Arno Schmidt Volume 1: Collected Novellas

Editorial Note: Evidently, YouTube trimmed off the last five minutes of this video. It was mostly rambling closing points and a few gags but the point remains, several minutes are missing. If you're desperate to see those last lost minutes, email me.

Arno Schmidt: Collected Novellas (Collected Early Fiction Vol 1)

Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 1994
Paperback & Hardcover, 446 pages
ISBN: 9781564780669

Sections:
00:00 Intro
05:18 Publication and Survey of Contents
11:42 Translation, Compensation, and Impossibility
19:31 Reclaiming a Stolen Language
24:16 Fascism and Antiquity
41:31 Notecard and Photographs
01:01:47 Legacy and Melancholy
01:16:47 End Notes
01:19:11 Centaurs and Cold Wars and Sci-Ops, Oh My!

Readings from p. 23, 50, 80, 136, 170

Secondary Resources:

Schmidt-related Twitter Tangents:

Music: “I Hate That” by ThisKidsNoGood

[alvisinger]

Thanks so much man, this has made my last couple of days. Amazing quality as always.

[basserman]

Love it, ordered Nobodaddy’s today online for 7 bucks used. Can’t wait for the rest of the Schmidt videos!

[lachenmann]

Am I wrong in feeling that I enjoy more the experience of you talking about Schmidt for me than reading the work itself? I think that literary commentary, being fictional or real literature, is my favorite form of literature.

[authorgreene]

Outside of experimental literary fiction, you touched on photography and the works of Lars Von Trier—photography being a subject I'm extremely interested in a consumer of pictures and owner of many art photobooks, and Von Trier being an auteur whose filmography fascinates me (I've watched Dogville dozens of times, though Breaking the Waves is my favorite of his films, and Melancholia I've seen only twice because of how depressed it makes me). Thanks for the work you do talking about great and enigmatic literature, Seth.

[davidfarley]

I am so freaking curious about this writer

[tescomealdeals]

Do you ever plan on discussing the school for atheists? I find it really weird how despite being the only one of Schmidt's typoscripts which is still readily available in English it also seems to be the only one of his works which virtually no one talks about.

[pynchonsez]

Thanks for the video. Hopefully Dalkey can get more Schmidt in print shortly, though their production schedules seem perpetually delayed. What's the book the the left of Devil House (I can read Cisco on the bottom)?

[ravnhavill]

Superb video. Your productions are carefully crafted and clearly much work is going into these. Keep up the greatness!

(also have you come across the work of Miklos Szentkuthy? Maybe he's of interest)

[davidfarley]

Response to Gadir: I’m going to put a call in the Hollywood Reporter for a lead actor in the movie version of the story. If Jim Caviezel shows up for a casting call I’ll be able to better calibrate 😀

[eoind]

Thank you ❤ . >> dopamine hit for ya 🔥

[davidfarley]

Today we see see Neo fascist groups like CasaPound in Italy…Eco’s list may not be THE checklist, but fascist thought certainly lends itself to a psychological intake form