Tartarin: I'm unfamiliar with "Encounter". Did Hobsbawm have something to do with it? I seem to recall it as a periodical, but I'm not sure. I've just gotten to the part of his book when he and his sister have just left Berlin for England...
I'm going to have to read that, D'art. (Yeah, right, maybe 2006?) Encounter was a lefty (well, more complicated than that) intellectual journal back mid-century. I'm going to see if I can find more info for you. I wish I'd kept my copies...
That does conform to my vague notion of what "Encounter" was. It's funny, but now that Communism is officially dead and Socialism is little more than a concept for some people (I name no names) to sneer at, I've become curious to read more about the people who believed in them. Hence "To the Finland Station" (which I've set aside for the time being) and Hobsbawm...
Hey, D'art, take a look at what I found! Gives you a good sense of who the contributors were and what they wrote about:
...Well, I was going to paste in a link but it was 7 lines long!! Go to
www.addall.com (book finder) and in "title" type in "Encounter." Let me know if you don't find a good list...
Damn. Looking at what they're selling for, I could have paid for my car with just my yearly subscription to that periodical!!
Hmm...I tried that site, Tartarin, but only found books with "encounter" in the title. Must be doing something wrong...
I think long, long links are not welcome here. I'll see what I can do.
I'm having the same problem. If I type in "Encounter", I get books with that word in the title. How are you finding journals on these sites? (Sorry to be so much trouble, and I hate to come across as so clueless!)
You're right, definitely not clueless!! That link took you to the search page, not to the page part of which is reproduced below (which has the same url as the search page - mysterious!).
SO.o.o.o.o go to the search page and type in Encounter for "title" and Frank Kermode for "author" (he was an editor). You'll get all this (below) and more and more and more!!!
Quote:Kermode, Frank : Lasky, Melvin (eds)
Encounter - April 1965
Encounter, 1965. trade pb. Journal of literature, culture and arts. Includes article by Stephen Spender on "Remembering T.S. Eliot". Issue is in very good condition. Bookseller Inventory #650
Melvin J. Lasky ; Frank Kermode, Eds.
ENCOUNTER: VOL. 28, No. 1 Jan. 1967
London: Encounter, 1967. Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. Used. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG in wraps, minor wear, Includes: Sigmund Freud and W. C. Bullitt on "Woodrow Wilson"; with other contributions by Lawrence Durell, henry Miller; Ihab hassan, David Lodge, and more. Bookseller Inventory #0729660
Melvin J. Lasky ; Frank Kermode, Eds.
ENCOUNTER: VOL. 28, No. 2 Feb. 1967
London: Encounter, 1967. Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. Used. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG in wraps, minor wear, Includes: Part 2 of Sigmund Freud and W. C. Bullitt on "Woodrow Wilson"; "Albert Camus" by maurice Cranston; "german Crisis by George Steiner and others, "Ping" by Samuel Beckett; and more. Bookseller Inventory #0729662
Melvin J. Lasky ; Frank Kermode, Eds.
ENCOUNTER: VOL. 27, No. 5 November. 1966
London: Encounter, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. Used. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG in wraps, minor wear, Includes contributions by Arnold Wesker, Arthur Schlesinger, mary McCarthy, Isaih Berlin, et al. Bookseller Inventory #0729674
Melvin J. Lasky ; Frank Kermode, Eds.
ENCOUNTER: VOL. 26, No. 4 April. 1966
London: Encounter, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. Used. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG in wraps, minor wear, Includes: "conversation with Levi-strauss" by George Steiner; "Physics and man's understanding" by Robert Oppenheimer; "Pkhentz" by Abram Tertz; and more. Bookseller Inventory #0729683
Whoa! That worked, and I'm impressed. Maybe because I entered college in 1967 and my mind was opened to new realms of intellect at that time--those names bring it all back: Spender, Trilling, Isaiah Berlin, Mumford, Beckett. Interestingly, many issues are being sold by a bookstore on Vashon Island, a short ferry ride from here. I might have to take a trip there...
Now you're making me jealous, damn it!!
I'm trying to rummage through the outbuildings of my cluttered brain for info about Encounter eds. being used at one point as covers for the CIA. Literary scandal... I had a friend in London, a journalist, who admitted to having been "used" when he was working in... Lebanon? Syria?
Encounters on Vashon? Why am I not surprised? I map-quested the bookstore address... it is not in Vashon proper, the address is very close to the northern ferry terminals, btw.
I will say, for McTag's sake... I did read the essay and it was a cheery, wholesome bite of South Africa. Being from a rainy clime, I am thrilled when others are thrilled by the wet stuff falling down. I was also super-surprised to see that that the lovely top-notch accommodations available near the Soutpansberg mountains (which I checked... hoping to find Otto's Corner -- didn't) were priced at 250R, etc. BUT that meant $40US. Now if we could just figure out an inexpensive flight over.... Thanks, I wish there were more friendly essays like that in the world.
Piffka--not on Vashon proper? Not sure what you mean. I rarely get over to Vashon, but it is an island, no? Please explain for this confused mainlander!
Jealouser and jealouser...
We do have a lot to be thankful for here, and access to great bookstores is part of what keeps me slogging through the drizzle. Though today has been surprisingly dry and mild!
Starting Dan Brown's Angels and Demons this morning.
Shoot, D'art. We've got the drizzle but no bookstores! Except, well, there has been a startling change. At the next county seat, a hodge-podge town of not great charm but with reliable hardware stores, a super WalMart, and a diffident French restaurant, the gestural bookstore (magazine rack, lots of romance novels and guidebooks to hunting in Texas), has turned overnight (by buying the laundromat next door) into a huge book supermarket + videos + every periodical you can possibly imagine and Barron's and the NYTimes and... and..., and an espresso shop. Holy mackerel! Thought ah'd faint! Why, what with the drizzle 'n' all, I could be living next door to Connecticut, not Mexico!
D'artagnan wrote:Piffka--not on Vashon proper? Not sure what you mean. I rarely get over to Vashon, but it is an island, no? Please explain for this confused mainlander!
Sorry, D'artgnan, I meant not "in" Vashon proper. Vashon being the main street town in the middle of Vashon. The bookstore is just a few blocks south of the Seattle-Vashon ferry terminal. If you look at the map below, that would be near the little crick in the road by the "V" of the blue Vashon label. "Vashon" is the main town...Vashon Center is, I think, where the Minglement restaurant used to be... it may still be there, I dunno. I used to live in "Ellisport" (hmmm, not listed) and my little sister was married in "Burton". Small as it is, there are several little settlements on that island.
Vashon Ferry Map
