Etienne wrote re. Derek Raymond
> B. And, as far as I know, from the rest of his
corpus
> there is another novel that was not published
in
> English:
> SICK TRANSIT (1982)
There are two novels unpublished in English - each has
multiple possible English titles so its simpler to refer to
them by their published French titles
Le Soleil Qui S'Eteint was Robin's first novel after his long
layoff in the 1970s. He thought it was terrible and it's hard
not to agree. He certainly never wanted it to be published in
English and as his literary executor I'm inclined to go along
with his wishes (also there's no sign of an Eng lang
m.s).
The second novel Cauchemar Dans La Rue (Nightmare in the
street) is a different matter. It features a French cop v
similar in temperament to his English couterpart in the
Factory novels. It's flawed but has some wonderful passages
and is certainly miles better than Robin's last two novels
Dead Man Upright and Not Till The Red Fog Rises (which he was
still rewriting when he died and actually features a page or
so written by me in an attempt to resolve some plot
contradictions).
In conjunction with Robin's agent Max Jakubowski we're
shopping around for a publisher to reprint the Factory novels
and release Cauchemar in English. As and when we get
somewhere I'll let you all know.
> C. SHORT STORIES
> Until now I never saw a complete list of
Raymond's
> short stories. Part of the explanation is that
he
> never paid attention to this kind of texts and
was
> always reluctant to assemble them in
anthologies,
Yes, not easy for me to assemble either. As of now I don't
think there's enough for a book sized collection. There is
btw material for a sizable volume of letters but that will
have to wait for a sizable upturn in interest.
>
> - There was a series of telefilms by the BBC in
1990
> based on "The Factory", but I never saw anything
of
> it.
This sadly never happened despite some fine scripts being
written. There have since been numerous film options on the
books but don't hold your breath
John
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