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Tuesday 22 April 2008

Josipovici's Top Ten Novellas

Earlier, I mentioned my Editor's Corner Tuesday Top Ten feature (today featuring Two Ravens Press publisher Sharon Blackie). Well, I'm going to go ahead and steal my own idea (hardly original, for sure) and have a Tuesday Top Ten here on ReadySteadyBook ...


Below is a list -- how exciting is this! -- of Gabriel Josipovici's "top ten novellas – or short novels, or long short stories – books of about 100 pages that ask to be read in one go. I give the English title of standard translations for all except the Perec, which, so far as I know, has not been translated:"



Anyone have a copy of Adalbert Stifter's Ice Mountain they want to swap for ... a pile of new books? I can't find a copy anywhere! Actually, I do have a copy (of the Pushkin Press version): I best read it!

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Tuesday 22 April 2008

No Answers says...

Mark, I think this is also translated as "Rock Crystal." You can buy it from Pushkin Press: http://www.pushkinpress.com/stifter-rock.html, which takes you to http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1901285278. There are a few cheap second hand copies left, though only a few ...

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Mark says...

Oh, right -- that's me being very, very daft. I have the Pushkin ... somewhere!

NYRB Classics are publishing a version in October too: http://tinyurl.com/3p5c3g

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Lee Rourke says...

What joy this brings!

Lee Rourke

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Richard says...

ah, excellent.... and I'm on a Josipovici high, having just read The Singer on the Shore... much to ponder!

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Stephen Mitchelmore says...

Passacaglia by Pinget is available in Dalkey Archive's edition called Trio:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/showbook.php?id=1564784088

Thursday 24 April 2008

bdr says...

Bailbondsman - Stanley Elkin.

Sunday 27 April 2008

John Self says...

BritLitBlogger Stewart has written about Stifter's Rock Crystal here:

http://booklit.com/blog/2007/12/26/adalbert-stifter-rock-crystal/

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