Obelisk Press was an English language press based in Paris, France, which was founded by Jack Kahane in 1929. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Jack Kahane (1887-1939 was a Manchester -born Writer and Publisher who founded the Obelisk Press in Paris in 1929
Kahane, a novelist, began the Obelisk Press after his publisher, Grant Richards, went bankrupt. Going into partnership with a printer, Kahane published his next novel Daffodil under his own imprint, and under one of several pseudonyms he used, Cecil Barr. A publisher of 'db's ("dirty books"), Kahane mixed serious work with smut in his list; he was able to take advantage of a legal loop-hole whereby books published in France in English were not subject to the censorship otherwise practised at the time, but were still subject to confiscation when importation wa attempted.
Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States; an edition was printed by the Obelisk Press in Paris. Henry Valentine Miller (December 26 1891 &ndash June 7 1980 was an American writer and painter. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For the novel by Henry Miller, see Tropic of Cancer (novel. The Tropic of Cancer, or Northern tropic, is one of five Obelisk also published Richard Aldington, Anaïs Nin, Cyril Connolly, James Joyce's Haveth Childers Everywhere and Pomes Penyeach, Frank Harris's My Life and Loves and Lawrence Durrell's The Black Book, and also less-known authors as Nadjeda de Braganza. Richard Aldington (born Edward Godfree Aldington July 8 1892 &ndash July 27 1962 was an English writer and poet. Anaïs Nin ana'iːs nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) ( February 21 1903 - January 14 1977) was Cyril Vernon Connolly ( 10 September 1903 - 26 November 1974) was an English intellectual literary critic and writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Frank Harris ( February 14, 1856 &ndash August 27, 1931) was a naturalised American Author of British origin editor, Lawrence George Durrell ( February 27, 1912 &ndash November 7, 1990) was an expatriate British Novelist, Poet, Kahane's wife Marcelle and their son Maurice (later known as Maurice Girodias) worked as unpaid cover illustrators for the imprint. Maurice Girodias ( 12 April 1919 - 3 July 1990) was the founder of the The Olympia Press.
Kahane died within days of the outbreak of World War Two, having just finished his final book, on 3rd September 1939. This book, Memoirs of a Booklegger, marked the end of Obelisk for several years, until his son (Girodias took his mother's birth name during the war to evade detection as a Jew) briefly revived it in the years following the war. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************
Selling in large quantities to the American G. I. s passing through Paris on their return home, Miller's best-known works were republished alongside other English language books such as Memoirs of Fanny Hill; and, Nikos Kazantzakis's Alexis Zorba. Nikos Kazantzakis ( Νίκος Καζαντζάκης) ( February 18, 1883, Heraklion, Crete, Ottoman Empire - Girodias also published works in French including George Bataille's literary review Critique. Georges Bataille (ʒɔʀʒ baˈtaj ( September 10, 1897 &ndash July 8, 1962) was a French Writer. The term critique derives from the Greek term kritik, meaning "disgusting judgment" usually of the value of something Girodias largely abandoned The Obelisk Press name when he discovered that new titles under the name would not sell.
External links
- "The sauce and genius of Jack Kahane": an article in the TLS by James Campbell, December 5 2007
- Neil Pearson Obelisk: A history of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press by Neil Pearson, 2007, Liverpool University Press. Neil Joshua Pearson (born April 27, 1959) is a British Actor best known for his work on television Neil Joshua Pearson (born April 27, 1959) is a British Actor best known for his work on television [1]
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