The Portuguese are notorious as a people somehow immersed in dreams, or at least prone to feeling the famous saudade (not wholly translatable by the word ‘nostalgia’) and so perhaps ‘fantasy’ has been a happy genre for their writers. (more...)
Dedalus began publishing on November 30th 1983. Our first list consisted of three first novels, one of which The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin has been translated into 15 languages and has found worldwide success.
Dedalus has invented its own distinctive genre, which we term distorted reality, where the bizarre, the unusual and the grotesque and the surreal meld in a kind of intellectual fiction which is very European.
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