"Ama, e fai quel' che vuoi"
(S. Agostino)
tel: (01) 25 11 392
working days 10.00 to 20.00
saturdays 10.00 to 15.00
Behemot Bookshop opened on the 4th of November 2005. We are an independent bookshop specializing in quality books in English.
New York Times article on C. G. Jung's Red Book
Richard Gottlieb analasys Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are
How does our language shape the way we think
Kottke about Zeitoun, new book by Dave Eggers
Richard Cytowic talking about his new book, Wednesday is Indigo Blue
Amherst College interview with David Foster Wallace
Kottke on Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Kottke on Roberto Bolano's 2666
If you have been to Behemot Bookshop, you know that we do not have bar-code reader and similarly I promise we shall never have shopping baskets here. This is about books and about people. About people that love books and about books that love people. All in all, about love.
There are about 2000 carefully selected titles on our shelves. We try to choose the most important and the most beautiful books in a rather wide range of subjects. However, if you are looking for a book that is not on our shelves, we can order it for you at no extra charge. As long as it is in English, we can get it for you.
Where the Wild Things Are trailer
an interview with Darren Aronofsky
an interview with Michel Gondry
MIT Documents of Contemporary Art Series
Oxford University Press World's Classics
Dover books in Occult and Esoteric studies
Dover books in Science and Mathematics
There should be no doubt: our bookshop is named only and solely after the most beautiful, notoriously famous, cult novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Bookstore Guide, an independent guide to bookshops throughout Europe
Knjigarna Behemot * Behemot Bookshop
This is not really a blog. Here we link to interesting articles, interviews, art. As on our shelves, some writers we follow closely, some we ignore. We are never first to link. Some links might be months old. Nevertheless, they all mirror Behemot's unique curiosity.
C. G. Jung: The Red Book or Liber Novus
Tower with Birds, Lucy McLauchlan
David Lynch windowdresser
When was the last time you dreamed of flying?
Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Alice in Wonderland
Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze inspired by 1963 classic picture book
Fake street signs collected
This beautiful book is already out of print. Click on the image above for some pictures taken from inside the book. It's funny.. now, where is art? Is it closer to Mark Ryden or is it closer to Blu? (If you don't know what's Blu check the video box on the lower right) The really funny thing with art is that you never really know where it is. Unless it hits you.
Ever since our son was one year old and ever since our first two Anthony Browne's books (Things I Like and I Like Books) we (both at home and in the bookshop) became a real devoted Anthony Browne fans. I think of Willy and there is a smile on my face. Willy is a legend. Voices in the Park is like Rashomon for kids. With flower at the end.
Little People in the City is one public art project. Somebody out there leaves this great minutely manufactured little people around the city (in more or less dramatic circumstances). One of my personal favorites is a little guy that commutes in a train, sitting by the window, reading newspaper. The picture in the book caught also a real life person (almost an exact copy of the little one) commuting to work, reading his newspapers. Did he notice the little copy of himself? Who are the lucky ones that discover these little people? What do they do with them? Does anoyne know of a website that would trace and track the destiny of the little ones?
Miranda July made this web page for her book No One Belongs Here More Than You something like two years ago. Recently she added several new pages for the paperback edition. I like the warm, relaxed kitchen, fridge, sink feel to it. And I love when she lights the fire.
There's a great view on one space invader right from the doorstep of our bookshop. Click on the image above to learn more and truly appreciate the project. In the indoors section they have Travis Bickle in his Mohican phase made with Rubik's cubes. There are books published in limited print runs. Invasion in the UK looks very interesting. It seems out of print though and according to pricy second hand offers already a colector's item.
Dave Eggers
The Wild Things
McSweeney's Books, October 2009
hardcover, 300 pages
17.20 eur
David Byrne
Bicycle Diaries
Faber, August 2009
hardcover, 208 pages
17.00 eur
Dubravka Ugrešić
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
Canongate, May 2009
hardback, 256
pages
20.00 eur
Shaun Tan
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Arthur A. Levine, February 2009
hardback, 96
pages
17.60 eur
Bulgakov, Klimovski, Schejbal
Master and
Margarita
A Graphic Novel
Self Made Hero, January 2009
paperback, 128
pages
17.00 eur
Alain Badiou
Logics of Worlds
The Sequel to Being and Event
Continuum, May 2009
hardback, 640
pages
22.60 eur
David W. Anthony
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Princeton University Press, October 2007
hardback, 553
pages
32.70 eur
Ernst H. Gombrich
A Little History of the
World
Yale University Press, August 2008
paperback, 304 pages
10.60 eur
Naomi Klein
The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism
Penguin, May 2008
paperback, 576 pages
9.40 eur
Slavoj Žižek
In Defense of Lost Causes
Verso,
October 2009
paperback, 528 pages
17.00 eur
David Lynch
Catching the Big Fish
Meditation, Consciousness, and
Creativity
Jeremy P. Tarcher, January 2008
paperback, 192 pages
11.80
eur
Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis
The Story of a Childhood and the Story of a
Return
Vintage, March 2008
paperback, 352 pages
10.60 eur
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