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By Neil Pearson
Obelisk: A background of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press information the background of 1 of the main extraordinary—and controversial—publishing organizations of the 20th century. writer at the same time of the notorious novels of the literary elite in addition to good value erotica and “dirty books,” Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press released the likes of Henry Miller, James Joyce, Ana?s Nin, and D.H. Lawrence, along a long record of censor-baiting eccentrics like N. Reynolds Packard, the recent York day-by-day information’ Rome correspondent and the self-styled “Marco Polo of Sex.” Here, for the 1st time, is the tale of this notable enterprise, which captures a few of the 20th century’s so much outrageous literary personalities and their usually scandalous exploits, together with the failed golfing membership society journal run by means of Nin, Miller, and Lawrence Durrell and the tortured dating among Obelisk writer Marjorie Firminger and Wyndham Lewis. A richly illustrated cultural heritage of Twenties Paris, a fully-narrated bibliography of works released by means of an unforgettable literary establishment, and a glimpse into the striking lifetime of the Press’s author, Jack Kahane, The Obelisk Press is a publishing occasion to not be overlooked through a person with an curiosity in twentieth-century literary lives and letters. (20071208)
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It played without a curtain-raiser, was an instant hit, and ran for two uninterrupted weeks at a theatre accustomed to changing its programme daily. The fact that so many dignitaries, organisations and editorials found its subject matter disgusting only added to its success. Then as now, scandal was box office. indd Sec1:23 23/9/07 11:48:55 A VERY BRITISH PORNOGRAPHER Hindle Wakes is the story of a mill girl’s seduction by the mill owner’s son: when his dishonourable conduct is exposed, he does the honourable thing and proposes.
52 According to Kahane he spent two months in a dental hospital in Boulogne undergoing many painful operations on his mouth and jawbone, but feeling vaguely embarrassed that he was not actually wounded. He doesn’t mention being gassed – and at no point in Memoirs of a Booklegger does he refer to the tuberculosis which had troubled him since childhood and which must now have been exacerbated not just by the gas but by the freezing and sodden conditions in the trenches. Furthermore, the trembling that had started in the trenches continued, a legacy of shell-shock, or gas, or both.
The good news was that he was finally where he’d always wanted to be, at the centre of an artistic movement that was beginning to change the country’s cultural landscape. The bad news was that he’d had nothing to do with its inception, had contributed nothing to its growth, and had produced nothing that would be establishing his reputation any time soon. It was time to shut up, sit down, and write. In 1912 a company in Manchester called Sherratt and Hughes was persuaded to publish a small edition of Two Plays, by Jack Kahane.