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In the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges

1963) burst on the Italian literary scene in 1992 with a picaresque novel about underwear: her own

and eco-activist Branko Prlja (penname Bert Stein) was born in Sarajevo

By Arno Schmidt

Notes Without a Text biographical crossing out othersRoberto Bazlen published nothing in his lifetime. An advisor to Italian publishing houses, a translator of Freud and Jung, a friend to Montale and Calvino, he was nothing if not a literary man, but he was deeply suspicious of the enterprising spirit of the "literary world" and kept his writing to himself. Here, translated into English for the first time, the reader will discover Bazlen's private oeuvre: an unfinished novel, The Sea Captain, which