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...health-care systems, a group of writers from both countries has attempted a similar bit of serendipity, this time to help revive the corpse of Franco-American understanding. As You Were Saying, a slim volume dreamed up by French and U.S. cultural mandarins and published by America's Dalkey Archive Press, contains seven works of short fiction - or twice that many, depending on how you count. Seven prominent French authors were asked to contribute the beginnings of a story. Each tale was then given to an American writer to complete, revise or otherwise respond...
...published in each other's countries. That puts them in a select group: only 3% of new titles appearing in the U.S. each year are translations (vs. about 20% in France). As You Were Saying is proof that foreign writers can be every bit as readable as the locals. Dalkey has printed a relatively ambitious 15,000 copies, and the organizers plan sequels, possibly in other languages. "This book was imagined as a place of discovery and dialogue between cultures," says Guy Walter, director of Lyons' government-subsidized Villa Gillet cultural center and one of the editors...
...rediscovery is the latest in a line of literary good deeds by the Dalkey Archive Press, which is becoming a major force on the global literary scene. Based in Normal, Illinois, the nonprofit publishing house has been unearthing lost treasures for two decades. Founded by American critic John O'Brien, the Dalkey Archive takes its name from a 1964 novel of that title by the late, hard-drinking Irish writer Flann O'Brien (no kin), one of the firm's early reprints. The surviving O'Brien and his team have since uncovered more than 300 new and out-of-print...
...Carlos Fuentes’ novel “Christopher Unborn” spins 500-plus pages of giddy prose, interspersed with song lyrics, shape poems, plays, and political ads. Sixteen years after “Christopher”’s first edition in English, the non-profit Dalkey Archive Press gives this loud and incorrigible work by Mexico’s most famous novelist a much-deserved rebirth in American bookstores. In the nine months preceding his birth on Oct. 12, 1992 (the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ arrival), Christopher reconstructs the web of romances...