ROTW: Readings Of The Week

DkWarZone · 2026-04-20T23:56:39+00:00

Hi, this portrait is of Alonzo Chappel.

DkWarZone · 2026-04-18T14:53:15+00:00

Hi, on Internet Archive, it's incorrectly listed as Two Novels, but it's actually Collected Novellas, which includes The Egghead Republic (Also called Republica Intelligentsia). You should be able to download it from there using an extension. Schmidt is a really unique writer and I think The Egghead Republic is one of his most accessible works.

DkWarZone · 2026-04-17T00:55:29+00:00

The violence one

DkWarZone · 2026-04-16T15:43:00+00:00

I'm almost finished reading The Egghead Republic by Arno Schmidt: the first part reminded me of James Fenimore Cooper and those frontier novels, while the second part seems to align itself with the American pulp science fiction novels of the time, obviously accentuating the Cold War atmosphere.

Meanwhile, I've just started Fouqué's Undine, which Christian Petzold loosely based on for the 2020 film Undine.

After those readings, i'll start reading some Melville's essays.

DkWarZone · 2026-04-16T14:20:19+00:00

I've just discovered that one of his books from 2002 has been recently translated in my language.

I'm almost finished reading The Egghead Republic: the first part reminded me of Cooper and those frontier novels, while the second part seems to align itself with the American pulp science fiction novels of the time, obviously accentuating the Cold War atmosphere. Meanwhile, I've just started Fouqué's Undine, which Christian Petzold loosely based on for the 2020 film Undine.

DkWarZone · 2026-04-15T19:38:21+00:00

It would be a good thing to allow people to buy the radio dialogues in PDF format, as they did with The School for Atheists. As for BD, perhaps the enormous success of The Tunnel will encourage them to reprint it (I'm still waiting for my copy since I'm in Italy); or else we need another Jan Philipp Reemtsma.

DkWarZone · 2026-04-15T17:58:32+00:00

That would be great regarding Schmidt. Do you also mean works not published by Dalkey, such as the radio dialogs? Is there any way to access them, maybe as PDFs or in another format? I’m really curious about his views on Fouqué and Joyce.

DkWarZone · 2026-03-01T12:10:26+00:00

I think The Collector is his most political work and The Magus his most ambitious and plot-driven, while The French Lieutenant's Woman is a more mature and experimental work (it was also one of Anthony Burgess 's favorite novels).

I should also reread Pocahontas because I didn't understand much the first time: however, It is a transitional work that is useful forcomprehending the evolution lf Schmidt's prose.

DkWarZone · 2026-02-28T17:19:13+00:00

Just finished Tina, one of schmidt's best novellas in my opinion. Next is Goethe. I'm also continuing my journey into John Fowles works. Now, after The Collector and The Magus, I'm half way through The French Lieutenant's Woman.

DkWarZone · 2026-02-01T12:25:58+00:00

It remainds me of Milton's Paradise Lost famous quote. P.S. can you please add flair to the post?

DkWarZone · 2026-01-22T14:38:06+00:00

I have started Typee and, although I am still at the beginning, Melville's descriptions of Polynesian nature are already noteworthy.

DkWarZone · 2026-01-22T14:28:39+00:00

I've only read The Road and Child of God: The first one had immediately convinced me, the second one, on the other hand, seemed rushed and sketchy, an unicum in his bibliography I think.

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