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I'm always surprised by just how many surrealist painters I admire also written books. Even more impressed when they are especially acclaimed for writing.

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Not a recommendation. Just a heads-up as this may spark some conversations within the weird community.

How N.K. Jemisins The City We Became came to be

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I want to start with her epic fantasies but I will want that eventually.

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Italian gothic writer Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Fantastic Tales - Archipelago Books

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Sounds great : D

But there is the 2013 edition available for those who don't want to wait until the end of September





King of related but I love Dalí's paintings but his one book of fiction was kind of amazingly non surreal, basic and straightforward. Was honestly kind of a letdown.

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There is also a hardcover edition published in 1992.

"Giulia's corpse...rests in her shroud as if wrapped in the veils of her virginal bed. Her beauty has lost none of its seductiveness. A white dress, light, almost diaphanous, covers her modest figure.... Her pure white hands lie at her sides with the gentle surrender of sleep, and only her feet, pointing upward and joined together, bear witness to the horrible rigidity of death."

This passage from "Bouvard," a macabre evocation of obsessive love beyond the grave, typifies the eerie narratives in Fantastic Tales. The first Gothic tales published in the Italian language, Tarchetti's strange stories recall and sometimes imitate those of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Mary Shelley. In "A Spirit in a Raspberry," a nobleman is possessed by the soul of a servant girl; "The Letter U" recounts a man's mysterious phobia about that letter; the unexpected gift of everlasting life becomes a dreaded, endless curse in "The Elixir of Immortality."

William Weaver, translator of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, writes: "While current Italian literature in English translation is closely followed by publishers, critics, and readers, the Italian writers of the past...are largely ignored. Lawrence Venuti now presents the nineteenth-century writer Iginio Ugo Tarchetti--a strange, romantic figure now almost forgotten even by Italian readers. But, as Venuti's probing introduction to this collection of tales indicates, Tarchetti is emblematic, the child of his times and their taste. These stories are enjoyable to read simply for themselves, but they also illustrate a literary culture of notable fascination. The translations flow, yet retain the flavor of their period and are true to the style and personality of their curious, gifted author."

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This interview is eight minutes longer than ten, but the Robert Shearman collection sounds like an insane undertaking. The cheapest edition of it is £45 but it's a massive three volumes. Reggie Oliver illustrations too.
Episode 370: Ten Minutes with Ian Mond

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I found a second-hand copy of the 1992 ed. of Tarchetti's book, and I did not find his tales as good as those by Poe and others.

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Hello there! This book contains just the 25,000 word novella - more accurately, unfinished novel - with my commentary that tries to reveal underlying themes. It sold out on publication, but I believe a few copies are still available.

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From the author of Straw Dogs and The Soul of the Marionette.


(When I saw the release date of November 17, 2020, I genuinely wondered if I would still be alive by then.)