Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was born in Amsterdam, where he was trained as a stonecutter and sculptor until 1944. Inspired by the photojournalistic Picture Post and Weegee’s Naked City he shifted his interest from sculpting to photography in the late 1940s. When he tried his luck Paris in 1950, he took up a job printing photos…
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Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s only novel now translated into English
Keiner weiß mehr is Brinkmann’s only novel. Moloko Plus has now published the first English translation of this novel (or rather, anti-novel), which counts as one of the most innovative German literary works of the 1960s. According to translator Mark Kanak’s blurb on this beautiful edition No One Knows More ‘offers an insight into the emotionally-fraught marital and personal lives (and thoughts)…
New hand made Sea Urchin chapbook: George Bacovia – On Art
Bacovia’s poem De Artă appeared in his compilation Stanţe burgheze in 1946. Back in Bucharest after having retreated to Bacău for more than twenty years, Bacovia recollects in De Artă the days when he was part of the capital’s inner circle of Romanian Symbolists. In condensed lines, often no longer than a single word, Bacovia vividly and lovingly sketches the atmosphere of those days of decadence. De Artă has…