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Two Novels: The Stony Heart and B/Moondocks (Collected Early Fiction 1949-1964, Volume 4)

Two Novels: The Stony Heart and B/Moondocks by Arno Schmidt
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“It's quite clear : an outsider can, on principle, only value foreign literature that translates well; the truly great artists of language and the fecund experimenters are inaccessible to him; are usually unknown to him in fact !”
― Arno Schmidt, Two Novels: The Stony Heart and B/Moondocks

tags: buried-shit, in-translation, nobel-prize-for-literature

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