Charlie Williams asked:
> Er, can you elaborate on this "pornographic
appendix"?
> Not written by Jim Thompson, I take it? When was
this
> book line out?
The book line in question was Komet (yes, that's "Comet"),
which started in 1955 and ended in 1981 or so. In 1966 they
started to include a porn story with each book, in an
appendix printed on pink paper (while the rest of the book
was on regular white). The only times this appendix was not
hackwork by Anonymus was when it was an excerpt from some of
Ted Mark's Steve Victor novels (which I find quite funny,
btw).
> But the likes of JT are treated as kind of
"heritage"
> authors now, quality classic covers etc.
We were talking about James Ellroy translations, and I'd like
to mention that the guy who turned the L.A. quartet into
Swedish also has handled none other than J.M. Coetzee.
Imagine, say, Gil Brewer getting that kind of treatment in
1958. Yeah, right.
Anders
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