Publication

2019 - Dalkey Archive Press

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781628973129
  • ISBN-101628973129
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018027171
  • OCLC Control Number1131801346
  • Better World Books9781628973129
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPQ4807.A95A2 2018
  • LCCPQ4807.A95 A2 2019

Description

"Roberto Bazlen published nothing in his lifetime. An advisor to Italian publishing houses, a translator of Freud and Jung, a friend of Montale and Calvino, he was nothing if not a literary man, but he was deeply suspicious of the enterprising spirit of the "literary world" and kept his writings to himself. Here, translated into English for the first time, the reader will discover Bazlen's private oeuvre: an unfinished novel, The Sea Captain, which bears comparison with the fiction of Kafka and Beckett; a selection of entries from his notebooks dealing with topics as various as whether or not there is an "animal Jahweh" and the aesthetic limitations of the cinema; a trio of essays on his native city of Trieste; and a sampling of his editorial letters. Notes Without a Text is an introduction to the work of one of the unknown masters of twentieth-century European literature"--

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