The BURIED Book Club discussion

Two other pieces of trivia ::

That Incubus novel is trans'd by William Weaver, a name familiar to all readers of Italian post-mod.

An Italian edition of that same novel was discovered with an Introduction by Carlo Emilio Gadda, whose novel is so good and so postmodern..... that, Why I've not read it too yet.

So, just two more names in addition to "Svevo".

......for those with a shopping mood today, it's cheap @ abe :: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Searc...

Nathan "N.R."That Incubus novel is trans'd by William Weaver, a name familiar to all readers of Italian post-mod."

Serves as its own glowing recommendation for the work.

Ronald wrote: "Serves as its own glowing recommendation for the work."

I'm on a rec-by-translator kick.

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "I'm on a rec-by-translator kick."

It's in large part as useful as rec-by-publisher; actually probably more so, as the time-commitment by the translator is so much greater. I suppose, for the same reason, it's much more limited though.

Ronald wrote: "I suppose, for the same reason, it's much more limited though. "

For BURIED purposes, that short catalogue (compared with a publisher's catalogue) is an advantage -- that unread/BURIED book trans'd by the same translator as Popular Book X ;; for instance, John E Woods from Thomas Mann to Arno Schmidt -- that kind of path is valuable.

I got a tip about this group and I came to check it out, and then I thought, 'I wonder if they've unburied Guiseppe Berto yet or not,' and here he is. That and I even find a link to my Amazon review for the book, which is still the only review there for it (which is a shame, but I'm not too high on Amazon anymore, which is how I made my way here.)

So anyway, it's flattering to see I was briefly important enough to be a link--but Berto's good, at least in Incubus, or in Il Male Oscuro, if you tongue happens to twist that way. One of my favorites.

hello, i just read Incubus by this fella which is really cool and would probably be of interest to fans of Thomas Bernhard or other european writers who like to obsess over things in long sentences.