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Green Integer Series No.: 2
Pages: 140
ISBN: 978-1-55713-365-6
Price: U.S. $10.95*

Notes on the Cinematographer

Robert Bresson

Bresson is the French cinema, as Dostoyevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music. Listen to him: "A good craftsman loves the board he planes...."
--Jean-Luc Godard

Robert Bresson's Notes on the Cinematographer are working memos which the great French director made for his own use. In all of them, Bresson reflects with a craftsman's insight on techniques and their philosophical and aesthetic implications. Not surprisingly, these acute reflections will not only sharpen a filmmaker's sensibility but that of any artist in any medium. Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and something quite different: "cinema"--which is for him nothing but an attempt to photograph theater and use it for the screen.

Director of The Trial of Joan of Arc, Pickpocket, A Prisoner Escapes, Diary of a Country Priest, Money, and many other classic films, Bresson is, quite simply, one of the most brilliant cinematographers in the history of film.

Green Integer Series No.: 60
Pages: 166
ISBN: 1-931243-18-2
Price: U.S. $8.95*

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Written and published in 1843, the year after Dickens had traveled through the United States, A Christmas Carol has proved to be one of Dickens' most popular and well read works. Although Dickens wrote it originally with the hope of paying outstanding bills, the book—self printed with an expensive binding—did not bring in as much money as he had hoped, and he was forced to move his family to Genoa. There, in the hot Italian summer, Dickens penned his second Christmas story, "The Chimes".

Today few readers need introduction to this great Christmas classic of Ebenezer Scrooge, his dastardly treatment of his employee and family, and his "ba-humbug" attitude towards Christmas—all changed by a nightmarish sleep of visions past, present, and future.

This new edition, printed with the John Leech illustrations, again revels why this work is so appealing.

Green Integer Series No.: 28
Pages: 163
ISBN: 1-892295-14-8
Price: U.S. $10.95*

Hell Has No Limits

José Donoso

Author winner of the America Award for Literature

With its stark atmosphere, powerful characterizations, and dazzling alterations of perspective in time and gender, José Donoso's early masterwork, Hell Has No Limits, anticipates the qualities of better-known works of this Chilean magic-realist.

Originally published in 1966, this grimly vivid novel evokes the sweetness and despair during one fateful day in the collective existence of Estación El Olivo, a decayed community marked for doom as surely as Donoso's central character, the transvestite dancer/prostitute la Manuela, whose virginal daughter operates the brothel out of which she/he works.

La Manuela is menaced both by his would-be protector, the local politician/land baron who wants to raze Estación El Olivo for his expanding vineyards, and by a coldly vengeful trucker, nursing a lifetime of hurts, deprivation, and suppressed sexual ambiguity. The lives of this trio—past and present—are indelibly forged in the novel's stunning climax, which combines a shocking act of violence in the present with a bizarre erotic encounter from decades before.

Author of A House in the Country, The Obscene Bird of Night, Coronation, This Sunday, Curfew, and numerous other works, Donoso is one of the great Latin American “boom” novelists. He was awarded the International Prize of the Americas Awards in 1996, shortly before his death.

Green Integer Series No.: 31
Pages: 236
ISBN: 1-892295-61-X
Price: U.S. $12.95*

Suites

Federico García Lorca

Born in Fuentevaqueros, Granada in 1898, Federico García Lorca was one of the great Spanish poets and playwrights of the 20th century. He was murdered by Franco's soldiers in 1936.

Suites is one of the most charming and melodious of all of García Lorca's poem series. Written early in his career, most of these poems remained unpublished during his life-time and were later reassembled from notebooks. The first appearance of this work in English was in a small chapbook, titled Suites (Sun & Moon Press), and in the Collected Poems of 1988; but the current edition of Selected Verse contains only a fraction of the important series. This is the first complete single-volume edition of this great work.

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet and author of over sixty volumes of poems and nine assemblages of innovative and traditional poetry, among them Gematria (Sun & Moon Press). With Milos Sovak, he recently translated a collection of poetry by the Czech author Vítêzslav Nezval.

Green Integer Series No.: 26
Pages: 150
ISBN: 1-892295-13-x
Price: U.S. $10.95*

Poems

Sappho

This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho's line. The wondrous Mary Barnard translation was based, unfortunately, on the 1928 Loeb edition by J.M. Edmonds, who filled in many of Sappho's fragment with his own Greek lines. In Professor Barnstone's brilliant translation, Sappho's work is presented as we have inherited it, in its darkly antiromantic idiom that rejects sentimentality and "prettiness."

Willis Barnstone is one of the most noted translators of today. Barnstone has translated numerous texts, including The Cosmic Fragments of Heraclitus, Greek Lyric Poetry, and a literary translation of the New Testament. He is also the author of New and Selected Poems (1997), Moonbook & Sunbook (1998) and other books of poetry.

Green Integer Series No.: 94
Pages: 143
ISBN: 1-931243-48-4
Price: U.S. $11.95*

Dream Story

Arthur Schnitzler

Masterworks of Fiction (1926)

A married couple, Fridolin and Albertina, are troubled by events and jealous of each other's attentions the night before at a party. Suddenly, Fridolin, a doctor, is summoned to the bedside of a dying man, an elderly councilor, whose daughter he finds attractive and vaguely sensual.

So begins a series of involvements throughout the night and following day in increasingly dangerous and deviant sexual adventures for Fridolin, who, taken by a friend to a "secret" party, is forced to make choices that seemingly are beyond his control. The dream-like events are rendered more frighteningly real through Schnitzler's powerfully detailed descriptions, as little by little Fridolin gives in to the demands of the secret celebrants.

Do these represent real acts, or is the very fact that he imagines them enough to symbolize his moral decay? Schnitzler gives no answer, but Fridolin himself comes to realize that "No dream is entirely a dream."

Long recognized as one of Schnitzler's masterworks, the novel was recently filmed by Stanley Kubrick as Eyes Wide Shut with Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise as the married couple. In this superb translation, we recognize the full force of Schnitzler's haunting tale.

Green Integer Series No.: 50
Pages: 78
ISBN: 1-931243-42-5
Price: U.S. $0.00*

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

This edition of the legendary classic of 20^th century prose poetry is the second single-volume English-language edition since its original publication in 1914 by Claire Marie [Donald Evans]. Photographed from the original pages of that first edition, this new printing reveals the original form and structure of Stein's great work. Stein's writing is as startlingly fresh as if published last month—or tomorrow. Here, objects, food, and rooms come into new perspective in Stein's wonderfully original language. Everywhere and everything in Tender Buttons is a delicious linguistic concoction.

Green Integer Series No.: 41
Pages: 49
ISBN: 1-892295-93-8
Price: U.S. $6.95*

Civil Disobediance

Henry David Thoreau

One of the most important documents of American political thought, Civil Disobediance eloquently states a position that has influenced the thinking of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and many figures of the 1960's protests against the Vietnam War. Thoreau argues that "the progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect to the individual." "There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly."

Author of Walden, Henry David Thoreau is one of America's most important 19th century thinkers.