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Item Details
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OBELISK
A HISTORY OF JACK KAHANE AND THE OBELISK PRESS |
| By: |
Neil Pearson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846311012 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846311017 |
| Publisher: |
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2007 |
| Pages: |
528 |
| Description: |
Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press published Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Lawrence Durrell, D H Lawrence, and James Joyce among others. This title pulls together the story of Obelisk, including biographies of Kahane and his major and minor authors, and a bibliography of Obelisk books. |
| Synopsis: |
This remarkable book details the work of one of the most extraordinary publishing enterprises in history. Censor-baiting, provocative, simultaneous publisher of the literary elite and of 'dirty books', Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press published Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Lawrence Durrell, D. H. Lawrence, and James Joyce among others. At the same time, Kahane subsidised his literary endeavours with cheap erotica and trash fiction from long-forgotten eccentrics such as "New York Daily News'" Rome correspondent and self-styled 'Marco Polo of Sex' N. Reynolds Packard. Kahane's business model was simple: if a book was banned in the UK and US it could be profitably published in Paris.Here, for the first time, Neil Pearson has pulled together the incendiary story of Obelisk, including biographies of Kahane and his major and minor authors, and a bibliography of Obelisk books. This beautifully written volume - part cultural history, part reference book - will be required reading for anyone interested in controversial writing, censorship, 1920s Paris, publishing history and authors such as Miller, Joyce and Nin. |
| Illustrations: |
32 colour plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Liverpool University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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