Harry Mathews: Yksityisiä iloja. Basam Books 2010.

I have always said that my ideal reader would be someone who after finishing one of my novels would throw it out the window, presumably from an upper floor of an apartment building in New York, and by the time it had landed would be taking the elevator down to retrieve it.

I suppose I must have had dreams of greater recognition, but Ive always had the audience I wanted, and that was the audience that reads poetry. What I want is enthusiasm among friends and their friends, people who I know are serious readers.

Harry Mathews (1930-2017)

Yksityisiä iloja. Basam Books 2010. Nidottu, erinomainen kunto, 143 sivua. Kuvittanut Francesco Clemente. Suomentanut Taija Mård.