Not for sale in Estonia! "In the beginning was the pun", Samuel Beckett once wrote. And so it was that Georges Perec brought the good word to his friends and acquaintances on a yearly basis, as an expression of his best wishes for the New Year. "Wi...

Not for sale in Estonia! First discovered, celebrated and published by the Surrealists at the age of 14 (they declared her the "new Alice"), Gisele Prassinos quickly found herself established in the literary world as a fount of automatic tales frei...

Not for sale in Estonia! "The Pig is the Sun..." So begins Oskar Panizza's outrageously heretical and massively erudite essay on the pig, originally published in 1900 in his journal Zurich Discussions. Moving from the Rig Veda to the Edda to Ovid,...

Not for sale in Estonia! A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, "The Leg of Lamb" brings together the arch-Surrealist Benjamin Peret's short prose: a smorgasbord of automatic writing and fantastical narratives employing everything from th...

Not for sale in Estonia! One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday – "what happens", as he put it, "when nothing happens". His choice of locale was Place Sa...