COLGR49: "ha, ha"

[Dave Monroe]

Seconding you on Nerval there.  See, e.g., ...

Chambers, Ross.  The Writing of Melancholy:
   Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism.
   U of Chicago P, 1993.

But what I really need is for somebody to publish a
translation of Chambers' L'ange et l'automate.  Or to
become fluent in French, I guess ...  

There's a small press called Exact Change doing the
Lord's work putting translations of all that proto- to
outright surrealist stuff back in print, inc. a
collection of Nerval's stories.  Now if they'd only
make Raymond Roussel's Locus Souls and Impressions of
Africa available in full.  Excerpts in an anthology
called How I Wrote Certain of My Books, but ...

http://www.subpop.com/bands/damon+naomi/website/xchange/xchange.html

Note Giorgio de Chirico's Hebdomeros there as well. 
But Leonora Carrington is a particular favorite, hope
they'll put out all those short stories Dutton had out
briefly a decade or so ago.  See also ...

Hustvedt, Asti, ed.  The Decadent Reader:
   Fiction, Fantasy and Perversion From Fin-De-Siecle
   France.  New York: Zone, 1998.

Matthews, J.H.  The Custom House of Desire:
   A Half-Century of Surrealist Stories.
   Berkeley: U of California P, 1989.

Okay, and back to ...

--- Doug Millison <DMillison at ftmg.net> wrote:
> Good stuff about Jarry, thanks.
> 
> Hard to beat the French for eccentric writers. One
> of my favorites is Gerard de Nerval -- whose Sylvie
> and Les filles du feu deserve to be read -- who is
> said to have kept a lobster as a pet and walked it
> on a leash through Paris. Why?  Because it is silent
> and knows the secrets of the deep, is the way I
> remember the quote.  'Scuse me while I kiss this
> guy....


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