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Quote of the Day
Carcanet has always been the place to look for considerations of purely literary and intellectual merit. Its list relies on the vision and the faith and the energy of people who care about books, and values. It is thus as rare as it is invaluable.
Frederic Raphael
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News
SUBVERSIVE ARCHIVE
Monday, 18 Jun 2007
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A substantial collection of books, periodicals and archival material subversive of twenieth-century conventional wisdom has been donated by C.J. Fox, a long-standing and valued contributor to PN Review, to the University of Victoria on Canada's west coast. More than half the collection concerns Carcanet's Wyndham Lewis and includes pictures by and connected with him. But other independents abound: Carcanet's C.H. Sisson and Ford Madox Ford, Richard Aldington, Edmund Wilson, Gottfired Benn, Ernst Junger, Julian Symons etc. The assemblage now forms part of the 'UVic' library's Special Collections, already home to large deposits of, among others, John betjeman and Sir Herbert Read, MC, the anarchist. the later was a leading antagonist to Lewis, so angry noises might well be heard from the stacks after closing time.
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