According to the poet Ezra Pound, literature is the news that stays news. This spring and summer we at Sebastian Silsbury have seen that old saw cut deep. We are here on a heroic quest to rediscover the special cases – a hint at a widespread hunger for intelligent fiction that asks its readers to imagine the costs, and the risks, of personal courage and ethical responsibility. Classic fiction, especially of the 20th century, has never done brisker business. Sebastian Silsbury and his staff has recently won admirers with elegantly crafted editions of European writers, recruiting a new British readership for the work of Stefan Zweig and what its avant-garde giants such as Duras, Robbe-Grillet and Pirandello. We also have a quirkily intriguing catalogue of modern gems, from Norman Douglas in the 1920s to Michael Bracewell in the 1990s. And most recently we have re-issued John Sommerfields metropolitan panorama of the 1930s, May Day. Wary of corporate spin, todays book clubs, bloggers and stubbornly independent readers love to come across an unearthed jewel from the past rather than submit meekly to the Next Big Thing. More power to the awkward squads collective elbow.ead of her time who, like the author herself, forges her own
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 21:07:26 +0000
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