Pascal Bruckner, Author Algora Publishing $19.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-892941-56-5
Prolific essayist and novelist Bruckner (a winner of France's prestigious Medici Prize) offers a gracefully erudite, deliciously mordant critique of a recent species of human self-deception: infantilism and victimization, the idea that powerlessness
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Pascal Bruckner, Author Grove/Atlantic $0 (222p) ISBN 978-0-394-54138-9
No sooner do naive lovers Didier and Beatrice board the Truva, on what is to be its last voyage, than they fall into the icy grips of the embittered cripple Franz and his beautiful wife Rebecca. In the suffocating, deathlike atmosphere of the ship,...
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Pascal Bruckner. Polity, $19.95 trade paper (204p) ISBN 978-1-5095-3066-3
French philosopher Bruckner (The Tyranny of Guilt) argues that Islamophobia is being weaponized to muzzle legitimate critique of Islam in this dubious study. Building on his critique of “Western white guilt” (which he laid out in his previous book),
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Pascal Bruckner, trans. from the French by Steven Rendall. Polity (Wiley, dist.), $25 (204p) ISBN 978-0-7456-6976-2
In his newest work of political philosophy, Bruckner (The Tyranny of Guilt) takes a level-headed look at extreme ecologism and the true practicality of its proponents' most-quoted solutions. He opens with a seemly comparison of religious guilt and...
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Pascal Bruckner, Author, Steven Rendall, Translator . Princeton Univ. $26.95 (239p) ISBN 978-0-691-14376-7
In a critique of the West’s postcolonial self-flagellating tendencies that is both fascinating and repellent, prize-winning French novelist and essayist Bruckner (Tears of the White Man
) offers a broad defense of neoliberal democracy as a...
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Pascal Bruckner, Author, Joachim Neugroschel, Translator Little Brown and Company $21.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-316-11404-2
The tale of a fetus who refuses to leave the womb offers intriguing possibilities, but Bruckner's far-fetched satire ultimately fails to fire the imagination. Seized by an unshakable fear of living, 18-year-old Madeleine Kremer sets out to give her...
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