Atlas Press News October, 2011
MIT/ATLAS PRESS/LIP BOOK-LAUNCH on 1 November! See end of this news bulletin…
The recent inactivity at Atlas Press has had rather a lot to do with the
imminent publication of this book:
This is the first full-length biography of Jarry in English and incorporates a
great deal of material new to English readers, and a fair amount that will be
new to French ones. (And no, he was not buried upright astride his bicycle, as
was claimed in a recent literary blog...)
Alfred Jarry A Pataphysical Life by Alastair Brotchie:
MIT Press, 7 x 9 inches, 424 pp., 156 illustrations:
$34.95/£24.95 (CLOTH):
Oct. USA, Nov. UK:
ISBN-10: 0-262-01619-2, ISBN-13:978-0-262-01619-3:
Click here for an extract: How to Avoid Fighting a Duel
Meanwhile, Atlas Press has not been idle despite the apparent dearth of new
publications. Recently we have been publishing the JOURNAL OF THE LONDON
INSTITUTE OF 'PATAPHYSICS. By the end of this month, four thematic issues will
have appeared:
- 1. (Angelic issue) Principally featuring a translation of The Comparative Anatomy of Angels by Dr. Mises (Gustav Theodor Fechner), with additional texts by Jarry and Robert Irwin.
- 2. (Paul Etienne Lincoln issue) An Observatory of Collected Cicerones by Paul Etienne Lincoln. Googling his name will give a fair idea of the range of preoccupations of this collection.
- 3. (Presidential issue). The Bleaching Stream: Peter Blegvad in conversation with Kevin Jackson.
- 4. (Mallarmé issue). Ptyxis. Devoted to a single immense poem, texts by
Mallarmé and Sandomir.
Subsequently, Atlas resumes its publications with Harry Mathews' translation of The Dust of Suns by Raymond Roussel, available in a couple of weeks. News of other titles will follow soon...
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