Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: pallbearers, freelance
Number of Pages: 155
Published: 1999-09
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1564782255
ISBN-13: 9781564782250

Ishmael Reed’s electrifying first novel zooms readers off to a land they have never heard of, a crazy, ominous kingdom called HARRY SAM--a never-never land so weirdly out-of-whack that only reality itself could be stranger. Venturing into this risky realm of a thousand contradictions is the quixotic Bukka Doopeyduk, a crusading, liberal fellow who is eager--if not always ready--to face the dangers of life. And dangers abound. Jousting and colliding with a macabre carousel of cops and beatniks, Elks and Black Muslims, he suffers a series of cockeyed misfortunes--maddening, saddening, and

Author: David Antin
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: archive, dalkey, literature, american, talking
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2001-05
List price: $12.50
ISBN-10: 1564782719
ISBN-13: 9781564782717

TALKING bridges the stylistic gap betweem David Antin’s early experimental poems and the "talk poems" for which he is most well-known. Combining one poem with two improvisations and his first published talk-poem, TALKING is a unique book that cannot be classified as solely poetry, fiction or criticism. Infusing the lyricism of poetry with the compelling pull of the spoken voice, this collection is a testament to David Antin’s reputation as one of the most influential artists of the contemporary era.

Author: Warren F. Motte
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: fiction, french, novel, fables
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 2003-02
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1564782840
ISBN-13: 9781564782847

Readers of the contemporary novel in France are witnessing the most astonishing reinvigoration of narrative prose since the New Novel of the 1950s. In the last few years, bold, innovative, and richly compelling novels have been written by a variety of young writers. These texts question traditional strategies of character, plot, theme, and message, and demand new strategies of reading. Choosing ten novels published during the 1990s as examples of this trend, Warren Motte here traces the resurgence of the novel in France. He argues that each of the novels under consideration here, quite apart f

Authors:Michel Butor, Richard Howard,
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: literature, french, mobile
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 2004-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 156478343X
ISBN-13: 9781564783431

Authors:Max Frisch, Geoffrey Skelton; translator,
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: holocene, man
Number of Pages: 113
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $12.50
ISBN-10: 1564784665
ISBN-13: 9781564784667

A stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs a powerful vision of our place in the world by combining the banality of an aging man’s lonely inner life and the objective facts he finds in the books of his isolated home. As a rainstorm rages outside, Max Frisch’s protagonist, Geiser, watches the mountain landscape crumble beneath landslides and flooding, and speculates that the town will be wiped out by the collapse of a section of the mountain. Seeking refuge from the storm in town, he makes his way through a difficult and dangerous mountain pass, only to abandon his ori

Author: Gilbert Sorrentino
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: pastoral, blue
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 2000-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1564782514
ISBN-13: 9781564782519

"I see him now! Somewhere out there in that gloaming that we call the Past that Time forgot--his ratty beard and frizzy hair, his hearty grease sandwiches, his rusted bicycle clips. An unlikely hero, your good faces seem to say. . . ." And so we meet our hero Serge ("Blue") Gavotte, a modern-day Candide who quits his job, mounts a piano atop a broken-down pushcart and sets off with wife and child on a visionary quest across contemporary America in search of the "Perfect Musical Phrase." From the dismal plains of the Midwest to the technicolor sunsets of the Southwest, Blue refuses to let fi

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: brigge, laurids, malte, notebooks
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2008-10-20
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1564784975
ISBN-13: 9781564784971

First published in Paris in 1910, Rilke’s Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches. This new translation by Burton Pike is a reaction to overly stylized previous translations, and aims to capture not only the beauty but also the strangeness, the spirit, of Rilke’s German.