/lit/ - Literature

>The High-Life by Jean-Pierre Martinet

“Adolphe Marlaud's rule of conduct is simple: live as little as possible so as to suffer as little as possible. For Marlaud, this involves carrying out a meager existence on rue Froidevaux in Paris, tending to his father's grave in the cemetery across the street, and earning the outlines of a living through a part-time job at the funerary shop on the corner. It does not, however, take into account the intentions of the obese concierge of his building, who has set her widowed sights on his diminutive frame, and whose aggressive overtures are to trigger a burlesque and obscene tragedy. Originally published in 1979, The High Life introduces cult French author Jean-Pierre Martinet into English. It is a novella that perfectly outlines Martinet's dark vision: the terrors of loneliness, the grotesque buffoonery of sexual relations, the essential humiliation of the human condition and the ongoing trauma of twentieth-century history.”

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My picks are Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe and The High Life by Jean-Pierre Martinet.

I think I only read five or six that were released this year though.

Solitude, Vanity, Night: An Anthology of Czech Decadent Poetry
The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy (or any of the Dedalus fantasy books)
Estonian Short Stories (from the Writings from an Unbound Europe series)
Tutelary Tales by Villy Sorensen
The Modern Fable by Junzaburo Nishiwaki
The House Spirit and Other Stories by Kanoko Okamoto
1001 Great Stories: Volumes 1 & 2 (from Green Integer)
Angel Riding a Beast by Liliana Ursu
The Complete Works of Urmuz
The Chieko Poems by Kotaro Takamura
The High Life by Jean-Pierre Martinet
My Tired Father by Gellu Naum
The House of Illnesses by Unica Zurn
One Thousand and One-Second Stories by Inagaki Taruho
Metrophilias by Brendan Connell
River of Stars: Selected Poems by Akiko Yosano

Well, there's some. I haven't read them all, though the ones I haven't read I do still own.

The High Life by Jean-Pierre Martinet

"Adolphe Marlaud’s rule of conduct is simple: live as little as possible so as to suffer as little as possible. For Marlaud, this involves carrying out a meager existence on rue Froidevaux in Paris, tending to his father’s grave in the cemetery across the street, and earning the ghost of a living through a part-time job at the funerary shop on the corner. It does not, however, take into account the amorous intentions of the obese concierge of his building, who has set her widowed sights on his diminutive frame, and whose aggressive overtures will set the wheels in motion for a burlesque and obscene tragedy. Originally published in 1979, The High Life introduces cult French author Jean-Pierre Martinet into English. It is a novella that perfectly outlines the dark fare of Martinet’s vision: the terrors of loneliness, the grotesque buffoonery of sexual relations, the essential humiliation of the human condition, and the ongoing trauma of twentieth-century history."

Very short novella that's more like a short story. It reminded me a lot of /r9k/.