The BURIED Book Club discussion

Anyone got the goods on this Robert Pinget guy? Rod's got this review of The Inquisitory right HERE and Richard appears to be acquainted but I don't see his review. Rod's also got a review of Someone right HERE.

His numbers are BURIED. He's apparently so good that MJ found him tedious. Plus he's published by the BIG BOYS like Dalkey and Red Dust and Calder.

According to the rather impressively extending list on his wikipedia, French readers will have a much better chance of become a Pinget Completist than will those of us dependent upon an incomplete Englishing of his manymany books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P...

He seems to be read very little considering how many books he's had translated! Several are at the Brooklyn Library, evidently, though, so I may look into these soon.

I thought we weren't simply stealing from John O'Brien's previous unBURIALS? Can I add more Dalkey authors now, or will I be seized?

Also: a suggestion. People who unBURY might take time to add biographical information and an author photo for their authors? This would help to de-obscure.

MJ wrote: "we weren't simply stealing"

O'Brien's kennel is fine, but MJ is restrained to a DA to non-DA ratio of 1::2. (view spoiler)[did my crusty humor delay many entries? (hide spoiler)]

Bio info and photo and number of children and all the other stuff you get in a press kit accompanying an ARC are necessary components for the construction of your spade. We are, after all, nothing but rear-guard, post-grave publicists. But, yes, the goodreads database could use some sweeping up and a hell of a lot of tweaking when it concerns the rotting literary corpses of what concerns us here. MJ's suggestion would require that you become a goodreads LIBRARIAN (or to remain one and activate your powers), which is a really easy thing to do, even easier than cajoling people into believing that you are a self-published & BURIED author, and requires a simple application even GRAVE robbers can complete, and then you can do ANYTHING you want to those author and book entries, things like CORRECT bad data, add missing books, add flattering photos, make the page count read whatever-you-want (666), correct gender attribution, pretty much make reality reflect your very own mind!

"We want information. Information. Information. Who are you...." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tb8J...

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "MJ is restrained to a DA to non-DA ratio of 1::2."

The cruelest ratio.

MJ wrote: "Nathan "N.R." wrote: "MJ is restrained to a DA to non-DA ratio of 1::2."

The cruelest ratio."

That ratio passed by the narrowest of margins. It's likely to be reversed next election season. (view spoiler)[start throwing out Dalkeys will-he-nill-he. at least most of their stuff is in print and reviewed here, unlike muchmuch other stuff for whose sake I've been lining the pockets of evil book-dealers-&-collectors (hide spoiler)]

I saw two of Pinget's plays performed a few years ago. The first, 'Old Tune', was translated by Beckett and had, not surprisingly I suppose, the feel and heft of Beckett about it. The other play was 'Night', about which my main memory is of the set which featured a bed on the vertical with two men in it having an amusing conversation.

Well I read the Inquisitory most of you have likely seen part of the review already as I wrote half in the middle of the book and half at the end a real rollercoaster of reactions this one a bit of an irritant at times but quite good really I suppose I'll read more at some point no reason not too now that I've hit the apparent megawork
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I read and reviewed Trio, which collects three of Pinget's shorter fiction works, including his first work of prose, a collection of surrealism-influenced bits and pieces called Between Fantoine and Agapa (1951), and the two more similarly-veined Nouveau Roman-ish That Voice (1975) and Passacaglia (1969).

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

It sounds like these probably resemble the Inquisitory as well, which is absolutely designed to be a slog, but at the same time it's funny (via the narrator, and because it winkling knowns how annoying it is) and then suddenly breaks through into these incredible passages that resonate all the more for springing out of all this seemingly irrelevant detail. I'd really like to read the first part of Trio, at least.

Yeah, I didn't catch any winking or nudging, but I may just have zoned out...

Between Fantoine and Agapa is still in print from Red Dust as a separate volume, if you don't want to commit to the full Trio:

http://reddustbooks.com/products-page...