Bottom's Dream Fiction he makes his way through

he makes his way through a difficult and dangerous mountain pass

to the story of a man stalked through the streets by a stranger for no greater a crime than making eye contact

pimps and whores and poets

from Portugal to the Ukraine—featuring work by established authors such as Josef Winkler

Bottom's Dream Fiction he makes his way throughI have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was, says Bottom. I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it, Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidts rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or