Fiction. Short Story. A hilarious apologia for perhaps the most maligned of Shakespeare's minor characters, FALSTAFF: APOTHEOSIS revisits Henry IV's beloved coward, seen here a most complicated fellow, or misunderstood at the very least: for all of the insults, is he not, after all, a master practitioner of the "heroism of humiliation" and progenitor of epic naps? Here we are given full survey of his foibles and finer points by one of France's most intriguing and enigmatic authors, translated with apt fervor by Jacob Siefring.

Falstaff: Apotheosis

Literature & Fiction

Senges, Pierre

Short Stories & Anthologies

Sublunary Editions

In just over half a century, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) had the time to be all of the following: a hunchback; a mathematician; a physics professor; a connoisseur of hare pate; a hermit; an electrical theorist; a skirtchaser; a friend of King George III of England; an asthmatic; a defender of reason; a hypochondriac; a dying man; and the author of 8,000 fragments written with ink and goose quills. Traditionally those fragments have been considered no more than aphorisms, to be sipped like fine schnapps, but certain scholars claim, however, that his famous "Wastebooks" are really the scattered pieces of a Great Novel, and that this might yet be reconstructed, with the help of scissors, glue, and paper, and by using what is left of out imaginations. The present volume retracts, among other things, the work undertaken for more than a century by valiant Lichtenbergians.

Fragments of Lichtenberg (French Literature)

Literary

Dalkey Archive Press

A book in translation from the French. The trade in rhinoceros-horn powder or whale’s penises being a negotiation between hoodlums of insalubrious districts and people of the world, it is in the eyes of the sovereign an inestimable social cement — to borrow a few terms already in use (but you have long known, my prince, that social harmony is a daughter to the underground economy)."

Geometry in the Dust

Inside the Castle

About the Author Pierre Senges is the author of fifteen books and over seventy plays for radio. Senges's most recent book to appear in English translation is Geometry in the Dust (tr. Jacob Siefring, Inside the Castle), with lavish and grotesque illustrations by Killoffer. Senges's work has been recognized for its erudite humor and its baroque affinities, and it is the object of a number of articles by various French literary scholars. Product Description Fiction. Short Stories. Translated by Jacob Siefring. "Each of the texts in this work proceed from the fragments and cryptic beginnings found scattered throughout the notebooks Max Brod took possession of after Kafka's death. The results tend to be as variable as they are unexpected: outlines of tales, madcap soliloquies, fairy tale inversions, strange parables, comedic monologues. In some instances a single fragment of Kafka's is reprised multiple times, yielding parallel but divergent texts. Other times, a unique fragment is driven to its logical extreme, or gives way to a dizzying cascade of ab absurdum speculation, and one marvels how the development could have been otherwise. As one might expect, all of Kafka's familiar obsessions--the night and its terrors, the law, justice and its lack, bureaucracy, animals, et cetera--are here in force. Each passage begins in boldface to indicate the hand of the Prague lawyer, before giving way to Senges's liberties."--Jacob Siefring

Studies of Silhouettes

"Few or none of them heard of a book entitled Refutatio major, falsely attributed to Don Antonio de Guevara, in which the aforementioned Guevara avers that a New World does not exist, but only chimaeras, malevolent rumors, and inventions spread by schemers. These same persons affirm that the reasons set forth by the aforementioned Guevara are highly disconcerting." -- Bonaventura d'Arezzo, Treatise on Shadows (1531) "If this new world actually existed, if its measure could be had in hectares and in tons, or more maliciously in carats to reflect the value of its diamond mines, or in nautical miles because it is seemingly capable of devouring an entire hemisphere as a crab would, going from north to south and from east to west -- if this were the case, then adventurers would have set foot there long ago, smugglers failing to find a better use for their discovery would have taken it as their refuge, and instead of traffickers by nature mute about their rallying points, we would have heard the cries of one thousand boasters, one thousand returning voyagers." -- The Major Refutation Here is a book that unites all books: adventure book, historical panorama, satirical tale, philosophical summa, polemical mockery, geographical treatise, political analysis. This edition of The Major Refutation is followed by a scholarly afterword discussing the conditions of the text's genesis. Pierre Senges is the author of fifteen books. His long novel, Fragments of Lichtenberg, is forthcoming in English from Dalkey Archive Press in 2017.

The Major Refutation: English version of Refutatio major

De Guevara, Antonio

Humor & Satire

Contra Mundum Press

Product Description The reader will find here the true aftermath of the adventures of Ahab, self-described captain, survivor of his last fight against a giant fish. We will see how this retiree with a wooden leg tried to sell his whale story to the highest bidder - in the form of a Broadway musical, then a Hollywood script. Along the way, we will encounter Cole Porter and his chorus girls, but also Cary Grant, Orson Welles, Joseph von Sternberg and Scott Fitzgerald, drowned in his alcohol, as well as a host of producers, shady to varying degrees. We will remember the passage of young Ahab embarking at seventeen for London in the hope of playing Shakespeare there, and the circumstances which presided over the meeting of the librettist Da Ponte with Herman Melville in 1838. We will learn, ultimately, the best way to make the Manhattan cocktail a success and with what tenacity the indestructible Moby Dick seeks revenge on his nemesis. Review "What makes Ahab (Sequels) the proper inheritor of the avant-garde is not merely its formal uniqueness, but the way that it challenges its reader to forgo the logic of pleasure entirely and, in doing so, to experience, for the duration of reading, something we used to be able to count on the institution of the avant-garde to provide: a space where we might be able to exert some measure of autonomy from the market forces that dominate every other square inch of our culture." - Ryan Ruby, The Nation"Here is a writer who is a wellspring of science, in which a jovial Cartesian devil is ever sinking and rising. His unaffected erudition finds itself threatened, then effectively blown to pieces, by an imagination and a humor that laugh in the face of sanctioned knowledges." - Éric ChevillardRecipient of the Prix Wepler (2015)

Ahab (Sequels)

United States

Achab (séquelles) (French Edition)

Contemporary

VERTICALES

Refutation Majeure (Folio) (French Edition)

Gallimard Education

Fragments de Lichtenberg

Essays & Correspondence

La réfutation majeure

Genre Fiction

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