In the news . . .
Listen to Best European Fiction editor Aleksandar Hemon on BBC 4 Radio's "Open Book" here . . .
Best European Fiction 2010 is featured in Time Magazine . . .
The Wall Street Journal features Best European Fiction 2010 . . . and the anthology is reviewed at Bookslut . . . Time Out Chicago . . . 3:AM Magazine . . . Newcity Lit . . . The Financial Times . . . the Hipster Book Club . . . Paste Magazine . . .
The New York Times interviews editor Aleksandar Hemon about Best European Fiction 2010 . . . Hemon is also interviewed on PRI's World Books . . . and at Omnivoracious . . .
Dalkey Archive is featured in "Bookmakers" in this month's Booklist. Read that and a starred review of Best European Fiction 2010 on our Facebook page . . . see also this piece at Publishers Weekly . . .
Stig Saeterbakken's Siamese is reviewed and selected as an "Editor's Choice" at The New York Times . . .
Mati Unt's Brecht at Night is a "Bookseller's Choice" at the Barnes and Noble Review (scroll down) . . .
The Book of Jokes and Siamese are reviewed in the latest issue of Bookslut . . .
Another great review of Gert Jonke's System of Vienna is up at The Front Table . . .
Coastline Journal has posted an early review of the forthcoming Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde . . .
Jean Snook wins the ACF Translation Prize for her translation of Gert Jonke's The Distant Sound, which will be published in the Spring . . .
Christine Montalbetti's Western has been chosen as one of MPIBA's "Reading the West" books for December . . . and gets a good review at the Feminist Review . . .
Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire reviewed at The Indpendent . . .
Shelf Awareness reviews Gonçalo M. Tavares's Jerusalem . . .
A good piece on Gert Jonke's System of Vienna, forthcoming in December . . . and two great reviews at at The Collagist . . . and The Millions . . .
A great review of Andrzej Stasiuk's Fado at PopMatters . . . and another at The Complete Review . . .
A fantastic review of Mieko Kanai's The Word Book at Baltimore City Paper . . .
Reviews of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's Running Away are coming in . . . see The Front Table . . . Words Without Borders . . . The Complete Review . . . PopMatters . . . and The Independent . . .
An early review of Stig Saeterbakken's Siamese at RALPH . . . and another great piece at 3:AM Magazine . . .
Michal Ajvaz's The Other City has been named a "Top 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy" book at Amazon.com . . .
Christine Montalbetti's Western reviewed at Belletrista . . .
Damion Searls's story collection, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, reviewed at Rain Taxi . . .
A review of Stanley Crawford's The Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine at The Second Pass . . .
Listen to an interview with Ishmael Reed, whose The Plays is out now, on KDVS (jump to 1:04:00 for the interview) . . .
A review of Andrzej Stasiuk's Fado and an interview with Susan Jill Levine (whose Subversive Scribe is available now) in the latest issue of Words Without Borders . . .
An early review of Gert Jonke's The System of Vienna at The Collagist . . .
A discussion of Dragomoshchenko's Dust . . .
Op Oloop is reviewed at The Believer (only an excerpt is viewable online) . . .
Michael Silverblatt interviews contributors to the Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction on Bookworm . . .
A nice review of Jacques Jouet's Savage at Bomb . . .
The new issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Melville's ; or the Whale, edited by
Damion Searls, is featured on the London Review Blog . . . read an
interview with Searls at The Quarterly Conversation . . .
Momus's The Book of Jokes is getting rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic . . . see the L.A. Times and The Guardian . . . see also Front Table . . . and here . . .
An early look at Ornela Vorpsi's The Country Where No One Ever Dies at The Collagist . . .
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão's Anonymous Celebrity featured on NPR's Fresh Air . . .
An early look at Mieko Kanai's extraordinary collection The Word Book, due out in October . . .
The new Quarterly Conversation features reviews of Toussaint's Running Away (due out in November) and del Paso's News from the Empire, as well as an excerpt from Suzanne Jill Levine's wonderful book on translation, The Subversive Scribe, due out in October . . .
Boyd Tonkin on the Free Word Centre, opened this week in London . . . see also the article in the Guardian . . .
Juan Goytisolo, whose revised Juan the Landless is now available, profiled in the Independent . . .
Christine Montalbetti's Western reviewed in the new Bookforum . . .
If you're a Facebook person: Dalkey Archive now has a page . . . and you can follow us on Twitter . . .
A great review of Mati Unt's Brecht at Night in the L.A. Times . . .
The latest review of Translation in Practice is at Words Without Borders . . . see also the review in New Pages . . .
Momus's The Book of Jokes in the Village Voice . . .
At The Rumpus, read "Poetics and Slaughter," from Andrzej Stasiuk's forthcoming Fado . . .
Ignacio de Loyola Brandao's Anonymous Celebrity reviewed at Public Radio International's World Books . . . See also the Complete Review . . . and the Howard County Times (scroll down). . .
The latest review of Juan Filloy's Op Oloop is at The Front Table . . . see also the Complete Review . . . And more on Filloy (Argentinian lawyer, boxing ref, caricaturist, palindromist, decagenarian) here . .
At Bomb, an interview (w/short audio clip) and podcast with Jacques Roubaud, on the publication of The Loop . . .
At the Guardian, a podcast of Damion Searls reading from What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going . . .
The Review of Contemporary Fiction's interview with Felipe Alfau rendered in claymation . . .
The Los Angeles Times's two-part interview with Dalkey Archive publisher John O'Brien, part 1 and part 2 . . . See also a follow up at Amazon's Omnivoracious blog . . .
The latest review of Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Normance is in the Los Angeles Times . . . see also the New Statesman . . .
The Complete Review gives an "A" to Georges Perec's "The Machine," included in the latest Review of Contemporary Fiction . . .
Nicholas Mosley in the Guardian . . . See also this interview in Standpoint . . .
We haven't officially announced our Fall 2009 list yet (we're still publishing our Spring 2009 list), but already the first title on it is getting attention, Momus's The Book of Jokes. Read about it in Interview and Dossier . . .
Our revised edition/new translation of Juan Goytisolo's Juan the Landless reviewed at Front Table . . .
More . . .
The pages presented here with the curt but comprehensive title of Savage, as well as an indication of their genre (novel), were not found, half mutilated, in the false bottom of a secret drawer, or in a privateer’s chest, hidden in the attic of some manor. The material in them wasn’t gleaned from the lips of a dying man anxious for his tale to enter an attentive ear. They weren’t rescued from the temporary obscurity to which I don’t know how many of my servile creatures—characters, despite themselves, in the following story, and pseudo-occupiers of its alleged appendices—might have wished to banish them.
These pages are rightfully mine, as far as they can be possessed, and there is no reason to delay my clear identification of myself as the author, once and for all—that is, simply to refer the reader back to the words on the cover of the work being held in her eager, if still hesitant, hands.
We exchange words of welcome . . . enchanté . . . pleased to meet you . . . We understand each other this way, and everyone plays his own uninterchangeable role. If my name is on the cover, the ex libris, on the inside, bears the name of the reader. I won’t reveal this name—with a little luck, there may be several. Yes, let’s tell...
