ITALO SVEVO
A Triestan merchant whose
hob~y
of writing was discovered by Joyce
may possibly come to rank
with
Kafka as one of the most original and
significant European writers of this century. His masterpiece,
The Con–
fessions
of Zeno (
$3.50), is now being republished as the first volume in
The Modem Readers Series. Svevo has been called "the Italian Proust'';
the comparison is apt only in that both novelists can bring the reader to
a state of absorbed fascination and hold him there. Renata Poggioli has
contributed a searching essay on Svevo's life and work.
BAUDELAIRE
stands at the gate to modem poetry, his stature increasing with the years.
A young Englishman, Geoffrey Wagner, has made what are unquestion–
ably the best English translations of the principal poems of
Flowers
of
Evi'l.
They are now available in The New Classics Series ($1.50), with
the French originals printed
en face
and a solid introduction by Enid
Starkie.
EZRA POUND
• has always been a profound admirer of Confucius, his understanding of
the master's teachings deepening with the years. During the intervals of
his illness he has had the opportunity to prepare a completely revised
version, with expanded interpretative notes, of Confucius'
Great
Digest
and
The Unwobbling Pivot
($1.00). It is Pound's contention that these
texts reveal the secret of his own misunderstood political philosophy and
provide bases for a stable world order.
NEW WRITING
edited in London by the international critic John Lehmann is one of the
most lively mirrors of the new and interesting in British and European
writing. We have imported a thousand copies of the most recent number
of
New Writing
($3.00) for distribution in this country. Reserve one
at once with your bookseller because no more will be available. A high–
light of this number is a symposium on "The Future of Fiction" by
Koestler, Macaulay, Pritchett, Sitwell and others. There is a strong Greek
section, and essays on Valery, Paul Klee, Picasso, and Alfred Hitchcock.
NEW WORLD PRIMER
is
a little book which will help you to straighten out your thinking about
the besetting problems of world organization and the United Nations. Its
author is Julien Cornell, a young lawyer known for his work on civil lib–
erties cases. Raymond Swing calls the book : "an able and remaxkably
lucid statement of the greatest problem before mankind today." ($2.00).
NEW DIRECTIONS
is the publisher of these books. Ask
to
see them at your bookseller's today
and send for a complete catalogue to 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
