Cape Editions
The Cape Editions are a selection of short books, frequently in translation, issued by UK publisher Jonathan Cape from 1967–1971.
The collection has been described as "the remarkable Cape Editions series of seminal modern texts: poetry, prose, anthropology, drama, many of them pioneering translations".[1]
The general editor of the series was professor and poet Nathaniel Tarn.[1]
Cape Editions
| # | Title | Author | Year | Original title or source |
Cape year | Translator | SBN / ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Scope of Anthropology | Claude Lévi-Strauss | after 1950 | ? | 1967 | Sherry Ortner Paul, Robert A. Paul [2] | S: SBN H: SBN |
| 2 | Call Me Ishmael | Charles Olson | 1947 | S: SBN H: SBN | |||
| 3 | Writing Degree Zero | Roland Barthes | 1953 | Le Degré zéro de l'écriture | 1967 | Annette Lavers, Colin Smith | S: SBN H: SBN |
| 4 | Elements of Semiology | Roland Barthes | 1964 | Éléments de sémiologie | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 5 | I Wanted to Write a Poem | William Carlos Williams | 1958 | S: SBN H: SBN | |||
| 6 | The Memorandum | Václav Havel | 1965 | Vyrozumění | 1967 [3] | Vera Blackwell | S: SBN H: SBN |
| 7 | Selected Poems | Nazim Hikmet | 20th c. | ? | 1967 [4] | Taner Baybars | S: SBN H: SBN |
| 8 | Aphorisms & Letters | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | 18th c. | ? | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 9 | Tango | Slavomir Mrozek | 1964 | Tango | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 10 | On Love ... Aspects of a Single Theme | José Ortega y Gasset | 20th c. | ? | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 11 | Manhood | Michel Leiris | 1939 | L’Âge d’homme | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 12 | Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language | Karl von Frisch | 20th c. | ? | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 13 | Lunar Caustic | Malcolm Lowry | 1968 | 1968 | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 14 | Twenty Prose Poems | Charles Baudelaire | 1869? | possibly selections from Le Spleen de Paris | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 15 | Journeys | Günter Eich | 20th c. | ? | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 16 | A Close Watch on the Trains | Bohumil Hrabal | 1965 | Ostře sledované vlaky | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 17 | Mayan Letters | Charles Olson | 1953 [5] | 1968 | Robert Creeley (ed.) [6] | S: SBN H: SBN | |
| 18 | The Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe | Julian Huxley | 1914 | S: SBN H: SBN | |||
| 19 | The Supermale | Alfred Jarry | 1902 | Le Surmâle | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 20 | Poems & Antipoems | Nicanor Parra | 1954 | Poemas y antipoemas | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 21 | In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali | Various | ? | ? | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 22 | History Will Absolve Me | Fidel Castro | 1953 | La historia me absolverá | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 23 | Selected Poems | Georg Trakl | after 1912 | ? | 1968 | Robert Grenier et al, Christopher Middleton (ed.) | S: SBN H: SBN |
| 24 | Selected Poems | Yves Bonnefoy | after 1945 | ? | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 25 | Ferdinand | Louis Zukofsky | 1968 | S: SBN H: SBN | |||
| 26 | The Recluse | Adalbert Stifter | 19th c. | ? | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 27 | Dialectical Materialism | Henri Lefebvre | 1940 | Le Matérialisme dialectique | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 28 | Missing from the available listing | S: SBN H: SBN | |||||
| 29 | Soul on Ice | Eldridge Cleaver | 1968 | S: SBN H: SBN | |||
| 30 | The Human Sciences and Philosophy | Lucien Goldmann | 1966 | Sciences humaines et philosophie | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 31 | Selected Poems | André Breton | 20th c. | ? | 1969 | S: SBN H: SBN | |
| 32 | Soap | Francis Ponge | 1967 | Le Savon | 1969 [7] | Lane Dunlop | S: SBN H: SBN |
| 33 | Histoire extraordinaire: Essay on a dream of Baudelaire's |
Michel Butor | 1961 | Histoire extraordinaire : essai sur un rêve de Baudelaire |
1969 [8] | Richard Howard | S: SBN H: ISBN 0-224-61664-1 |
| 34 | Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss | Georges Charbonnier | 1961 | Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-Strauss | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 35 | An Absence | Uwe Johnson | 1964 | Eine Reise wegwohin | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 36 | A Critique of Pure Tolerance | Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr., Herbert Marcuse | 1965 | S: SBN H: SBN | |||
| 37 | The Garden Party | Václav Havel | 1963 | Zahradní slavnost | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 38 | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair | Pablo Neruda | 1924 | Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada | 1969 [9] | W. S. Merwin | S: SBN H: ISBN 0-224-61725-7 |
| 39 | Genesis as Myth and Other Essays | Edmund Leach | 1969 | 1969 [10] | S: SBN H: SBN | ||
| 40 | Cold Mountain | Han-Shan | 9th c. | ? | 1970 | Burton Watson | S: SBN H: SBN |
| 41 | The World, the Flesh and the Devil | J. D. Bernal | 1929 | 1970 [11] | S: SBN H: ISBN 0-224-61831-8 | ||
| 42 | The Death of Lysanda | Yitzhak Orpaz | 1964 | מות ליסאנדה | 1970 | Richard Flint | S: SBN 224 61873 3 H: SBN 224 61874 1 |
Later additions
| # | Title | Author | Year | Original title or source |
Cape year | Translator | SBN / ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | Poems [12] | Hermann Hesse | 1953 (original copyright)/1970 (translated by James Wright) | ? | 1971 | James Wright | S: ISBN H: ISBN 0-224-00554-5 |
Sources
A listing of the titles appears in The Death of Lysanda, Yitzhak Orpaz (p. 110).
References
- 1 2 Shearsman Books: Nathaniel Tarn Retrieved 2011-06-28.
- ↑ British Library System number 002152956, Cape editions. no. 1. 53 p. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
- ↑ British Library System number 001619788, 112 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ↑ British Library System number 001681277. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ↑ British Library System number 002707613, Palma de Mallorca: Divers Press, 1953. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
- ↑ British Library System number 004074757, 91 p. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
- ↑ British Library System number 002954015, 100 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ↑ British Library System number 000553755, 174 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ↑ British Library System number 010950789, 69 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ↑ British Library System number 002098935, 124 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ↑ British Library System number 000291550, 76 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- ↑ Poems (Cape Editions), Hermann Hesse; Translator-J. Wright at AbeBooks.com. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
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