Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press
ISBN: 9781846313684
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Liverpool University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press tells the story of one of the twentieth centuryOCOs most extraordinary publishing enterprises. Censor-baiting and provocative, a publisher of OCydirty booksOCO as well as those of the literary elite, Jack KahaneOCOs Obelisk Press was the first publisher of the early work of Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell and Ana-s Nin, and its roster of authors also included James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Richard Aldington and Cyril Connolly. Kahane subsidised his highbrow literary endeavours by pumping out cheap erotica, trash fiction produced by long-forgotten eccentrics like N. Reynolds Packard, the Rome correspondent of the New York Daily News and self-styled OCyMarco Polo of sexOCO. KahaneOCOs business model was simple: any book banned in the UK or US could be published in Paris OCo and at a profit. Obelisk includes a complete bibliography of Obelisk titles, mini-biographies of its authors, and also features the first extensive biographical essay on Jack Kahane himself. This lively and engaging volume OCo part cultural history, part reference book OCo offers a fascinating insight into the poetic illusions and also the commercial realities that drove literary life in 1930s Paris. Obelisk is a publishing event not to be missed by anyone with an interest in twentieth-century literary lives and letters."


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