Is this obtainable in any way in the EU, other than paying 90 euro for a first edition from the US or waiting till april 2026 for the dalkey rerelease with that abominable cover?
>>24723220Annas archive. >but I want it printed and cheapWell fuck you then.
>>24723230Yeah, but fuck dalkey more. Why are they changing the damn cover from this masterpiece
>>24723220Just search abebooks or the like a few times a week and you will find a copy for a reasonable price in not too long. The people who charge $90 are just exploiting its being temporarily out of print and that there are people will happily pay that if they are patient. Also, it was translated into German, maybe you can snag that for now to tie you over until April? But why not just read something else until then? There are lots of books to choose from. >>24723240Deep Vellum bought them and pulled them from the brink and are trying to get Dalkey to be sustainable again and working towards its mission. The unified covers saves a fair amount of time and money when it comes to the printing, they can have a single press setup for doing all the covers with only a slight tweak of the ink flow between covers, probably saves a day's work for each book which means they can get a hell of a lot more printing done. Dalkey had let a good deal of their catalog go out of print by the time Deep Vellum bought them and Dalkey's whole thing is that their books would never go out of print, they have a lot of catching up to do to get everything back into print.
>>24723741I see now, guess I'll just be checking on bookfinder every now and then and pray I catch the wonderful first two covers, but if not, I'll just Anna's archive it...
>>24723741It just seems very unfortunate that they would buy the rights to all those "hidden gem" pieces and proceed to mass-stamp them with grossly uninspired covers and no difference in font or text siz for the title.
>>24723776They need to build their catalog back up and start making money if they want to survive and it would be far more unfortunate if they had to shut down because they fixated on the covers instead of the text. I like the covers but that is at least partly due to my time working a press, it gave me an appreciation for designs which understand printing. I don't really care about what is on the cover of books.
>>24723741>>24723776The lame covers seems like a bad cost-cutting measure, based on what you've described; they're not entirely uniform and evidently require some human effort to design per work (though I guess that cost is small relative to print costs). They could do better both in style and cost by going for something akin to Gallimard, where it's still simple and visually striking but actually tasteful.I'd rather buy the Tunnel with a cover like pic related than circleslop.
>>24723959Exactly, I want the books I collect to be nigh the best versions of that book, or at least very presentable, this one I'd just feel bad giving 25 euro for.
>>24723220Will we ever get the cover Gass described? I'd pay double
>>24724085Honestly reading up on his notes about it, it seems like you could DIY or pay some bookbinder to do it with a copy you send them. All chalkboard black everything, maybe with the title vertically on the spine, in accordance with the notes, if you wanted, probably wouldn't cost an arm and a leg. Or again watch a YouTube video, buy a paperback and DIY. Be the change you want to see. Can't rely on Dalkey to do it for you anymore. If you git gud, you can whore your wares.
>>24724469>If you git gud, you can whore your wares>selling bootlegs of the Tunnel on Etsy$400 for a premium copy with the barbed wire. I was going to say Dalkey would take your ass to court, but I guess you're fine so long as the interior is in fact from an official print.
>>24723220oh i thought you meant an actual tunnel
>>24723220Weird. I got my copy for around 30 bucks on amazon like four years ago, but it does look like they are not available nowadaysI wonder why
>>24725049Yes, I was also surprised to see this thread, it was well available just recently. Maybe they're pulling it to shift to the new release? I think it got delayed, too, so I suppose I got very lucky with the timing
>>24725167Seriously? Don't say that...
>takes plotfagging to such an extreme they can only talk about the physical book itself>can't even talk about plot>at best just bring up plot points as autistic argument
>>24726415>plotThe Tunnel is about the hole in your wallet, you absolute pseud. The fascism of the heart a metaphor for being broke, of course. Plotfags will never understand.
>>24726568You might have had something had you put in a tiny bit of effort.
>>24723220I bought one on abebooks for $25 maybe around 2020. Surprised that it's as pricey as it is, even in paperback. Mine was unread dead stock
>>24726568>t. interprets fiction through secondary sources
>>24726607?
>>24723220what's the different between The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato and The Tunnel by William H. Gasssomeone recommended The Tunnel once and I picked the Spanish one, still not sure if I was reading the right book
>>24727106About all they have in common is that they are both novels. The tunnel imagery sort of, but not really.
I saw that exact edition for like 15 dollars in mexico and didn't get it. I regret it now.
>>24727106>what's the different between The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato and The Tunnel by William H. GassWhat do you mean? They're completely different books. Sabato's tunnel is about a young lonely artist who falls in love with a slutty women and then bad things happen. Pretty short and straightforward. Gass's tunnel, I haven't read, but it's a much complex and longer novel, thematically and stylistically (from what I've heard).
>>24726819Majority of secondary material is written by critics and for critics, it assumes you more or less understood. Criticism mostly treats interpretation as banal, any work which is worth reading will get its point across well enough that most anyone in criticism will understand so criticism mostly explores other things, like interpreting a work through a single phrase that was repeated a couple times. People who rely on secondary sources for forming their interpretation often get fixated on a secondary source for one reason or another and don't understand that the secondary source is not an interpretation, it is an analysis. You can almost reduce The Tunnel to "fascism of the heart," and in the right company it could be enough, but it will not to put anyone who reduces it to that, on the ropes. /lit/ is not the right company and that anon's post strongly suggests not having a clue.
>>24727342Why do you think saying the Tunnel was about being broke was anything more than a joke? I pulled out a token phrase and made a contrived analogy out of the title about copies being expensive right now.
