I enjoy a... kind of... intellectual film... with titties which is very European.
Based on that image, I'd say "a kind of intellectual fiction which is very European" translates as "The women have serious discussions about Wittgenstein, and Olga loses her panties in the first chapter."
Simplicissimus is one of their top ten titles?!
I guess this
Dedalus has invented its own distinctive genre, which we term distorted reality, where the bizarre, the unusual, the grotesque and the surreal meld in a kind of intellectual fiction which is very European
sounds not unrelated to the picaresque.
I dunno, Blume, the description by Mann makes it sound pretty entertaining.
For a moment, I thought you were referring to this publisher and wondering why you thought them "very European".
Oh, it's hilarious in its way (though still overlong). But Germans are also perhaps more attached to it than non-Germans could ever be, in that The-30-Years-War-Happened-to-Us! sort of way.
The fact that it's spelt "Dedalus" doesn't exactly scream European.
Extremely European: Maurice Girodias
Very European: Mme. Sarkozy
European: M. Sarkozy
Slightly European: Tony Blair
Not European: Stan Lee
That particular combination of underwear and shoes seems rather German to me.
Is that a common bookstore name? We have one.
Icarus Books went out of business after that scandal with the binding glue on their big multi-volume history of the orrery.
It turns out I lied. Only their web page background has failed.
I was hoping that it was related to This Daedalus, although it turns out there are a lot of things with that name.
Very European: Mme. Sarkozy
You think so? I knew who she was before I ever heard of him. Bruni = International. Sarkozy = Provincial. (But I def agree with Girodias and Lee.)
19: To me she looks, speaks and moves like the height of a certain sort of unlimitedly seductive European femininity.
The fact that it's spelt "Dedalus" doesn't exactly scream European.
Stephen Dedalus was European.
21: So were Daedalus and Icarus and, if I recall correctly, most of Daedalus' patrons.
The Arabian Nightmare is good fun, Neb. You should read it!
To me she looks, speaks and moves like the height of a certain sort of unlimitedly seductive European femininity.
Yes, that makes so much more sense to me in the sober light of morning.