{"product_id":"notes-without-a-text-and-other-writings","title":"Notes Without a Text and Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn advisor to Italian publishing houses, a translator of Freud and Jung, a friend of Montale and Calvino, Roberto Bazlen was nothing if not a literary man, but kept his writings to himself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, translated into English for the first time, the reader will discover Bazlen's private oeuvre: an unfinished novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Captain\u003c\/i\u003e, which bears comparison with the fiction of Kafka and Beckett; a selection of entries from his notebooks dealing with topics as various as whether or not there is an \"animal Jahweh\" and the aesthetic limitations of the cinema; a trio of essays on his native city of Trieste; and a sampling of his editorial letters. \u003ci\u003eNotes Without a Text\u003c\/i\u003e is an introduction to the work of one of the unknown masters of twentieth-century European literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841255420109,"sku":"9781628973129","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_89076649-2158-46bb-a12c-65959fc5a181.jpg?v=1792025765","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/notes-without-a-text-and-other-writings","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}