A01=Alistair Ian Blyth
alberto manguel
Author_Alistair Ian Blyth
books about libraries
bucharest
Category=FBA
ceausescu
codex
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genre twisting
italo calvino
jorge luis borges
library
literary fiction
pound's canto XIV
revolution
Product details
- ISBN 9781628972696
- Publication Date: 12 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Alistair Ian Blyth’s Card Catalogue is a book about books. Set in Bucharest in the decade after the Revolution, it presents a series of dreamlike narratives loosely linked by the subject of libraries: book hoarding, book hunting, book burning, and, above all, the dreams of infinite other books—past and future—that every individual codex volume inspires. Whether he is describing his encounters with Gribski (whose strange hidden library in Bucharest he is to see but once) or itemizing the various books whose existence he has dreamed (including “a collection of children’s paeans to Ceausescu bound in the same volume as a slim commentary on Pound’s Canto XIV”), Blyth shows himself to be a card catalogue unto himself. In the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Alberto Manguel, this book is bound to please.
A native of Sunderland, England, Alistair Ian Blyth has resided for many years in Bucharest. His many translations from Romanian include: Little Fingers by Filip Florian; Our Circus Presents by Lucian Dan Teodorovici; Occurrence in the Immediate Unreality by Max Blecher; and Coming from an Off-Key Time by Bogdan Suceava.
