Pierre Senges

In just over half a century, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) had the time to be all of the following: a hunchback; a mathematician; a physics professor; a connoisseur of hare pate; a hermit; an electrical theorist; a skirtchaser; a friend of King George III of England; an asthmatic; a defender of reason; a hypochondriac; a dying man; and the author of 8,000 fragments written with ink and goose quills. Traditionally those fragments have been considered no more than aphorisms, to be sipped like fine schnapps, but certain scholars claim, however, that his famous "Wastebooks" are really the scattered pieces of a Great Novel, and that this might yet be reconstructed, with the help of scissors, glue, and paper, and by using what is left of out imaginations. The present volume retracts, among other things, the work undertaken for more than a century by valiant Lichtenbergians.

Fragments of Lichtenberg

Achab (séquelles)

Paul Kavanagh

Ennio Flaiano

Patty Yumi Cottrell

Eugene Lim

Brad Baumgartner

Berit Ellingsen

Adam McOmber

Friederike Mayröcker

Adam Golaski

Donald Breckenridge

Adam Lovasz

Meghan Lamb

John Trefry

Evan Lavender-Smith

Ashley David

Daniel James Fraser

Elliott Niblock

Frank Garrett

Haley Hemenway Sledge

Ian Dreiblatt

Iris Moulton

K. Thomas Kahn

Lital Khaikin

Helmut Dosantos

Jesse Kohn

Matt Trease

Boredom As a Luxury: Ennui

Vestiges_02

Dominique Lestel

Nicolas de Crecy

Riviere Daniele

Adventures of Percival

Geometry in the Dust

Jacob Siefring

Rabelais's Doughnuts

Antonio de Guevara

A book that unites all books: adventure book, historical panorama, satirical tale, philosophical summa, polemical mockery, geographical treatise, political analysis.

MAJOR REFUTATION

Fiction. Short Story. A hilarious apologia for perhaps the most maligned of Shakespeare's minor characters, FALSTAFF: APOTHEOSIS revisits Henry IV's beloved coward, seen here a most complicated fellow, or misunderstood at the very least: for all of the insults, is he not, after all, a master practitioner of the "heroism of humiliation" and progenitor of epic naps? Here we are given full survey of his foibles and finer points by one of France's most intriguing and enigmatic authors, translated with apt fervor by Jacob Siefring.

Apotheosis

Falstaff

The reader will find here the true aftermath of the adventures of Ahab, self-described captain, survivor of his last fight against a giant fish. We will see how this retiree with a wooden leg tried to sell his whale story to the highest bidder - in the form of a Broadway musical, then a Hollywood script. Along the way, we will encounter Cole Porter and his chorus girls, but also Cary Grant, Orson Welles, Joseph von Sternberg and Scott Fitzgerald, drowned in his alcohol, as well as a host of producers, shady to varying degrees. We will remember the passage of young Ahab embarking at seventeen for London in the hope of playing Shakespeare there, and the circumstances which presided over the meeting of the librettist Da Ponte with Herman Melville in 1838. We will learn, ultimately, the best way to make the Manhattan cocktail a success and with what tenacity the indestructible Moby Dick seeks revenge on his nemesis.

Ahab (Sequels)

L'histoire du calife sauvé par une brindille

Pierre Senges

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