Dalkey Archive Press

There are a couple of online national library database aggregate searches. That's an idea though.
Now that I've actually looked it up, I see the audio book is much, much cheaper than I expected; it's just $15.96 at the moment.

I'd recommend Max Frisch's "I'm Not Stiller", but I have hardly any memory of it at all, except that I really liked it. Sheesh.

2008: The Year I Officially Lost My Edge!

I'm Not Stiller is pretty good but by the halfway point I thought it really lost its momentum

Dalkey publishes the actinic Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus ("the antiperson"). Sample it on google books.

I didn't know they had finally put out more by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Four in total now! Those are definitely worth checking out.

Briefly looking through my shelves for something not mentioned, I seem to remember enjoying Hidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic.

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show/593

The big sale is here again! http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/ . What will make your list?

'Zat you, Momuspaws?

Oh no, sorry.

Sale looks like a good deal but I'd probably have to find the shelf space by getting rid of ten unread Dalkey Archives to make room for ten new ones.

feelin u

Not good outside US -- waaaaah!

Recent purchase just came in post yesterday:
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Joseph McElroy's Women and Men is no longer on their site. Hmm.

Hm.

Good luck with the Puig. I tried to read that one, but couldn't keep track of who was talking at any given time. Mak

alimosina - Does Dalkey always keep bks in print? Its an oddly under discussed novel, unlike Recognitions, GR. Which makes me very curious to read it.

I had thought so, and this interview backs me up:

"Further, I wanted these books permanently protected, which is why from the start the Press has kept all of its fiction in print, regardless of sales."

But I guess they didn't stick with that policy.

One of my all-time favorites is A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki. Put it on your list!

OK, thanks for the tip.

Tried to find something besides the McElroy that went out of print but couldn't. Maybe it was at the author's request?

Nobody repped for Felipe Alfau yet, the loony Spaniard with a day job writing in English for his dresser drawer? I will then.

Read a review of the Konwicki a few weeks ago so am on the look out -- sounds great, on my list!

Jiri Grusa's The Questionnaire is another good 'un (he spent two months in jail for distributing it), really now getting a focus on the post-Stalinist lit of the Eastern states in the period just before the collapse of the Soviet union.

Love the hell out of Stanley Elkin (who i guess I got to through Gass, who I see I've mentioned upthread)
Get The Franchiser; my god, it's a fucking celebration!

I've fallen for the hype and ordered a copy of Witz. We'll see how it turns out.

Witz?

Witz is the new novel by Joshua Cohen. See this, for instance. I guess it's this year's huge damn book.

(link kinda randomly picked from google hits, I couldn't think of any particular article that had made me interested in it)

I have a volume of Arno Schmidt's stories on Dalkey that is awesome. Need to get the others in the set!

there's an extract from the new patrik ourednik (europeana) translation case closed here, f-y'alls-i. his last one got some love on the ilx book decade list thing.

here

ok, John E.Woods is apparently bringing out a translation of Zettels Traum (this is accoring to wiki), its a near 1500 page novel "concerned with the problems of translating Edgar Allan Poe into German".

It's so crazy it might just work!

I'm gonna read Zettels Traum, I tell you what

they've really stepped it up with their aesthetics

http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n61/n305188.jpg

Ooh that's beautiful. I have this one:

http://static.letsbuyit.com/filer/images/uk/products/original/147/30/notebooks-of-malte-laurids-brigge-the-german-austrian-literature-14730686.jpeg

I don't have this one but look how pink it is:

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/Resources/titles/15647100070860/Images/15647100070860L.gif

More here:

http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2008/10/dalkey.html

oh, i guess you do know!

This interview with Dalkey archive founder John O'Brien is pretty interesting. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/john-obrien-of-the-dalkey-archive-part-1.html
Had not known that their first book with Gilbert Sorrentino's Splendide-Hotel and that GS had come up with the name of the press.

The ILL for the Konwicki came through yesterday. This has one of the best first paras of any novel I've ever touched!

Just looking at the archive by country: kinda feeling I know quite a few authors, love the work Dalkey does to bring dissident writers from the old Eastern bloc and Latin American exiles to the fore and how their backgrounds cross over with innovation in narrative techniques: I the Supreme is one of the better novels I have read from the imprint and the multiple shifts of narration to convey views of a supreme leader lead to powerful dissections.

But one thing I haven't really dug much out of are the American authors, like, apart from Harry Mathews and Djuna Barnes no names really register too much. Dislike Mulligan Stew, and I find myself getting less and less interested in Ben Marcus/Markson (and its not necessarily confined to Americans: I'm not as into the Noveau Roman, though I am v fond of Butor's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape).

On the other hand Felipe Alfau sounds interesting, mainly because to do with when it was written. Also interested in checking McElroy short story collection at some point.

Has anyone got more US names they'd like to rep for?

I mean its, with all the claims for bringing lit from other countries still the biggest section. About 200 titles. I think the next biggest is the French with about 50 or so.

Has anyone got more US names they'd like to rep for?

William Gass, The Tunnel.

Think of him more as a very fine writer in critic mode. Didn't it take him about 30 years to finish?

Just went to the Dalkey Archive sight and found a link to an interesting interview with Christopher Sorrentino about his unloved-by-ILX-except-for-me father http://www.matrixmagazine.org/2010/09/christopher-sorrentino-interviewed-by-john-goldbach/

Sorry about that. You have been a solid advocate for Sorrentino over the years.

Might try another one or two, the interviewer in your link does say the novels are v different.

I adored "Under The Shadow", which seemed to me closer to the spirit of surrealist painting/cinema than any (other?) surrealist book I've ever read. I've struggled with the other couple of GS's books I've randomly picked up.

(Not that I've made a point of reading much surrealist lit, btw.)

xyzzzz which Konwicki are you reading? A Minor Apocalypse? if so, rock on, I remember it kickin' ass

I love that book.

Yes, A Minor Apocalypse. Has this really corrosive tone that I seldom come across.

The aim is to enrage a censor, like every page for 2-3 sentences, at least. You get a feel that its one for the drawer, or for smuggling across the border. And reading about him (and of course the novel itself which is about him, as much as Poland at that time) you get a sense of making up for all the shameful stuff he must have written in his soviet realist phase.

Quite remarkable. This and Grusa's Questionnaire have that fantastical thing to it, as far removed from any even ground, as possible.

Also interesting to draw a parallel between Konwicki and maybe Bolano: how culture is hijacked by politics to present certain images abroad. Stuff which you come across anyway but here you get an insider view.

(Not that I've made a point of reading much surrealist lit, btw.)

Well I've recently read Blaise Cendrars (which was recommended on the my 'prose as novelists' thread by you, Tim, iirc). I've got a Rene Crevel novel (not the one published by Dalkey) and I'm gonna give that a go soon.

how was blaise cendrars?

Moravagine is brill! Guy frees a murderer and they go on a journey across the world together. Just an excuse to write great phrases tho'.

Given the bits and scraps I know about the art, its how I might have imagined a surrealist novel.

Should read more, its the only that I see 2nd hand.

I've never been too fond of Moravagine, but if you can find it Lice is a really great book

Oh right why not? I'll be on the lookout for Lice

Stoked for newly translated Michal Ajvaz https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/journey-to-the-south

Is it just me or is this a bit fucked?

For anyone who didn’t see it, we’re looking for a dozen or so people willing to proof part of MISS MACINTOSH MY DARLING. If you’re interested (we’ll give you a finished copy as payment), DM or email. Can get you the PDF and assignment this weekend!!

— Chad W. Post (@chadwpost) March 23, 2023

Proof stuff for free (one book = not free?)

Guess they never did fill that one intern position.

It is a bit fucked, but from memory they're a non-profit with him and one other half-time staff member, so they're not exactly swimming in cash.

I know...feel for Chad I suppose, he has done some good work.

And I would like to read that book. I thought it came out last year..