J.R.R. Tolkien’s not the only novelist who invented fictional languages! In Harry Mathews‘s early masterpiece, the epistolary novel The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, newlyweds Zachary McCaltex and Twang Panattapam, separated by the Atlantic, exchange letters in which they “try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in [...]
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A Pan-English Dictionary (for readers of Harry Mathews’s The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dalkey Archive Press, Franz Kafka, Harry Mathews, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium on July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009: #4: Jeremy M. Davies’s Rose Alley
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cigarettes, Counterpath Press, Dalkey Archive Press, Harry Mathews, Jeremy M. Davies, John Dryden, Lily Hoang, London, May 1968, Paris, Rose Alley, The Decameron, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium on December 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
#1 | #2 | #3 #4. Rose Alley by Jeremy M. Davies (Counterpath Press, 2009)
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