Nathan "N.R."’s Comments (group member since Sep 17, 2012)

Nathan "N.R."’s comments from the Completists' Club group.

Another German from whom I've read not word one, but all signals say Go! Now if only bookstores sold his books.

Couldn't turn up an English bibliography, but that would be appropriate, I'm sure, not much translated or in print.


Werkausgaben

Werke und Tagebücher in sieben Bänden. Mit einer Einleitung von Hans Mayer. Hrsg. von Th. Freeman und Th. Scheuffelen. Hamburg 1974
Werke in Einzelbänden (Hamburger Ausgabe). Hrsg. von Uwe Schweikert. Hamburg 1985 ff.


Prosa

Perrudja, Roman, 1. Teil 1929, 2. Teil unvollendet
Fluß ohne Ufer, Romantrilogie
Das Holzschiff, 1949, überarbeitete Fassung 1959
Die Niederschrift des Gustav Anias Horn nachdem er 49 Jahre alt geworden war, 1949/50
Epilog, aus dem Nachlass veröffentlicht 1961
Die Nacht aus Blei, Erzählung, 1956
Ugrino und Ingrabanien, Romanfragment, aus dem Nachlass veröffentlicht, 1968
Jeden ereilt es, Roman. Fragment aus dem Nachlass, 1968


Dramen

Pastor Ephraim Magnus, 1919
Die Krönung Richards III., 1921
Der Arzt / Sein Weib / Sein Sohn, 1922
Der gestohlene Gott, 1924
Medea (Tragödie), 1926. 2. Fassung 1959
Neuer Lübecker Totentanz (zusammen mit Werner Helwig), 1931
Straßenecke, 1931
Armut, Reichtum, Mensch und Tier, 1933, 2. Fassung 1948
Spur des dunklen Engels, 1952
Thomas Chatterton (Tragödie), 1955
Die Trümmer des Gewissens, entstanden 1959, uraufgeführt 1961


Auswahlbände

Dreizehn nicht geheure Geschichten, Erzählungen, Hamburg 1954
Eine Auswahl aus dem Werk. Mit einer Einleitung von W. Muschg. Freiburg i. Br. 1959
Das Hans Henny Jahnn Lesebuch. Hrsg. von U. Schweikert. Hamburg 1984


Sonstiges

Beiträge zur Kulturzeitschrift Der Kreis
Das Recht der Tiere. Weihnachtsappell 1956.


I may find myself supplying a few English titles in the future. Meanwhile, goodreads has a database which should take of those kinds of concerns.


wikipedia.de:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hen...

Bunch of stuff (auf Englisch):
http://kebadkenya.blogspot.com/

Friend Nate D may be the only reader in my goodreads circle who has made even the slightest dent in Schmidt's oeuvre. But the existence of Zettels Traum and its forthcoming translation by John E. Woods (forthcoming for how long yet to come?) as Bottom's Dream speaks to the reading of any and everything by Herr Schmidt. Dalkey's got four volumes of collected material available which should work as a suitable entry point. Many items, such as Zettels Traum itself, are neigh on inexistent even in German, to say nothing about translations.

German

Leviathan - stories, 1949
Brand's Haide - novel, 1951
Schwarze Spiegel - novel, 1951
Aus dem Leben eines Fauns - novel, 1953
Die Umsiedler - prose studies, 1953
Das steinerne Herz - novel, 1954
Die Gelehrtenrepublik - novel, 1957
Dya na sore - dialogues, 1958
Fouqué und einige seiner Zeitgenossen - biography, 1958
Rosen und Porree - stories, 1959
KAFF auch Mare Crisium - novel, 1960
Belphegor - dialogues, 1961
Sitara und der Weg dorthin - biography, 1963
Nobodaddy's Kinder - 1963; collects Aus dem Leben eines Fauns, Brand's Haide, Schwarze Spiegel
Kühe in Halbtrauer - stories, 1964
Die Ritter vom Geist - dialogues, 1965
Trommler beim Zaren - stories, 1966
Seelandschaft mit Pocahontas - stories, 1966
Der Triton mit den Sonnenschirm - dialogues, 1969
Zettels Traum - novel, 1970
Die Schule der Atheisten - novel, 1972
Abend mit Goldrand - novel, 1975
Alexander oder, Was ist Wahrheit - stories, 1975
Krakatau - story, 1975
Julia, oder die Gemälde - novel (unfinished), 1983

English Translations

The Egghead Republic - 1979 (Die Gelehrtenrepublik, trans. Michael Horovitz)
Evening Edged in Gold - 1980 (Abend mit Goldrand, trans. John E. Woods)
Scenes from the Life of a Faun - 1983 (Aus dem Leben eines Fauns, trans. John E. Woods)

**Collected Early Fiction, 1949-1964, in four volumes from Dalkey Archive (all trans. John E. Woods):
Collected Novellas - 1994 (includes Woods' translation of Gelehrtenrepublik as Republica Intelligentsia, previously translated by Michael Horovitz as The Egghead Republic, 1979)
Nobodaddy's Children - 1995 (includes a revision of Wood's 1983 translation of Faun)
Collected Stories - 1996
Two Novels (The Stony Heart & B/Moondocks) - 1997 (Das steinerne Herz & KAFF auch Mare Crisium)

Radio Dialogs I - 1999 (trans. John E. Woods)
The School for Atheists - 2001 (Die Schule der Atheisten, trans. John E. Woods)
Radio Dialogs II - 2003 (trans. John E. Woods)
Bottom's Dream - forthcoming (Zettels Traum, trans. John E. Woods)


The Dalkey Archive page:
http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/search/?...

The wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Sch...

wikipedia.de, which provides a better deutsche Bibliographie:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Sch...

Barth gets completionized some time in the next month or two. Only the last two slim volumes to go.

MJ wrote: "^ An invaluable resource, gracias."

Thanks. My completionist impulse requires that I provide myself with some kind of skeletal frame work for sorting through an author's total output. When I discovered that Vollmann was genius it took me several months of scratching and digging before I had a grip on what it was he was about and how his works relate among themselves. I've recently gotten several Q's about Barth's books, whose result is the above skeleton. Barth's own essays were quite helpful in sorting and arranging their twin-ings, etc.

The further comment, apropos nothing, regarding Barth being a one-trick pony--among a subset of his books, the accusation is perhaps compelling, but for the most part, across his career, that "trick" is nothing more than his Barthian voice, much as is the case with any author worth reading (cf. Paul's comments about what is holy about Barth).

Of possible interest to Barth readers and completionists, I've created a thumbnail sketch of his books and their various twin-pairings, attempting a comparative overview of his career, within my Tidewater Tales review:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Aloha wrote: "Nathan, I'll tackle Finnegan's if you'll retackle GEB."

Do you remember making this commitment, Aloha? I've knocked off GEB. Time for you to fit The Wake into your 2013 schedule somewhere?

Lisa wrote: "No one is looking at the discussion I started about this on the page for The Floating Opera, so I thought I'd check with you completists."

I couldn't find that discussion. But, no, I've not read that first ending. I would count it as non-canonical because it was produced under duress. My assumption is that the non-nihilist ending (I can't call it the 'original' because the original ending is what was restored in the 1967 edition and reprinted in all subsequent editions) exists only in the first hardcover of 1956 and the paperback of 1963. But now that you've reminded me of this little textual deviation, I'll have to keep my eye out for one of those early editions.

Lobstergirl wrote: "There's so little else up in there. "

There's that, too. ; )

Lobstergirl wrote: "I hadn't planned to go. I've only read one or two novels."

Do please go. You might find it having been worthwhile with the next novel of his you read. At any rate, it's a feather in your literary hat.

Tej wrote: "Yikes! I think I'd rather re-read Ulysses and give up on the Wake. I'm just not that ambitious! Thanks for the feedback, though."

There's no need to commit to the whole thing; a paragraph or page here and there. It wouldn't qualify for completism, but who needs that? Read or unread, The Wake is nice artifact to have around. Meanwhile, Ulysses is preeminently re-readable.

Pete wrote: "You can download the Kindle for your computer for free (at least, you c..."

A Friend recently provided me with some kind of multi-platform e-reader, so my defenses have begun to crumb. Thanks for the tip about the free Kindle software as well. I will very likely pick up a copy of Zone before too long.

I am very interested in getting to Europe Central in the next year's time. I've been intrigued by some of the comments I've read which give it a thorough trashing because I have a tendency to believe that those trashings are completely wrong. ; )

Aloha wrote: " and is in a more chatty format."

We'll have to skip that one, then. ; )

Aloha wrote: "Nathan, I'll tackle Finnegan's if you'll retackle GEB."

I might consider it. I think I ditched my copy a few years back. But it's possible that a Relative may still have it. Have you read his Strange Loop book? My understanding is that he wrote that one because many folks missed the argument he was trying to make in GEB.

Tej wrote: " But after reading Finnegans Wake, I want two weeks of my life back. I read a readers guide to it and didn't even understand that! Yes, there are lovely passages but what the fuck does it mean?!!! Am I just supposed to take some acid and enjoy the ride, or is it possible to understand this at some conscious level? Please enlighten me, those of you who enjoy it! "

I'm mid-course. You'll need two years rather than two weeks. I'm reading it with the Annotations by McHugh which is terribly fascinating. I'm re-reading each paragraph at least four times each, over the course of reading. I average a page every 45-60 minutes, 4-5 pages per reading session. The only additional book I've read is Our Exagmination, which is very helpful. I'm at page 100, 5 chapter in, and I absolutely adore it. It is genius.

My caution is that you won't understand what it means until you've figured out how it works. And that question has taken me two months to feel at all confident about. Not everyone likes to read books like this. I love them. Please stay in touch if you'd like to give The Wake another go one day.

MJ wrote: "I WILL READ ALL THESE NEXT YEAR."

YEP. I've only got four (?) knocked off, but he is clearly in my completist file.

I've got five down and the rest to go. Will do.

Readness:
Baseball
Gerald
Movie night
Lucky
Pricks

Next is The Public Burning which will be the final volume of my original encyclopedic novel list. Pinocchio and John's Wife are on my shelf.

Dzanc is also publishing a sequel to Brunists next year along with the catalog re-issue.

I'm still waiting for that RCF volume. Still.

Aloha wrote: "I'd like to get to Ulysses, too. My reading plan looks covered until 2014. Any chance of pairing it with Women & Men?"

Ulysses, with Blamires, is a breeze next to Women & Men. But if Ali's doing both The Wake & W&M &. . . it could be done. Myself, I usually trying to restrain myself to one head-cracker at a time.

I've got Ulysses knocked off and 100 pages of The Wake. Somewhere Back In Time I must have read some/most of Dubliners (will be re-read) and Portrait (will be re-read) when I was capable mostly only of reading Catcher in the Rye. But a year from now when I've finished The Wake, there seems little reason to not go back and mop up the rest of that Joyce Ellman spilled on the floor.