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

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

heh heh. Only four more to go.... then Last Stories hits.

Woods re:Arno um the 100th B;day and the completion of Bottom's Dream ::

Der begehrliche Wortarbeiter :: Pünktlich zum 100. Geburtstag von Arno Schmidt ist «Zettel's Traum» zum ersten Mal übersetzt worden. Über die Herausforderung, dieses Opus magnum in eine andere Sprache zu übertragen, den Genuss, Schmidt zu lesen, und die Fallstricke der Bewunderung gibt der amerikanische Übersetzer John E. Woods Auskunft.

http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/feuilleton/...

And the first words=which you will read of Bottom's Dream ::

«(? -: a tall phello – (? : green leather jacket, brown trousers) – stroll'D past/on): ‹Lovely=mild air, Herr PaschnSchdecher – › / (? – : kiss my ass=man !). – a sandybrown thread across the watch=face ?»


Any discussion about the future of the publishing world will have to involve the question of who and how will pub BD/ZT. Or perhaps this will simply be pressed by Bargfeld's own. May be that there be no other option....

Dipanjan wrote: "Hi! I'm new to this group."

Dipanjan -- there is a complementary thread for Schmidt over at The BURIED Book Club. I tend to post my Schmidt stuff over there. You are most welcome to join.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Dipanjan wrote: "Hi! I'm new to this group. You may already know this, thought I'd post the link here;it seems John E. Woods has, at last finished translating Zettels Traum:"

Es ist vollbracht!!

[welcome, Dpanjan, and thnks for the Nachrichten]

Looking for a reason to read ALLE of Schmidt in 2014? He turns 100 Jahre=Alt on January 18.

I'll do it ; just 2 volumes of Novel(las), the atheism pedagogy, and a good excuse to hand myself an evening mit Goldrand. [at least for Anglo=availability // the rest is hard on the wallet]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "And thanks for the encouragement!"

I could see myself stuck in the nineteenth century just as I'm stuck now in the postmodern century. Would love to sign-up when that particular bug starts to bite!

Nate D wrote: "Not actually me back there, but Elizabeth!"

Fix'd and thanks.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Is anyone interested in a group dedicated specifically to Balzac, Zola, or Trollope?"

: ) I just read a comment from John Barth about these three and similar such -; as having written essentially a single mega=meganovel ;; which is the way I approach the completionism thing, the totality of a given author's work constitutes a single work, what Zappa calls a "conceptual continuity." So I have a tendency to organize my reading in my head according to authoriship -- and very much like the idea of Balzac, Zola, Trollope, or etc groups ; although they are not the thing I am specifically interested in at the moment. My Author groups I created out of my own feeling that goodreads lacked a manner of organizing books the way I organize books -- I'd say go ahead and start up the groups for your own purposes and see who flocks. I have little doubt that your spark will turn into a little more than a little something.

To be kept busy enough completing the Woods=Schmidt body of word=translation.

The Egghead Republic - 1979 (Die Gelehrtenrepublik, trans. Michael Horovitz)
Evening Edged in Gold - 1980 (Abend mit Goldrand, 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)

My scorecard ::

Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
Inviting the Muses: Stories, Essays, Reviews
Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
The Collected Poems of Marguerite Young
Marguerite Young, Our Darling: Tributes and Essays

gr Group for all things Ms Young :: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Marguerite Young does not have a large number of books, but she has one very large, intimidating book, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. I plan to have read all of her prose by the end of 2014.

Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
Inviting the Muses: Stories, Essays, Reviews
Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

Poetry (looong out of print)
Prismatic Ground
Moderate Fable and Other Poems
The Collected Poems of Marguerite Young
I will read her poetry should it ever surface.

And something I know nothing about :: Nothing but the Truth -- almost certainly trash data as is common on gr.

And for the interested person, I've started a Young reading group, focusing on reading Miss MacIntosh in 2014. https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

thegift wrote: "Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Bergson "

If you've read Sartre's thing on dialectical reason and his thing on Flaubert, color me impressed!!

Amy wrote: "Hey, Nathan "N.R." - What do you think about including various forewords and Intros written by Coover?"

For Completionism I hold to the humble standard of merely all that's published in book form, under the name Coover. So stuff by him in other people's books is just dainties, but delicious none the less. Same for short stories ;; until they are assembled in bookform, and most of his will be next year, they are not Completionist-necessary.

But for bibliography, see :: Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page.

I would like to take this opportunity to BUMP Nate D's list just a few comments above this one (that I'm writing right here) :: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I picked up a trio of Reed. 'spite having still to this morning read not word one, I'll maybe throw in for completionism of the novels. Why not? They're short ; they look like fun ; and Larry's got two of 'em on his 100-List. Should anyone find anything indispensable from the above "Poetry, Plays, and Non-Fiction", please do let us know.

Anthony wrote: "What is the low down on Moore's beef with Dalkey?"

I don't know any specifics. Rumors would be all that I've got ; and I think those rumors would belong to my growing output of fiction. But whatever the beef was, it didn't get in the way of the Moore-edited/Dalkey-published Gaddis letters.

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Reallyreally looking forward to Moore's second volume this fall. THAT should be consisting of some serious UNEARTHING. "

Yes. Volume II is quite bulk'd with books. Lots and lots and lots.

For record keeping purposes, Friend Aubrey has converted the above list into a Listopia List. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

Amy wrote: "Clearly I have plenty of Coover novel reading to do! But here's my list so far."

Nothing to sneeze at. Do you plan completionization sometime in 2014 or 2015?

Amy knows this already, but be there lurkers who don't ; Robert Coover's Fable Land is now open and sending forth wide streams of promiscuous invitations :: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Jonathan wrote: "a sin against the Gods of Great Novels"

ditto for a few others on that list.

Flann's been haunting me since my early days on goodreads ;; my only excuse...I'm waiting for the complete/collected Flann to fall in my hands. That strategy is not working.

1,3,4,&7 have been and will continue to be on my urgent-education list. Most of the rest are "about time I heard about these."