{"product_id":"notes-without-a-text-and-other-writings-9781628973129","title":"Notes Without a Text and Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn advisor to Italian publishing houses, a translator of Freud and Jung, a friend of Montale and Calvino, Roberto Bazlen was nothing if not a literary man, but kept his writings to himself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, translated into English for the first time, the reader will discover Bazlen's private oeuvre: an unfinished novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Captain\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eNotes Without a Text\u003c\/i\u003e is an introduction to the work of one of the unknown masters of twentieth-century European literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndriesse, Alex:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAlex Andriesse\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, a translator, and the managing editor of the \u003ci\u003eReview of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. His translation of François-René de Chateaubriand's \u003ci\u003eMemoirs from Beyond the Grave, 1768-1800\u003c\/i\u003e is published by New York Review of Books Classics.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalasso, Roberto:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRoberto Calasso\u003c\/b\u003e is the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni and lives in Milan. He is the author of a multi-volume work in progress that began with \u003ci\u003eThe Ruin of Kasch\u003c\/i\u003e and includes such books as \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eK.\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTiepolo Pink\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa Folie Baudelaire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArdor\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBazlen, Roberto:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRoberto Bazlen\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eNotes Without a Text\u003c\/i\u003e is an introduction to the work of one of the unknown masters of twentieth-century European literature.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50474449666322,"sku":"9781628973129","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_566ca36f-a9ff-4d59-9719-5defa802df8b.jpg?v=1730220986","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/notes-without-a-text-and-other-writings-9781628973129","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}