March 2011
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Noteworthy and Not: Poems by Attila József →
bettyann:
The Seventh If in this world you lay a claim, let seven births be your aim! Once be born in a burning home, once in a flood in an icy storm, once in a clinic where the mad retreat, once in a field of bending wheat, once in a cloister with a hollow ring, once in a sty with a pigsty…
No one reads Attila József.
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Edmond Jabès: Few Read Him, More Should
I discovered Edmond Jabès’ The Book of Questions serendipitously. The son of wealthy Egyptian Jews, Jabès’ earliest literary friendships were with Max Jacob, Paul Eluard, and Rene Char.
The Book of Questions is the story of two young lovers during the Nazi deportations; not using any traditional narrative, it speaks of Jewishness, silence, dispossession, and writing.
As explained:
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Mary Webb ... nobody reads her any more
[ANONYMOUS READER SUBMISSION]
Author of Precious Bane and a couple other novels from the early 20th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Webb
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No One Reads Violette Leduc
[SUBMITTED BY http://dailykvetch.tumblr.com/]
I came across Violette Leduc’s Mad in Pursuit in a used bookshop, and bought it due to the mention of Simone de Beauvoir on the back jacket. I then found La Bâtarde at my university’s bookstore. Maybe she’s taught in a French Authors in Translation there; I didn’t investigate. I was just happy to find the book. But I’ve...
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J. F. Powers
Submitted by Deirdre Donahue of USA Today. (Nice.)
No one reads J.F. Powers
Some books (Amazon links):
The Stories of J. F. Powers
Morte D’Urban
Wheat that Springeth Green
Cover by Milton Glaser, via Kyle K
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Sadegh Hedayat
No one reads Sadegh Hedayat (this post was a submission, but we all love this guy and may do a bigger post some day)
In English:
The Blind Owl (a classic)
Three Drops of Blood
Sadeq Hedayat: An Anthology
Haji Agha: Portrait of an Iranian Confidence Man (I featured the illustrations from this rare book on 50 Watts)
The Mystery of Creation: A Play
And:
Sadeq Hedayat: The Life and Legend...
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No one reads William March
[READER SUBMISSION…sorry I lost track of his name!]
I have been researching and writing about William March for around 4 years now, but no one else even knows he exists (outside of the Bad Seed film mostly). His WWI anti-war novel “Company K” was hailed as one of the finest war novels ever written (by Graham Greene, nonetheless), but he has faded into obscurity. I authored his...
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Borislav Pekić
[READER SUBMISSSION: billyjane]
Will, methinks no one reads Pekic - i do read the blog his wife is updating regularly - there’s even some english translations…
http://www.borislavpekic.com/search/label/English
one of my favorites is The Man Who Ate Death
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