October 11th, 2010 / 1:13 am
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Anteaus‘s Neglected Books of the 20th Century is the kind of list making me feel like a lazy reader.

15 Comments

  1. October 11th, 2010 / 5:31 am Trey—

      one of stanley elkin’s choices was his own book. dang it.

  2. October 11th, 2010 / 5:42 am Michael—

      My [Dalkey] edition of Butor’s Mobile is simply subtitled ‘a novel’, rather than the much more interesting and appropriate ‘Study for a Representation of the United States’ listed here. Might pen(cil) in a correction.

  3. October 11th, 2010 / 6:26 am Owen Kaelin—

      Can you do that?

  4. October 11th, 2010 / 7:57 pm apsiegel—
  5. October 11th, 2010 / 4:15 pm M Kitchell—

      This site is where I first heard of Hans Henny Jahnn, who is awesome & has become one of my favorite authors.

  6. October 11th, 2010 / 5:09 pm Trey—

      haha, he can do it, but I can be annoyed by it.

  7. October 11th, 2010 / 5:21 pm Slowstudies—

      Both Butor books on this list are definitely worth investigating. As is Elkin’s A BAD MAN, even if he did choose it himself. Maybe I’m not reading very carefully, but there’s more than a bit of Elkin (among many, many other things) in Joshua Cohen’s writing, as I see this most strongly in connection with A BAD MAN (and THE LIVING END).

  8. October 11th, 2010 / 5:32 pm letters journal—

      Where did you find his books? Having a bit of trouble finding translations.

  9. October 11th, 2010 / 5:45 pm M Kitchell—

      The Ship– which is my favorite, I got through inter-library loan, since the only available translations are both impossible to find for sale for less than $100.

      The Night of Lead used to be in print from Atlas Press, and it was still available when they made ordering directly from them to the US possible, but it appears they are out of it now. I’ve never actually seen it anywhere used though.

      The only other thing available in English is “13 Uncanny Tales,” which I haven’t read, but I plan on getting it through the library soon.

  10. October 11th, 2010 / 5:47 pm M Kitchell—
  11. October 11th, 2010 / 7:26 pm apsiegel—

      Jahnn really is fantastic. If I could get a publisher to sign on, I would translate the rest of Nacht aus Blei (it’s a fragment of a much longer work), and Jahnn’s amazing plays (he did an outstanding version of Medea).

  12. October 11th, 2010 / 7:33 pm M Kitchell—

      It seems that many of my favorite non-French artists seem to surround Medea in some way (Jahnn’s play, Frans Zwartjes film, & early LvT’s film). That’s interesting to me.

      I am not a real publisher, but if you ever want to publish any excerpts or shorter works in a supremely limited edition (I have no idea how to figure out translation rights…) I’d be more than willing to do it at Solar Luxuriance. Because I love Jahnn, and want to read more.

  13. October 11th, 2010 / 7:57 pm apsiegel—
  14. October 12th, 2010 / 1:59 am reynard seifert—

      interlibrary loan is the greatest thing ever

  15. October 12th, 2010 / 4:24 am M Kitchell—

      it is absolutely the best