{"product_id":"9781628973129","title":"Notes Without a Text and Other Writings","description":"\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\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":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43317777727549,"sku":"9781628973129","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781628973129_p0.jpg?v=1783030371","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781628973129","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}