Jerzy Peterkiewicz

[MJ]

A Polish poet and novelist who came to my attention as the husband of Christine Brooke-Rose. He wrote eight experimental novels in the 50s and 60s, all of them so BURIED it hurts.

His wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Pi...

Novels:


The Knotted Cord (1953)
Loot and Loyalty (1955)
Future To Let (1958)
Isolation: a novel in five acts (1959)
The Quick and the Dead (1961)
That Angel Burning at My Left Side (1963)
Inner Circle (1966)
Green Flows the Bile (1969)

[Nate D]

How did you even hear about him and come into a copy of the Inner Circle, Ali?

[Nathan "N.R."]

And here's a strange gig for a BURIED novelist to get :: Translator to the Pope ::
http://www.amazon.com/Easter-Vigil-Ot...

[MJ]

Thanks Ali. I took Future to Let out the library and will attend to it soon.

A quick glance at the markets shows me that Green Flows the Bile (his worst book, according to CB-R), and Isolation are still available cheaply.

[MJ]

I added his missing books. I'm having trouble adding Green Flows the Bile, since it seems to share an ISBN with Dick Francis's Driving Force, and all sorts of buyer confusions have no doubt sprung up with all the people desperately seeking copies of Jerzy's last book but getting an English sporting comedy instead.

[Nate D]

You've clearly never read any Dick Francis, he only writes equine-related noir.

[MJ]

Nate D wrote: "You've clearly never read any Dick Francis."

Guilty.