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Notes without a text and other writings, Roberto Bazlen ; edited and with an introduction by Roberto Calasso ; translated from the Italian by Alex Andriesse

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Notes without a text and other writings, Roberto Bazlen ; edited and with an introduction by Roberto Calasso ; translated from the Italian by Alex Andriesse

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-327)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Notes without a text and other writings

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1039670126

Responsibility statement

Roberto Bazlen ; edited and with an introduction by Roberto Calasso ; translated from the Italian by Alex Andriesse

Series statement

Italian literature series

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

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