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"Department of Slight Confusion." In Book: A Miscellany. No. 3, edited by Leo Bensemann & Denis Glover. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1941. (collected in the unpublished The Cactus Sign)
"New Zealand: An Answer to an Inquiry." Horizon VIII, no. 45, 1943, 153–61.
"The Big Bang." In Modern Short Stories, edited by Denys Val Baker. London: Staples & Staples, 1943. (collected in Five Months Further / Anna Kavan's New Zealand)
"Two New Zealand Pieces." In Choice, edited by William Sansom. London: Progressive Publishing, 1946. (presumably collected in Five Months Further / Anna Kavan's New Zealand)
"Brave New Worlds" In Horizon, edited by Cyril Connolly. London, 1946. Subtitled "The Professor".
"The Red Dogs." In Penguin New Writing, Vol. 37, edited by John Lehmann. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.
Also in: In Pleasures of New Writing: An Anthology of Poems, Stories, and Other Prose Pieces from the Pages of New Writing, edited by John Lehmann. London: John Lehmann, 1952.
"Edge of Panic." In Vogue, 1 October 1971, 75–83.
All of the Horizon material, including Kavan's reviews of the likes of Woolf and Huxley, can be found in a trove of PDFs here.

"The Cactus Sign." Typescript of proposed anthology of short stories with handwritten revisions:
"The Cactus Sign." p1-9.
"Lions Don't Live in China." p10-14.
"America's Wonderful. p15-20. (See also 2:3)
"Facing Up to Reality." p21-23.
"Some of the Things That Happen." p24-28.
"Memory of Maccassar." p29-32. (See also 2:6)
"Sorry I Can't Do Anything." p33-40.
"As Near As I Got to China." p41-47. (See also 2:4)
"Honey Don't You Mind." p48-54.
"Lonely Unholy Shore." p55-58.
"Department of Slight Confusion." p59-60.
"We Know All the Answers." p61-70.
"No More Roseate Views of the Tropics." p71-76.
"The Pain, the Island, Sweet Lady." p77-81.
"Subjects of General Interest." p82-87.
"Lord Have Mercy On Us." p88-91.
"Lover and Friend Hast Thou Put Far From Me and Mine Acquaintance Into Darkness." p92-108.
"One of the Hot Spots." p109-116.
"A Day in Batavia." p117-131. (See also 2:5)
"As Long As You Realize." p132-139.
"In Short I Was Afraid." p140-144.
"The Bank." p145-148.
"The Hotel." p149-153.
"The Lion." p154-158.
"The Hour." p159-161.
"Thinking About Sumatra." p162-167.
"There's Lovely." p168-172.
"The Second Tuesday." p173-177.
"Twelve Thousand Miles of It." p178-186.
"The Atom of God Near Balboa." p187-196.
"We Know the Boys Will Bring Us Our Joys." p197-208.

Jennifer Sturm's biography / collection Anna Kavan’s New Zealand), which is pretty expensive at present.
In addition to 54 pages of biographical material by Sturm (her doctorate thesis, I believe), it would seem that she has reproduced and made available the 18 autobiographical stories comprising the previously unpublished Kavan collection Five Months Further, composed in New Zealand from September 1942 to January 1943.
From the Kavan archive at the University of Tulsa:
"Five Months Further." Typed of proposed anthology of short stories with handwritten revisions:
3:7 "September." p280-301.
"The Voice of the Imagination." p302-306.
"The Man With Two Faces." p307-309.
"Any Day." p310-316.
"October." p317-322.
"Waitahanui Society." p323-237.
"Interval, Evans the Milk, O.H.M.S." p338-345.
"Labor Day." p346-352.
"November." p353-359.
"Rather Kafka." p360-369.
"Another Ending." p370-385.
"December." p386-404.
"Pacific." p405-408.
"The Big Bang." p409-413.
"Change At Colon." p414-423.
"Christmas Convoy." p424-449.
"January." p450-459.
"Losing the North." p460-475.
Apr 26, 2013 11:35AM

Coleman Dowell - Island People
Now buried, but as dense and broad-reaching and experience-inclusive as anything necessitating Great Books inclusion.
Ann Quin - Tripticks
Tangled mass of televised modern meltdown and american experience that pioneered literary collage techniques and very much warrants many closer looks.
Anna Kavan - Ice
Though enjoying a massive resurgence lately (at least on GR), I still don't think it's given up all of its secrets and resonances yet. And a key moment in the evolution of subjective narrators in lit, I believe.
Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl
Lest we ignore the world beyond Europe and the Americas, here's a key work of Persian modernism that prefigures the nouvelle roman in many ways.
Agota Kristof - The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
A devastating phantasmagoria of the mid-20th century Europe, and of the inability of words and narrative to contain the truths at the heart of experience.
Samuel Delany - Dhalgren
All of Delany's science fiction is deft and urgent, the breadth and depth of his concerns and post-modern complexity make this a masterwork (admittedly, already a blockbuster compared to these others though)
Leonora Carrington - The Stone Door
Sprawling across time despite its fairy-tale concision, this is my favorite surrealist novel and a book deserving of much more study than it receives.
Bruno Schulz - The Messiah
An entirely lost work that I hope will have been re-found and canonized in the next century.
Apr 25, 2013 09:26PM

But sorry to be a complainer -- I still like seeing these, and hope you keep em coming.
Apr 23, 2013 09:16PM



really is beautiful. And a pretty drastically buried book as well, compared to his arguably more perfectly constructed but less mesmerizing A Minor Apocalypse.


I guess Surrealist Novels is something I'm going to try to hit pretty hard even though some of them are going to be awful, inevitably.




I was back today photographing even more inventive type-setting from untranslated Maurice Roche novels, none of which had ever been checked out, and none of which even had goodreads pages til I added one for CodeX (with more pictures).




Spoilered due to being sort of NSFW:
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So this is Schmidt's last completed novel in 1975, the third of his three mega-works, Abend mit Goldrand, Evening Edged in Gold, the first of John E. Woods' Schmidt translations in 1980. It was hidden in the back of the fifth floor of the annex of the Bowdoin College Library in Brunswick, Maine, enormous, something like 24x14 inches (see the glasses for size), checked out only once since it was acquired, filled with even weirder layouts than School for Atheists. I have no idea where I'll ever see another copy of it, certainly not for long enough to actually read it.["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>
