Notes Without a Text biographical In the tradition of Jorge

In the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges

and eco-activist Branko Prlja (penname Bert Stein) was born in Sarajevo

By Arno Schmidt

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Notes Without a Text biographical In the tradition of JorgeRoberto Bazlen published nothing in his lifetime. An advisor to Italian publishing houses, a translator of Freud and Jung, a friend to Montale and Calvino, he was nothing if not a literary man, but he was deeply suspicious of the enterprising spirit of the "literary world" and kept his writing to himself. Here, translated into English for the first time, the reader will discover Bazlen's private oeuvre: an unfinished novel, The Sea Captain, which