry, with symbolic
overtones. $1 .50.
A MAN IN THE DIVIDED SEA by Thomas Merton.
"Merton is easily the
most promising of our American Catholic poe.ts and, possibly, the
most consequential Catholic poet to write in English since the death
of Francis Thompson," said "The Commonweal's" reviewer of Mer–
ton's first book, "Thirty Poems," which is here reprinted along with
a large selection of new work on religious and metaphysical themes.
$2.50.
NEW DIRECTIONS 500 FIFTH AVE. N. Y. 18
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