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njhorror 08-21-2010 04:49 PM
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I bought The Other Side new from Amazon in 2005, and have it somewhere around my house.

I'm kind of shocked at the prices it's going for, new and used.

ghadis 08-21-2010 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by mark_samuels (Post 51406)
Sure, they've turned out Satan Wants You (which is actually well worth reading), but that's because, I suspect, it's written by the head honcho of Dedalus himself; Robert Irwin. Beyond that, in terms of other new contemporary authors outside of the inside: absolutely zilch.

Mark S.
Not really true at all as, along with other Irwin novels (including the stunning Arabian Nightmare and the pretty good, Exquisite Corpse) they've also published a few by David Madson (The Confessions of a Flesh-eater, Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf, A Box Of Dreams), Andrew Crumey (D'Alembert's Principle, Music, in a Foreign Language, Pfitz) and Andy Oakes along with quite a few more. Looking at their website i see they've also got at least five novels by contemporary authors planned for the rest of the year and early 2011.

mark_samuels 08-21-2010 05:07 PM
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I've not been able to get through Kubin's The Other Side, although I appreciate the illustrations. It seems, to me rather like Beardsley's Under the Hill, in as much as it's a novel by someone whose true talent lay elsewhere; i.e. in illustration & not in prose narrative.

Mark S.

mark_samuels 08-21-2010 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ghadis (Post 51408)
Quote:
Originally Posted by mark_samuels (Post 51406)
Sure, they've turned out Satan Wants You (which is actually well worth reading), but that's because, I suspect, it's written by the head honcho of Dedalus himself; Robert Irwin. Beyond that, in terms of other new contemporary authors outside of the inside: absolutely zilch.

Mark S.
Not really true at all as, along with other Irwin novels (including the stunning Arabian Nightmare and the pretty good, Exquisite Corpse) they've also published a few by David Madson (The Confessions of a Flesh-eater, Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf, A Box Of Dreams), Andrew Crumey (D'Alembert's Principle, Music, in a Foreign Language, Pfitz) and Andy Oakes along with quite a few more. Looking at their website i see they've also got at least five novels by contemporary authors planned for the rest of the year and early 2011.
Ghadis

In that case, I hold my hands up, surrender, stand corrected and apologise. I have my grumpy boots on tonight. :drunk:

Mark S.

ghadis 08-21-2010 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by mark_samuels (Post 51406)
In that case, I hold my hands up, surrender, stand corrected and apologise. I have my grumpy boots on tonight. :drunk:

Mark S.
Well, to be fair, apart from the aforementioned Irwin novels i don't think their contemporary releases have been much good at all really. It would be great to see writers such as yourself, Ligotti, Simon Strantzas, Joel Lane or others published there in the future.

mark_samuels 08-21-2010 05:41 PM
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Ghadis

You're very kind. I wasn't really angling for that response but you've made me feel :)

I really should familiarise myself with the up-to-date stuff from Dedalus and I'm genuinely glad you've pointed that list out to me.

All best
Mark S.

mark_samuels 08-21-2010 06:53 PM
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Ooops. Point of order. That should read Satan Wants Me & not Satan Wants You.

But "well worth reading" stands unchanged. I enjoyed the book a great deal.

Mark S.

Gray House 08-21-2010 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by mark_samuels (Post 51409)
I've not been able to get through Kubin's The Other Side, although I appreciate the illustrations. It seems, to me rather like Beardsley's Under the Hill, in as much as it's a novel by someone whose true talent lay elsewhere; i.e. in illustration & not in prose narrative.
As a prose stylist I thought Kubin was perhaps only adequate. I thought the concept of the city and the general story outline were very good, but what really made this book memorable to me were in the strange imagery (here I'm not speaking of the illustrations, but of the imagery conveyed by the prose) and events. I think it's a very visual book. I read it a year or so ago, and some of the images and scenes this book created in my head I can still easily bring back. I'm a fan of surrealism (in a broad sense) in literature. I think in this respect The Other Side certainly does not disappoint, but if a reader is looking for polished prose the reader might be disappointed.

Soukesian 08-22-2010 06:10 AM
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Yes, I found The Other Side to be very much a visual book - I imagine it as a 60's-70's 'head trip' movie, down to the apocalyptic finale. Jodorowsky would have made a fine job of it.

Anyone else read either of the Dedalus Sa-Carneiro titles? Fascinating stuff, deeply neurotic and hallucinatory, on the cusp between Decadence and modernism. The author was a friend and literary colleague of Pessoa, but committed suicide at 26.

Russell Nash 08-22-2010 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Soukesian (Post 51454)
Anyone else read either of the Dedalus Sa-Carneiro titles? Fascinating stuff, deeply neurotic and hallucinatory, on the cusp between Decadence and modernism. The author was a friend and literary colleague of Pessoa, but committed suicide at 26.
The Dedalus Book of Portuguese Fantasy has two stories by Sá-Carneiro: "Mystery" and "Myself the Other". Probably you already know this.

I love reading anthologies of short stories. The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy is excellent too. To be honest, save for one or two stories, most of these writers were not translated yet, or if some were, the books are out of print, and not available anywhere.


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