A Brief History of Portable Literature (9 page)

ESSENTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Beach, Sylvia.
Shakespeare and Company
. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1959.

Blanchot, Maurice.
Faux pas
. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1943. (English-language edition:
Faux Pas
, tr. Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.)

Canell, Skip.
Pessimism
. New York: Indolence Editions, 1958.

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand.
La vrai nom du complot portatif
(
The True Name of the Portable Conspiracy
), c. 1924. Manuscript disappeared in Prague.

Cendrars, Blaise.
L’Anthologie nègre
. Paris: Correa, 1947. (English-language edition:
The African Saga
, tr. Margery Williams Bianco. New York: Payson & Clarke, 1927.)

Cendrars, Miriam.
Inédits secrets
(
Unpublished Secrets
). Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1969.

Crowley, Aleister.
Os Bucharestis
(
The Bucharesters
). Oporto: Porto Editorial, 1948.
Original presumed lost.

Huidobro, Vicente.
El sabotaje de lo instituido
(
Sabotaging the Establishment
). Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1962.

Klee, Paul.
Tagebücher
(diaries). Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont, 1957.

Kromberg, Hermann.
Tagebücher
, ed. Aleister Crowley. Vienna: Keuschnig, 1929.

Littbarski, Werner and Valery Larbaud.
Die Shüsse eines Junggesellen
. Vienna: Keuschnig, 1930.
(English-language edition:
A Bachelor Opens Fire
. Glasgow: Surrealist Armouries Press, 1960.)

Malú, Rita.
Cartas desde Mogadishu
(
Letters from Mogadishu
). Havana: Editorial Espuela de la Plata, 1969.

Man Ray.
Travels with Rita Malú
. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.

de la Mare, Walter.
Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Shandies.
Middlesex: Penguin, 1951.

O’Keeffe, Georgia.
Pictures
(memoir). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951.

Picabia, Francis.
Veuves et militaires
(
Widows and Soldiers
). Forthcoming from Corti Bookshop Press (11 rue de Medicis, Paris).

Rigaut, Jacques.
Agence générale du suicide
(
General Suicide Agency
). Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1974. (Included in
Four Dada Suicides
, tr. Terry Hale, Iain White, et al. London: Atlas Press, 1995.)

Sterne, Laurence.
The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
New York: Modern Library Classics, 2004.

Typ(h)on, Ant(h)ony.
In Praise of Discomposure
. (With prologue by Jorge Luis Borges and Maria Kodama and epilogue by Virginia Klimt.) New Orleans: Klimt Editions, 1983.

Tzara, Tristan. “Histoire portative de la littérature abregé” (“A Portable History of Brief Literature”), in
Sept manifestes Dadá. L’espion des realistes et une
histoire inédite
. Paris: J. J. Pauvert, 1963. (English-language edition:
Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
, tr. Barbara Wright. London: John Calder, 1977.)

New Directions Paperbooks — a partial listing

Martín Adán,
The Cardboard House

César Aira
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
Conversations
Ghosts

Will Alexander
, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome

Paul Auster
, The Red Notebook

Gennady Aygi
, Child-and-Rose

Honoré de Balzac
, Colonel Chabert

Djuna Barnes
, Nightwood

Charles Baudelaire
, The Flowers of Evil*

Bei Dao
, The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems*

Nina Berberova
, The Ladies From St. Petersburg

Rafael Bernal
, The Mongolian Conspiracy

Max Blecher
, Adventures in Immediate Irreality

Roberto Bolaño
, By Night in Chile
Distant Star
Last Evenings on Earth
Nazi Literature in the Americas

Jorge Luis Borges
, Labyrinths
Seven Nights

Coral Bracho
, Firefly Under the Tongue*

Kamau Brathwaite
, Ancestors

Sir Thomas Browne
, Urn Burial

Basil Bunting
, Complete Poems

Anne Carson
, Glass, Irony & God

Horacio Castellanos Moya
, Senselessness

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Death on the Installment Plan
Journey to the End of the Night

Inger Christensen
, alphabet

Jean Cocteau
, The Holy Terrors

Peter Cole
, The Invention of Influence

Julio Cortázar
, Cronopios & Famas

Albert Cossery
, The Colors of Infamy

Robert Creeley
, If I Were Writing This

Guy Davenport
, 7 Greeks

Osamu Dazai
, No Longer Human

H. D.
, Tribute to Freud
Trilogy

Helen DeWitt
, Lightning Rods

Robert Duncan
, Selected Poems

Eça de Queirós
, The Maias

William Empson
, 7 Types of Ambiguity

Shusaku Endo
, Deep River

Jenny Erpenbeck
, Visitation

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Coney Island of the Mind

Thalia Field
, Bird Lovers, Backyard

F. Scott Fitzgerald
, The Crack-Up
On Booze

Forrest Gander
, As a Friend
Core Samples From the World

Henry Green
, Pack My Bag

Allen Grossman
, Descartes’ Loneliness

John Hawkes
, The Lime Twig

Felisberto Hernández
, Lands of Memory

Hermann Hesse
, Siddhartha

Takashi Hiraide
, The Guest Cat

Yoel Hoffman
, The Christ of Fish

Susan Howe
, My Emily Dickinson
That This

Bohumil Hrabal
, I Served the King of England

Sonallah Ibrahim
, Stealth
That Smell

Christopher Isherwood
, The Berlin Stories

Fleur Jaeggy
, Sweet Days of Discipline

Gustav Janouch
, Conversations With Kafka

Alfred Jarry
, Ubu Roi

B. S. Johnson
, House Mother Normal

James Joyce
, Stephen Hero

Franz Kafka
, Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared

Alexander Kluge
, Cinema Stories

Laszlo Krasznahorkai
, Satantango
The Melancholy of Resistance

Mme. de Lafayette
, The Princess of Clèves

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Places of My Infancy

Lautréamont
, Maldoror

Denise Levertov
, Selected Poems

Li Po
, Selected Poems

Clarice Lispector
, The Hour of the Star
Near to the Wild Heart
The Passion According to G. H.

Luljeta Lleshanaku
, Child of Nature

Federico García Lorca
, Selected Poems*
Three Tragedies

Nathaniel Mackey
, Splay Anthem

Stéphane Mallarmé
, Selected Poetry and Prose*

Norman Manea
, Captives

Javier Marías
, Your Face Tomorrow (3 volumes)
While the Women Are Sleeping

Thomas Merton
, New Seeds of Contemplation
The Way of Chuang Tzu

Henri Michaux
, Selected Writings

Dunya Mikhail
, Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea

Henry Miller
, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Big Sur & The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
The Colossus of Maroussi

Yukio Mishima
, Confessions of a Mask
Death in Midsummer

Eugenio Montale
, Selected Poems*

Vladimir Nabokov
, Laughter in the Dark
Nikolai Gogol
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Pablo Neruda
, The Captain’s Verses*
Love Poems*
Residence on Earth*

Charles Olson
, Selected Writings

George Oppen
, New Collected Poems (with CD)

Wilfred Owen
, Collected Poems

Michael Palmer
, Thread

Nicanor Parra
, Antipoems*

Boris Pasternak
, Safe Conduct

Kenneth Patchen
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer

Octavio Paz
, Selected Poems
A Tale of Two Gardens

Victor Pelevin
, Omon Ra

Saint-John Perse
, Selected Poems

Ezra Pound
, The Cantos
New Selected Poems and Translations
Personae

Raymond Queneau
, Exercises in Style

Qian Zhongshu
, Fortress Besieged

Raja Rao
, Kanthapura

Herbert Read
, The Green Child

Kenneth Rexroth
, Songs of Love, Moon & Wind
Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese

Keith Ridgway
, Hawthorn & Child
Never Love a Gambler

Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems from the Book of Hours

Arthur Rimbaud
, Illuminations*
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat*

Guillermo Rosales
, The Halfway House

Evelio Rosero
, The Armies

Joseph Roth
, The Emperor’s Tomb

Jerome Rothenberg
, Triptych

Ihara Saikaku
, The Life of an Amorous Woman

William Saroyan
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

Albertine Sarrazin
, Astragal

Jean-Paul Sartre
, Nausea
The Wall

Delmore Schwartz
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

W. G. Sebald
, The Emigrants
The Rings of Saturn
Vertigo

Aharon Shabtai
, J’accuse

Hasan Shah
, The Dancing Girl

C. H. Sisson
, Selected Poems

Gary Snyder
, Turtle Island

Muriel Spark
, The Ballad of Peckham Rye
A Far Cry From Kensington
Memento Mori

George Steiner
, My Unwritten Books

Antonio Tabucchi
, Indian Nocturne
Pereira Declares

Yoko Tawada
, The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The Naked Eye

Dylan Thomas
, A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Collected Poems
Under Milk Wood

Uwe Timm
, The Invention of Curried Sausage

Charles Tomlinson
, Selected Poems

Tomas Tranströmer
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

Leonid Tsypkin
, The Bridge over the Neroch
Summer in Baden-Baden

Tu Fu
, Selected Poems