The BURIED Book Club discussion

Stefan Themerson (1910–1988) was a Polish, later British poet, novelist, filmmaker, composer and philosopher.

Stefan and Franciszka Themerson published books through their own Gaberbocchus Press from 1948 to 1979, many of them with Franciszka's illustrations, and sometimes working with the translators Barbara Wright and Stanley Chapman. Among those books were works by Guillaume Apollinaire and Kurt Schwitters, the first English translation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style and The Good Citizen's Alphabet by Bertrand Russell. The latter wrote a warm preface to Professor Mmaa’s Lecture.

Books

Jankel Adler or an Artist seen from one of many possible angles. 1948

Aesop, The Eagle & the Fox, the Fox & the Eagle. 1949

Bayamus (and the Theatre of Semantic Poetry).1949

Wooff Wooff or Who killed Richard Wagner? 1951

Professor Mmaa's Lecture. 1953

The Adventures of Peddy Bottom. 1954

factor T (philosophical essay). 1956

Kurt Schwitters in England.1958

The Bone in the Throat (one-act play). 1959

Cardinal Polatuo. 1961

Semantic Divertissements. 1962

Tom Harris.1967

Apollinaire's Lyrical Ideograms. 1968

St Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio (an opera, libretto and music). 1972

Special Branch (a dialogue). 1972

Logic, Labels and Flesh (ten philosophical essays). 1974

On Semantic Poetry. 1975

General Piesc (The Case of the Forgotten Mission).1976

The Chair of Decency (Johan Huizinga Lecture). 1982

The Urge to Create Visions. 1983

The Mystery of the Sardine. 1986

Hobson's Island. 1988

Collected Poems, 1999

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I have read:

Bayamus and Cardinal Polatuo

and

The Mystery of the Sardine

And have posted reviews + excerpts. All three were fantastic

Gabberbocchus also put out the most obscure of Anna Kavan novels, a philosophic fable co-written her psychiatrist, The Horse's Tale.

(Kavan is someone I was always on the verge of entering into the BBC, having been the first (sometimes still only) reviewer of many of her works, but I feel like she's exploded back into readership in the last couple years. Seemingly a GR word-of-mouth success story.)

Nate D wrote: "Kavan is someone I was always on the verge of entering into the BBC,"

Two options. If you look closely you'gg find the two Folders (probably not showing on the front page anymore) :: something about BURIED Books by KNOWN Authors and one about BURIED Then, Knot BURIED Now. Which ever you think is adequate -- the latter one if, like Moby-Dick, her books either went into dormancy or just never got read from the beginning (until now).

Oh, I know about both those categories, they're just much less urgent than the genuine burials, such as the Themersons whose thread I'm misdirecting.