Internet bookselling
The Guardian’s Richard Adams uses two books to demonstrate the usefulness of internet book shopping: Geoff Dyer’s “entertaining” Out of Sheer Rage and “neglected Austrian novelist” Thomas Bernhard’s The Voice Imitator. It’s not very interesting. And the latter is not neglected by Dyer: Out of Sheer Rage is a pastiche of Bernhard!
Adams says The Voice Imitator is available using a sites like Alibris and Abebooks. Coincidentally, I’ve been hoping to find a copy of Woodcutters, the alternative translation of Bernhard’s Cutting Timber. It’s the only English translation I don’t have. But I’ve never bought anything off either site. Yet. No, it’s not very interesting.
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- The most important writer in the world
- Repetition again, part 2
- Every month is like February
- Monstrous events
- Waggish
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