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Arno Schmidt: Evening Edged in Gold 

Published by Marion
Boyars, 1980

Hardcover, 215 pages

ISBN: 9780714527192

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3OByfgX

 

Arno Schmidt (Vol 1): Collected Novellas

Published by Dalkey
Archive Press, 1994

Paperback &
Hardcover, 446 pages

ISBN: 9781564780669

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3Yc1vOi

 

Arno Schmidt (Vol 2): Nobodaddy’s Children

Published by Dalkey
Archive Press, 1995

Paperback &
Hardcover, 256 pages

ISBN: 9781564780904

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3rMFR7c

 

Arno Schmidt (Vol 3): Collected Stories

Published by Dalkey
Archive Press, 1996

Paperback &
Hardcover, 328 pages

ISBN: 9781564781345

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/4750vzL

 

Arno Schmidt (Vol 4): Two Novels

Published by Dalkey
Archive Press, 1997

Paperback &
Hardcover, 432 pages

ISBN: 9781564786623

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3rOLpOw

 

Arno Schmidt: Bottom’s Dream

Published by Dalkey
Archive Press, 2016

Paperback &
Hardcover, 1496 pages

ISBN: 9781628971590

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3rP2FTU

 

Today Episode in VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7rNngCEwCdY

Today’s Episode in Text: PENDING

 

Join us on /r/Arno_Schmidt: https://www.reddit.com/r/Arno_Schmidt/

 

Sections:

00:00 Intro

04:33 Arno Schmidt – A Post Mortem

10:21 In the Wake of the Wake

15:14 What the Hell am I Looking At?

26:16 Etym Theory – Uneartheing the Subconscious

30:14 John E Woods and the Dalkey Archive

36:33 Bibliographic Survey and Proposed Starting
Points

43:08 The Elephant in the Room

45:34 Flex

46:44 The Elephant in the Room (Cont’d)

50:43 The Schmidtaissance, /r/Arno_Schmidt, Looking
Forward

 

Secondary Resources:

1.     No
One Reads Arno Schmidt: https://bit.ly/43Pp9BB

2.     The
Life & CV of Arno Schmidt: https://bit.ly/44MCawY

3.     Arno
Schmidt – Die freie Enzyklopadie: https://bit.ly/47cB0ML

4.     Arno
Schmidt – Writing Style and Personal Philosphy: https://bit.ly/3rUm85o

5.     Comic
Commentators on the Book of Mormon: https://bit.ly/457J4MZ

6.     The
Last Interview with John E Woods: https://bit.ly/3OeXJz5

7.     Arno
Schmidt’s Prose: https://bit.ly/3OcDXEo

8.     Zettel’s
Traum – An Analysis: https://bit.ly/3OAJ6HG

9.     Review
of Contemporary Fiction – Arno Schmidt Number: https://bit.ly/47cBt1t

10.  New
York Times - A Translator Takes on a Nearly Impossible Project: https://bit.ly/47ekags

11.  How
Does This Get Read: https://bit.ly/44SmHeY

12.  The
Word Count of 175 Favourite Novels: https://bit.ly/3KiTO3b

13.  Longest
Word Count Ranking: https://bit.ly/3rRHAZ3

14.  Announcing
the Relaunch of Dalkey Archive: https://bit.ly/3DzmLUD

 

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Music: “I Hate That” by ThisKidsNoGood

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Arno Schmidt: Collected Novellas (Collected Early Fiction Vol 1)



BUY IT
HERE: https://bit.ly/3rNx2Kv

 

Published by Dalkey
Archive Press, 1994

Paperback & Hardcover, 446 pages

ISBN: 9781564780669

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3Yc1vOi

Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3YaXPfR

 

Today
Episode in Audio: PENDING

Today’s
Episode in Text: PENDING

Arno
Schmidt Primer Episode: https://youtu.be/7rNngCEwCdY

 

Join us on
/r/Arno_Schmidt: https://www.reddit.com/r/Arno_Schmidt/

 

Sections:

00:00 Intro

05:18 Publication and Survey of Contents

11:42 Translation, Compensation, and Impossibility

19:31 Reclaiming a Stolen Language

24:16 Fascism and Antiquity

41:31 Notecard and Photographs

61:47 Legacy and Melancholy

76:47 End Notes

79:11 Centaurs and Cold Wars and Sci-Ops, Oh My!

 

Readings
from p. 23, 50, 80, 136, 170

 

Secondary Resources:

1.     NYT - John Woods Dies at 80: https://bit.ly/3qcvdq0

2.     An Interview with John E
Woods: https://bit.ly/3OzXu2U

3.     Mining the Dalkey
Archive: https://bit.ly/44SmHeY

4.     Umberto Eco – Ur Fascism
(NYRB): https://bit.ly/3YfaDS9

5.     14 Signs of Fascism: https://bit.ly/44OWxJS

6.     Ryan Kerr – Writing Its
Own Wrunes: https://bit.ly/3qbuLrY

7.     Arno and Alice Schmidt –
Photo 77 […]: https://bit.ly/47cDkU8

8.     Arno Schmidt –
Calculations I: https://bit.ly/478s1w5

9.     Zettelarchiv: https://bit.ly/3KlF0Rc

10.  Klaus Theweleit – You
Give Me Fever: https://bit.ly/3KkMGTI

11.  Melancholia Opening
Scene: https://bit.ly/3Kl9piN

12.  Arno Schmidt Stiftung: https://bit.ly/3OcDXEo

13.  David Foster Wallace
Interview, 2003: https://bit.ly/3OcILJZ

14.  Axel Gelfert – We Are the
End of the World: https://bit.ly/3qcvuJy

15.  The Congress for Cultural
Freedom: https://bit.ly/3OyYjce

 

Schmidt-related Twitter Tangents:

1. Enthymesis: https://twitter.com/wastemailing/status/1638827603330232321

2. Leviathan: https://twitter.com/wastemailing/status/1639194683229495296

3. Gadir: https://twitter.com/wastemailing/status/1639549358931853312

4. Alexander: https://twitter.com/wastemailing/status/1639832587119259648

 

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“Solenoid” by Mircea Cărtărescu

Translated by Sean Cotter

BUY IT HERE: http://bit.ly/3AaRh6b

First published by Humanitas, 2015

Published by Deep Vellum, 2022

Paperback, 672 pages

ISBN: 0140110879

Goodreads: http://bit.ly/3hGF7M1

Storygraph: http://bit.ly/3TwKU3R

Today Episode in Video: PENDING

Today’s Episode in Text: PENDING

Sections:

00:00 Intro & Preamble

03:19 The Find

06:16 Publication and Translation

11:51 The Fall

19:58 The Exhumed Reality: Taxonomic Considerations

33:04 The Borina Solenoid (Plot)

39:02 Flatland and the Fourth Dimension: An Intertextual Investigation

01:00:50 Mail Call

01:02:30 The Other Side

01:16:49 Iron and Crystal

01:34:10 Diaries, Dreams, and Departures

01:54:31 Afterword

Readings from p. 1, 32, 37, 39, 42, 70, 71, 79, 98, 107, 108, 156, 164, 209, 212, 356, 378, 379, 434, 445, 456, 487, 492, 596, 673, 675, ∞

Secondary Resources:

1. Solenoid – The Untranslated Review: http://bit.ly/3UAYxAa

2. Blinding Vol 1 – Video Review: http://bit.ly/3UUx6RJ

3. Poesia esencial: http://bit.ly/3tsGpwD

4. Romanian Literature Now – Solenoid: http://bit.ly/3tt28Ve

5. Nicolae Manolescu: http://bit.ly/3GdUR3h

6. De Reactor Interview via The Untranslated: http://bit.ly/3AeML6t

7. The Dimensions of Solenoid (II): http://bit.ly/3EDQTjj

8. Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit: http://bit.ly/3tvtNF3

9. Maica Domnului Google Pin: http://bit.ly/3UWnGW3

10. Solenoid Coil: http://bit.ly/3hECxWJ

11. Smale-Williams Solenoid: http://bit.ly/3E8f0oH

12. Edwin Abbott – Flatland .pdf: http://bit.ly/3Epul4v

13. Il Manifesto Interview: http://bit.ly/3Gi1KjU

14. Arnolfini Portrait: http://bit.ly/3UQuuEu

15. Trompe l’Oeil: http://bit.ly/3O0GQb3

16. Escaping Criticism: http://bit.ly/3txmv3m

17. Blackwood – A Victim of Higher Space .pdf: http://bit.ly/3WRPHQa

18. A Victim of Higher Space Review: http://bit.ly/3AcUoue

19. The Poetics of the Hypercycle: http://bit.ly/3E2GhZD

20. Seeking the Doom of Self-Annihilation: http://bit.ly/3Gj29Tr

21. From Blinding to Solenoid: http://bit.ly/3hJq6IY

22. Socialist Paradise or Tower of Total Surveillance: http://bit.ly/3huAnZw

23. Hinton Cubes: http://bit.ly/3WYGUvZ

24. DeWitt – Moral Authority: http://bit.ly/3E1XhPE

25. Balcanu – Real and fantastic Bucharest: http://bit.ly/3g5p21O

“The Logos” by Mark De Silva

BUY IT HERE (Splice UK): https://bit.ly/3Sueh7D

PRE-ORDER IT HERE (Clash Books USA): https://bit.ly/3QX2DAp



First published by Splice, 2022

Published (pending) by Clash Books, 2022

Paperback, 1036 pages

ISBN: 1919639829

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3QmxGp5

Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3SuRSab



Today's Episode in Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZAZmzj4CkU&ab_channel=WASTEMailingList



Sections:

00:00 Intro

02:31 The Problem with Big Books

07:35 Plot

13:14 Prose Style

17:53 In Conversation with Mark De Silva

01:14:05 Cabinet of Curiosities

01:21:46 The Utility of Mystery



Readings from p. 1, 104, 106, 161, 329/30, 343, 360/1, 411, 636, 637



Secondary Resources:

1. Mark De Silva on Beyond the Zero: https://bit.ly/3K86NTS

2. In Defence of Writing Books […]: https://bit.ly/3wjkXfn

3. Indie Splice Snaps Up De Silva […]: https://bit.ly/3QX2DAp



Thank you to Daniel Davis Wood for the ARC and thank you to Mark De Silva for your time in participating in today’s episode.

Daniel Davis Wood Twitter: https://twitter.com/danieldaviswood

Mark De Silva Twitter: https://twitter.com/markdesilva1?lang=en

You can find more of Mark’s work on his website: https://mark-de-silva.com/



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“Their Four Hearts” by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton

BUY IT HERE: https://amzn.to/3OlMvaX

First published until the title Сердца Четырех by Конец Века, 1994

First published in English by Dalkey Archive Press, 2022

Paperback, 209 pages

ISBN: 9781628973969

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3A5k1Ov

Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3NkVsA6



Sections:

00:00 Preamble

03:29 Vladimir Sorokin: A Brief History

07:38 Publication History

09:13 Plot & Satirical Intent

14:59 The Russian De Sade (feat. Max Lawton)

01:07:44 On Violence and Libido

01:15:21 The Aesthetics of Resistance

01:21:59 End Notes



Readings from p. 72, 116



Secondary Resources:

1. Vladimir Sorokin: https://bit.ly/3u1HlZI

2. The Shock Jock of Russian Letters: https://bit.ly/3OKtD5o

3. Moscow Conceptualists: https://bit.ly/3niUHNi

4. He Envisioned a Nightmare […] Living in One: https://nyti.ms/3ndQx9v

5. Vladimir Sorokin – Сердца Четырех: https://bit.ly/3AlbY0b

6. Socialist Realism: https://bit.ly/3NmN0jB

7. Interview with Max Lawton: https://bit.ly/3uq7oKj

8. Vladimir Putin […] Power: https://bit.ly/3xXMmmY

9. Camille Paglia – Sexual Personae: https://bit.ly/3HZOxeA

10. Long Live Socialist Realism: https://bit.ly/3NrbqZb



My thanks to Dalkey Archive Press for the review copy, and to Max Lawton for his time and attention.



Max Lawton on Beyond the Zero: https://bit.ly/3NnyaJQ



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Music: “I Hate That” by ThisKidsNoGood

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“Blinding” by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter

BUY IT HERE: https://amzn.to/3w9OUxr

First published by Editura Humanitas, 1996

Published by Archipelago, 2013

Paperback, 464 pages

ISBN: 1935744844

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3shxjTm

Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3yCXojN



Today Episode in Video: PENDING 

Today’s Episode in Text: PENDING



Sections:

00:00 Prelude

02:17 Preamble and Context

04:39 Cărtărescu’s Opus

08:05 Publication History

11:24 Translation

17:08 The Tyranny of Plot

23:08 Structural Conceit

33:04 Memory & Imaginative Construction

45:45 A New Religion

54:18 End Notes



Readings from p. 22, 40, 43, 74, 88, 128, 252, 284, 309, 339, 311, 313, 338, 462



Secondary Resources:

1. WWB – An Interview with Mircea Cărtărescu: https://bit.ly/3wcJuC1

2. Mircea Cărtărescu by Ella Veres: https://bit.ly/3M0GUFT

3. Music & Lit – In Conversation with Mircea Cărtărescu: https://bit.ly/3yqq27y

4. Humanitas (Publishing House): https://bit.ly/3vYrnRj

5. CATranslation – Sean Cotter Interview: https://bit.ly/3KYOhfu

6. Archipelago Books - About: https://archipelagobooks.org/about/

7. Archipelago Books: https://bit.ly/3Ft8d9o

8. EuroLit Network – From BLINDING: https://bit.ly/3M49ING

9. Archipelago – Translator Sean Cotter: https://bit.ly/38bjNd9

10. Open Letter Books: https://www.openletterbooks.org/

11. HuffPost – Sean Cotter on Translating Blinding: https://bit.ly/3wiX2fh

12. KCRW Bookworm – David Foster Wallace 1996: https://kcrw.co/38ku2M1

13. Anca Balcanu – Real & Fantastic Bucharest (2007): https://bit.ly/3vV2m9F

14. KROnline - We Are All the Result of Chaos: https://bit.ly/3yoAsEu



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