The BURIED Book Club discussion

Wakefield Press show'd up on the RADAR via Ronald's entdeckung of Jean Ferry :: http://wakefieldpress.com/

Wakefield describes themselves thusly ::

"Wakefield Press is an independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities in small, affordable, yet elegant paperback editions. Our publications include the Wakefield Handbooks series (the guidebook as imagined through literature) and the Imagining Science series (science as imagined through literature), as well as forays into classic experimental fiction (literature as imagined through literature). Authors range from literary giants to those underrepresented (or unknown) in English."

That sounds about right.

Also from Wakefield, Nate D still owes us an ADD for Benjamin Peret ::
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

And if you still need convincing :: An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris.

Not that I needed convincing, but Perec is always a convincing argument.

That Paul Scheerbart book (The Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention) has been on my want list for a while now as well. If The Gray Cloth: A Novel on Glass Architecture ends up being as good as I expect it to - I'm trying to get to it in January - then I'll probably break down and buy it.

Wakefield is awesome. I WILL be adding Peret, but I'm still working through the two volumes of his I have and I prefer informed adds. Sorry it's taking a bit, but his violent absurdity is impossible to take in for me in other than small doses (but in small doses it is excellent).

But just look at Wakefield's forthcoming releases! Previously untranslated Unica Zürn (a thankfully unburied Surrealist, becoming unburied-er!) and Marcel Schwob, whose Wakefield-unburied The Book of Monelle is especially wonderful. Plus a Hugo Ball novel and a Gisele Prassinos collection?!

We are unburying in exciting times.

Totally agree with Nate that Wakefield's forthcoming list is formidable. One of the most exciting release schedules I've seen in ages! I haven't bought any of their titles yet, but they're top of my list once I have some holiday money burning a hole in my wallet.

Wakefield have published quite a lot of great works, including delivering English translations for the first time of the collections of Jean Ray, giving us two collections of "ungratefull beggar" Léon Bloy and also providing a proper translation, in full, of Marcel Schwob's "The King in the Golden Mask".