Almost exactly a year ago, I noted the release of Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines. Now, in a stroke of genius, NYRB Classics is broadcasting the entire book through Twitter. (Insert commentary on the ever-shifting world of media here).
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August 18th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I’ve been meaning to get my hands on this. Though I think I might stick to the old-skool format…
Did you happen across Daniil Kharms’ Incidences when it was published a couple of years back by Serpent’s Tail? Excellent work. All power to to the fragmentary! And afascinating (though tragic) life.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Oh damn, none of my html formatting worked. I’m still getting used to this Wordpress malarkey.
Incidences: http://www.serpentstail.com/book?id=10786
Wikipedia entry on Daniil Kharms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniil_Kharms
August 19th, 2008 at 4:53 am
If you’re after a hard copy, a great place to find discounted NYRB titles is Book Culture on West 112th, just off Broadway. Terrible name for a bookstore (doubly so because it used to be called Labyrinth), but excellent collection of remaindered fiction—they have piles and piles of Dalkey Archive stuff there, too.
I actually recently added Kharms’ Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms to my to-read list. It looks like it contains the material for Incidences in a new translation—by a translator who was recently praised by my favourite poetry critic.
But that’s just luck—keep the recommendations for fragmentary prose coming!