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Do you ever plan on discussing the school for atheists? I find it really weird how despite being the only one of Schmidt's typoscripts which is still readily available in English it also seems to be the only one of his works which virtually no one talks about.

Great episode!!! Which are the translators that you mentioned in the Dalkey section? Greetings from Chile

I’m currently halfway through this novel and after loving it for the first few hundred pages, I’m starting to find myself now entering a sort of love-hate kind of mood with it (which is more a comment on my experience and expectations than some sort of essentialist comment on the novel itself, but still). I think the thing is that I want more of the substance of the novel’s themes and perhaps less of the back-and-forth kind of ‘antics’ of the novel, which I do enjoy, but I think I was expecting (or hoping for) the prose of these things to be a little more Pynchonian in its own way, where as instead I’m finding it a little more sci-fi in how it feels. Don’t get me wrong, it’s superbly written - I just think my expectations were skewed going into it. Will persevere, of course.

Are there more videos coming?

I started it last night and can't put it down! The complexity of the book has not made it unenjoyable to me so far, something that I can't say for Gravity's Rainbow, since you brought it up. I got slight vibes of the Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem.

Instant subscribe! Great video 🔥

"100 pounds of analysis out of a 10 pound book" ROASTED

Basically this whole video is making me realize David Foster Wallace is a chumpppppp!!! Way, WAY more trippy shit out there. Definitely want to try Bottoms Dream

Any shot someone could tell me what the title of that beautiful book with the concentric circles on the spine is?

WASTE: any plans to review Finnegans Wake? Maybe you’ve done that already. Another beast of a book. Definitely worth reading. Much harder than Ulysses but far more rewarding 💥

Thank you ❤ . >> dopamine hit for ya 🔥

Nobodaddy needs that! Lol!

Any advice on where to look for vol. 4 two novels? It’s not just that it’s pricey, but I can’t find it for sale online anywhere. I can find copies of ZT and Evening edged in gold, but not even one listing of Vol. 4.

Great channel.

I should really read Blindness (saw it on your shelf)

zettel's traum translated in english? i am dazed! that is really mindboggling. world could be worse... ❤

Seth, you are certainly not alone in your interest in Kafka's stories, letters and journals. Both Thom Jones and Lydia Davis have cited Kafka's diaries at some point in their writing careers. That is pretty good company if you asked me.

Hi. I've just found your channel, and there is a great deal of overlap in taste concerning prose between you and I. Krasznahoraki is one of the first modern writers in translation I fell in love with, and it was Satantango. It was the same month I discovered Roberto Bolano, both Murakamis, Caser Aira, Lispecter, Calvino, Borges, Knausgaard, Pavic, and so many others when I first became really excited by literature fifteen years ago - half a lifetime ago. I found your channel wondering if anybody was paying any attention to Krasznahorkai's writing. Thankfully, I found my answer to be yes: at least a few people are. W.A.S. indeed. What was which could have been is the "what was" which can still be. We do await in silence rather than for silence. More people need to talk about books like Krasznahorkai's on here. Not because we love it, or doing it, which of course we do on both accounts, but because it is important. In so many words: I love tupperware parties as much as the next socially-displaced housewife, but who wants to be launched in pursuit of an incoming silent empire, really?

22:40 La=bimmel, La=bammel, La=bumm 😊 Wonderful to learn that apparently an effective translation into English of Schmidt's work was actually possible (hats off to John E. Woods!). I have a bit of a feeling that „Bottom‘s Dream“ and the etym theory are a bit of a deterrent and so get in the way of people's perception of Schmidt. If Schmidt's incredible humor and wordplay from Woods also ignites in English, I can also only recommend the reading order for beginners: "Scenes from the Life of a Faun", "Dark Mirrors" and "Republica Intelligentsia". Once you're "in", it will also be a lot of fun with "B/Moondocks". In the late work I find "The School for Atheists" and "Abend mit Goldrand" (both without a first-person narrator, by the way) are great and I've only read parts of "Zettel's Traum" occasionally. I'm waiting for someone to make a reading book out of the best parts (there's already an attempt, but it obviously doesn't hit the best spots). ...and Schmidt as the inventor of emojis! Wonderful! 28:24 The German title ("eine MärchenPosse - 55 Szenen aus der Lä/e/Endlichkeit für Gönner der Verschreibk/Kunst") is nowhere near as explicit as the translated version (In "MärchenPosse" the "Po" (butt) is not orthographically emphasized, the different versions Ländlichkeit/Lendlichkeit/Endlichkeit, are "Country life", "Life of the hip" and "Finiteness").

You do a disservice to yourself, your audience and the books you review when you use curse words.

I can't believe I just watched that entire video lmfao subscribing now

Just did post a review for The Egghead Republic you might enjoy - glenncolerussell.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-egghead-republic-by-arno-schmidt.html

I'm Arnohooked! Thanks so much for pointing me to these fabulous novels. You gotta love all the word magic. The Republic Egghead is chock-full. From opening pages: Winer (great name for an American!!) - "and I had to present my papers immediately: identity card with photo, thumbprint, tooth structure, penis type." -- What are the types of penises on official record? Arno doesn't miss an opportunity to stick his satiric needle into the fleshy backsides of...well, everybody and everything.

Listened to you speak on Pynchon in a podcast - and it’s the best insight I’ve ever heard. Through it, I just learned about your channel. Are you planning on covering each of Pynchon’s works? I’d personally love to listen to them - and believe they would serve as a massive asset for anyone reading Pynchon.

Thanks for this! I'm gonna start my Arno Schmidt run. First up: The Egghead Republic, followed by the 4 novellas - N's Children, Life of a Faun, B's H & Dark Matter.

I haven't read this book but became interested when I heard there was a great work of surrealism called Solenoid. I wonder if the author knows of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in electromagnetism which experiments require well-insulated solenoids ..it seems like he's influenced by this odd quantum mechanical effect in which am isolated solenoid can affect the motion of charged particles outside of its confinement space.

André <3

Alexis Wright does it with Praiseworthy

Thanks so, so much for this incisive video, Seth. On the strength of your enthusiasm and insights, I look forward to Solenoid. Perhaps you are familiar - what you outline here reminds me of a Dalkey Press author, Czech Michal Ajvaz. I posted reviews on his 4 translated novels. Here's one you might enjoy - glenncolerussell.blogspot.com/2022/12/empty-streets-by-michal-ajvaz.html

I discovered Cartarescu through a chilean booktuber called Ricardo but then when I looked up the author online The Untranslated popped up first and it's just the amazing resource I found this year loved it

Thanks for this video. I've been putting off a more substantial engagement with Vollmann for years. The only thing I've read by him is Whores for Gloria, which I really liked, but the main reason for choosing it was that it's short. One of my reading goals for next year, though is to read some books by him next year I'm especially drawn to The Royal Family for what I understand to be its extensive focus on the intersection between poverty and social marginalization (especially of queerness and transgressive sexuality). So, I might start there, but before now the only descriptions of You Bright and Risen Angels I'd come across described it is mediocre Pynchon-aping. Your account of it, though, has whet my appetite! Based on how an understanding of queerness has become such a big focus of public discourse in the US, you'd think that Vollmann would be experiencing a Renaissance now. In the past, I've come across a lot of talk that describes him, in a roundabout way, as a perv because of how much he writes about the transgression of norms around gender and sex. Based on reading as well as excerpts from Poor People, though, my sense is that Vollmann simply has a deep love and compassion for socially marginalized people - including for those who are too beaten-down to be hailed as heroes. If you do more videos on Vollmann, I'd love to see your take on one of his books that really hones in on such folks - the aforementioned ones, or Lucky Star (another one high on my list), or even The Book of Dolores.

It must be exhausting knowing you’re incapable of saying anything remotely insightful or interesting about Schmidt, so you hide behind your pseudo-intellectual performance that gives the dullard at Better than Food a run for his money. Namely, needlessly long pretentious pauses, sitting next to your pristine bookcase full of littwitter approved books by losers who spend all day knowing they have money by taking pictures of recently acquired books, and speaking - via your terrible script - like a first year uni student who just discovered their macbook has a built-in thesaurus. “To combat, shall we say, the paucity of online discussion surrounding this particular author.”

To bring some owls to Athens - there's a great study about Russian/Soviet socialist realism: Katerina Clark (Yale) - The Soviet Novel: History As Ritual (3rd edition ISBN 978-0253060488) A truly fascinating read which has greatly enhanced (better: corrected) my understanding of this genre - the "realism" part of the term can be very misleading. I cannot recommend the book enough.

Okay you totally just sold me this book wow

Hi, I just discovered your channel and I'm impressed. Your review is amazing, I'm so happy you enjoyed Cărtărescu's book. I recommend reading Nostalgia, it is the best start to enter the magical world of Cărtărescu. I'm a native Romanian speaker, so I was lucky enough to read it in the original language, but the English translation is splendid. Thank you for your work in promoting quality literature. I greet you with love from Romania 🤗

really enjoying your work on schmidt, thanks! surprised to see melancholia and not solaris as the film referencing that photograph: ua-cam.com/video/ABIEQdBhpwA/v-deo.html of the two directors i'd bet tarkovsky is the more likely to know those photographs

I'm not even finished with the video yet but I can't help wonder, could there be any potential inspiration from the tunnel by William Gass?

I just started reading this. Stunning. BTW, your voice is perfection.

Hipsters really want books to tickle their balls don't they?

If anyone's interested, I've made some voice recordings from Animal Money, as well as other things by Cisco and other authors - here's a short passage from Animal Money, with some longer stuff (like Ethics) forthcoming :) ua-cam.com/video/74UwmN3mccU/v-deo.html

Superb video. Your productions are carefully crafted and clearly much work is going into these. Keep up the greatness! (also have you come across the work of Miklos Szentkuthy? Maybe he's of interest)

I’m about 150 pages into it right now. I’m reeling. I’m transformed already. I simply cannot fully comprehend what’s going on. I love it.

I hope you can read it in Romance someday, it's much better.

Love it, ordered Nobodaddy’s today online for 7 bucks used. Can’t wait for the rest of the Schmidt videos!

Thanks for the video. Hopefully Dalkey can get more Schmidt in print shortly, though their production schedules seem perpetually delayed. What's the book the the left of Devil House (I can read Cisco on the bottom)?

"farternoiser FW 530.36 n. One who makes the sound or noise of expelling gas or farting. This suggests the Our Father or Pater Noster. In Finnegans Wake, God’s voice through thunder can come across as a farting sound. (“A farternoiser for his tuckish armenities.”) The next sentence begins, “Ouhr Former who erred in having,” that brings in the Wake’s contention that God messed up big time when he created the heavens and the earth, what Joyce believed was the real Original Sin. In Ulysses, Joyce created the noise of Bloom’s fart on the sidewalk with “Kraaaaaa . . . Pprrpffrrppfff,” a hint of many more literary inventions to come within Finnegans Wake. This fart is famous as the place where a disgusted Virginia Woolf finally abandoned her reading of Joyce’s banned book. belchybubhub FW 239.33 n. Lucifer or Beelzebub violently shooting out or belching, most likely fire in Hell, with a great uproar or hubbub. (“oaths and screams and bawley groans with a belchybubhub and a hellabelow bedimmed and bediabbled the arimaining lucisphere”) McHugh translates “hellabelow” as “hullabaloo” and gives the Spanish diablo for “devil” in “bediabbled.” Joyce wrote one children’s book, The Cat and the Devil, for his much loved grandson, Stephen James Joyce. It paints a purrfect picture of “belchybubhub.” slumbwhere FW 580.15 n. Some place or somewhere to sleep or slumber. After draining the dregs of his customers’ glasses, HCE’s “slumbwhere” is, briefly, the floor of his pub. (“light in hand, helm on high, to peekaboo durk the thicket of slumbwhere, till their hour with their scene be struck for ever and the book of the dates he close”) For “durk,” as well as referring to “dark,” McHugh gives the German durch for “through.” He also points out that The Egyptian Book of the Dead is closed. murkblankered FW 612.22 adj. Appearing empty or blank from a covering or blanket of darkness, gloom, or murk. London was once famous for its enveloping fogs that gave the city a “murkblankered” appearance. (“beingtime monkblinkers timeblinged completamentarily murkblankered in their neutrolysis”) McHugh translates “beingtime” as “for the time being,” “monkblinkers” as “blinkered,” “completamentarily” as the Italian completamente for “completely,” “murkblandered” as “blankminded,” and “neutrolysis” as “electrolysis” and “neutrality.” allfaulters FW 355.35 n. All the mistakes or faults of God or Our Father. Joyce believed the real original sin (“original sinse”) was God’s creation of the universe, and James Atherton in The Books at the Wake writes that “attribution of Original Sin to God is one of the basic axioms of Finnegans Wake.” (“We all, for whole men is lepers, have been nobbut wonterers in that chill childerness which is our true name after the allfaulters”) McHugh provides the Danish Alfader for the god “Odin.” venerections FW 356.33 n. 1. reverences or venerations for things straight up or erections. The great success of drugs and devices to correct erectile dysfunctions pays tribute to our society’s “venerections” for things that are stiff and stand straight up. (“I have just been seeing, with my warmest venerectrions, of a timmersome townside upthecountrylifer”) The Wellington Monument in Dublin’s Phoenix Park is a venerection in granite to the Dublin-born duke. It certainly has phallic overtones throughout Finnegans Wake and is identified as Finn MacCool’s erect penis in the giant’s body spread under the Dublin landscape." -Bill Cole Cliett

I was searching for vollmann's books and here it is your magnificent channel. Chris has done an amazing job regarding vollmann bibliography. But with this book you have blown my mind away. Stunning review! Thank you very much. I hope you will review other vollmann' books ASAP!

Outside of experimental literary fiction, you touched on photography and the works of Lars Von Trier-photography being a subject I'm extremely interested in a consumer of pictures and owner of many art photobooks, and Von Trier being an auteur whose filmography fascinates me (I've watched Dogville dozens of times, though Breaking the Waves is my favorite of his films, and Melancholia I've seen only twice because of how depressed it makes me). Thanks for the work you do talking about great and enigmatic literature, Seth.

Excited about this. Have all four volumes of Dalkey and started digging in, but now… might dig in deeper. Count me in… Bottom’s Dream is on its way…