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Some of my favorite @Dalkey_Archive releases, in memory of John O’Brien. This overlooked Queneau is among my favorite books ever. 1920s Paris student life as an uncanny fading cosmos, a book only Queneau could have written.
The first two volumes of Roubaud’s Great Fire of London series, which could be read in labyrinthine digressions and bifurcations forever
The first two Sorrentinos I ever read. Mulligan Stew has just about the ugliest cover you can imagine, but is among the greatest Rabelaisian comedy/satires you’ll read.
Of course, the Great American Novel
& the Great American Novels
Your postmodern Mexican epics
The book that drowns all books (James’s in there for scale)
This under appreciated masterpiece of memory
The great book on contemporary American evil
Christine Brooke-Rose’s beautiful metafiction
Anything and everything by Rikki Ducornet
Vian’s Heartsnatcher, a classic for the real heads
& the Catalonian Ulysses
Shklovsky’s works
& these baffling mind benders
I’ll stop now but here’s a lengthy interview with O’Brien about Dalkey Archive, Review of Contemporary Fiction, CONTEXT, etc.
https://www.dalkeyarchive.com/interview-with-john-obrien/
https://www.dalkeyarchive.com/interview-with-john-obrien/
Dalkey also publishes tons of Jon Fosse. Read Jon Fosse!
