Dizzies quiz
In the fizzy comment section of last Tuesday's post, Dizzyheads responded to my heartstring-tugging praise of Dalkey Archive Press. The enigmatic S., discussing the work of David Markson, wrote:
Love S's P. Love also the B of DM. Have read everything EXCEPT W's M. (Why?)
"S's P" stands for Springer's Progress. "W's M" equals Wittgenstein's Mistress. "B" likely refers to Reader's Block.
What other writers give their books such syntactically uniform titles? (One author immediately comes to mind—but I'm interested to hear what you come up with.)
posted by Ed Park @ 12:39 AM
3 Comments:
Dispensing with mysteries (The Clue of the Broken Locket, etc.) there's Jane Austen and then Ivy Compton-Burnett, Henry Green. Thomas Bernhard does it a lot, usually a bare noun phrase followed by genre-implying subtitle:
Auslöschung : ein Zerfall
Der Atem : eine Entscheidung
Die Kälte : eine Isolation
Die Ursache : eine Andeutung
Der Keller : eine Entziehung
Der Kulterer : Eine Filmgeschichte
Watten : ein Nachlass
Holzfällen : eine Erregung
And so on.
Yeah! Bernhard!
And Green's titles are maybe the "purest" example? Loving, Doting, Nothing, etc., and (best title?) Party-Going!
D'oh! DINGUS!
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