Jonathan’s Comments (group member since Jan 20, 2016)

Jonathan’s comments from the Bottom's Dream group.

It has arrived! Now I just have to carry the damn thing all the way home on the tube without dropping it and/or breaking my back...

Just got a dispatch notice so this beast should arrive for me at work tomorrow!

We're still trying to obtain the following item[s] you ordered on February 12 2016 (Order# 204-4070404-5297162).

Scmidt, Arno "Bottom's Dream (German Literature)"

We're awaiting a revised estimate from our supplier, and will email you as soon as we receive this information.

I dont - was just picking this up from points NR and Matt had made in the past...maybe they do...I was curious if he dealt with it in the intro or anything like that

From those of you who have it - any sense of how Woods has dealt with the English in the original?

What I don't understand is why the release date in the UK is 23 Sept so I still have to wait :-(

You 'mericans suck

Hmm...here in the U.K. mine is still saying 23rd sept :-(

I know this should probably not go here NR, but a lovely and interesting piece about/interview with the publisher of this wonderful piece of book-art:

http://www.archipelago.org/vol1-3/boy...

When you read this: https://www.theguardian.com/books/200...

and you see how much this is going for online now, it is hard not to get mad.

The frustrating thing about buying the BURIED is that it is rare the author or publisher, who should be rewarded for things like this, get any of the money.

So it arrived - almost mint condition! A few little scuffs to the front but otherwise perfect!



It is insanely huge...and heavier than expected...but an amazing piece of bookness

Yeah. I have been keeping a vague eye on prices over the last couple of years, and this just seemed like such a good bargain and at I time when I could justify the expense...

Yup yup - hopefully in not too crappy condition

Just found a copy for £50 online from a UK seller...so needless to say this is now on the way to me....just in time for reading prior to the Dream's release!

Slipcase! Yay! I love them

I think the angle of the picture is a bit weird - or it may be a mockup of the cover or something? Hard to tell.

A copy has been seen in the wild! https://instagram.com/p/BEL4cWeSb4L/

This looks good, though I have not had the chance to listen yet

http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/...

Alexander and The Displaced show Schmidt stretching out his prose/typographic muscles - the previous novellas are relatively traditional in style, but these two feel like (to me) a writer feeling his way out into the unknown (and are as successful/unsuccessful as one may expect from such testing of boundaries).

Also interesting to see how his condensing of his prose comes about - how efficient he gets with it.

Although, it is important to note that, as this is obviously analyzing his prose in the original, there are lots of sections of untranslated German, so this is not much use for those of us without a knowledge of the language...

History of the Abderites from Wieland is currently top of my Schmidt-recs, hope to get hold of a copy soon.