 | Disconnection by C Ollier
Buy used from: £4.05 1988 - the end of the world, both now and then, spare, elliptical
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 | The Aesthetics of Resistance: A Novel: 1 by Peter Weiss
Buy new: £12.73 / Used from: £15.53 1975 - unrelenting slabs of prose, the struggle to resist, over and over
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 | Triptych by Claude Simon
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £5.50 1973 - the eye and the frame, the gaze and the screen: an autopsy of vision
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 | Place Names by Jean Ricardou
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £2.11 1969 - the battle of words and things (between Calvino and Robbe-Grillet)
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 | Great Fire of London by Jacques Roubaud
Buy used from: £9.50 1989 - to write in the face of utter loss, failure is never the end
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 | Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £11.60 1965 - when the language of delirium is the delirium of language
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 | The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras
Buy used from: £1.12 1982 - her most compressed, most powerful meditation
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 | Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
Buy used from: £28.46 1988 - if everything ended but language
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 | How it is by Beckett
Buy used from: £6.21 1961 - the mud and pain, this is our epic, again
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| The Children's Room (Calderbook) by Louis Rene Des Forets
Buy used from: £5.00 1946-60 - who am I when I am speaking, when I remember?
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 | Diana at Her Bath by Pierre Klossowski
Buy used from: £6.07 1956 - the law of desire has no place in this world
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 | Aminadab (Modernist French Library) by Maurice Blanchot
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £6.49 1942 - language is not a window through which we gaze on things but the darkness that surrounds them
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| Impressions of Africa (Calderbooks) by Raymond Roussel
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £3.75 1910 - the machine of writing turns and turns on itself
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 | The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James
Buy used from: £0.01 1904 - meaning so delicate that its glimmer is always on the point of appearing, but never does
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 | 4 Dada Suicides (Anti-classics of Dada) by Arthur Cravan
Buy new: £17.00 / Used from: £9.99 1926 - Torma's Euphorisms, the only inheritor of Ducasse's Poesies
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 | Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems by Roberto Juarroz
Buy used from: £49.95 waking up is always a difficult emergence
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 | For Anatole's Tomb (Fyfield books) by Stephane Mallarme
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £4.05 1879 - Kindertotenlieder, unlike any of his other writings
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 | Snow Part by Paul Celan
Buy new: £12.71 / Used from: £14.69 1968 - with the shattering of meaning there are only shardwords
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 | Poems and Prose by Georg Trakl
Buy new: £12.71 / Used from: £12.35 1914 - undergoing the endless decline of evening
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 | This Smoke That Carried Us: Selected Poems by Rene Char
Buy new: £12.15 / Used from: £27.71 the lightness between
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 | Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984 by H Michaux
Buy new: £19.90 / Used from: £17.45 you cannot conceive this horrible inside-outside that is real space
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 | Senselessness: A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute (New Directions Paperbook) by HC Moya
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £5.19 2004 - what can language do when only the paranoid can read the signs of brutality?
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 | An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (New Directions Paperbook) by C Aira
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £5.57 1995 - physiognomy is about focal length: at what point does appearance become reality?
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| The Attic Pretenders by Ernst Kreuder
Buy used from: £11.16 1946 - Celan's favourite novel apparently; the possibility of escape vs. the vastness of the unspeakable
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