Robert Zend

Selected Volumes:
Contents

From Zero to One

[Acknowledgments (with extract from Frigyes Karinthy)]
13 Pencil	47 Climate	76 More and More
14 Moment	48 Soiree	78 The Three Sons
15 Telephone Connection	50 Telegram	79 Fragment: a Man Who Angers Me
16 Circle	53 Relativity	80 Senseless Story
17 Solitude	54 Office Memo	85 3 Oil Paintings
19 Morning	55 Fish	86 Mirrors
20 Madness	56 Spheroid Poem	88 Arabella
22 Beyond the Cubicle	61 The Message	90 Administrative Error
28 Monday	62 Variation	93 When
29 The Legend of the Axe	63 Literary Criticism	94 Ars Poetica
30 The Little Rat	64 Symphonie Fantastique	95 After That
31 After Hanging: a Dream	66 3,000,000,000	96 Before Ascending
33 Requiescat	67 Seven Minutes	98 Tissues
34 Dark Ages	69 Cosmogonies	100 The Most Beautiful Things
35 Waking State	70 Recipe	102 Ariamata
45 Elevator	71 Meeting	108 Ghorjonah
46 Three Dimensional Fable	75 Nouveau Riche	109 Sign
		110 Growth
[Contemplating Zend, Glenn Gould, July 1972]

SOURCE: Zend, Robert. From Zero to One, translated by Robert Zend and John Robert Colombo. Mission, BC: The Sono Nis Press, 1973. 110 pp. + [1]. Drawing on jacket and on frontispiece by Marcel Marceau. Cover/flyleaves photo, quote, bio. Blurbs by John Robert Colombo, Robert Fulford, Norman McLaren, Phillis Webb, Marcel Marceau, Andrei Voznesensky.

Beyond Labels

1 Preface: 3 Labels

11 OLD POEMS	42 A Three-Word Definition of Love	83 DITTO POEMS
13 Something Different	43 Nothing	85 Introducing Dittos
15 America	46 Sonnet LXIX	87 Ditto Poems
16 Labour Pains	47 Prelude and Fugue	113 The Ultimate Ditto Poem
17 A Poem Love	51 Dragonfly
17 In My Dream	52 God Dead?	115 DROP POEMS
18 About Souls	53 Enigma	116 Drop Poems
18 Sharp	54 Mindscape
19 Man-Made Satellite	54 What the Poet Is	121 MY CITY
23 Eleven Years in Eleven Lines	55 Psalm	123 Front Cover Design
23 First Person	58 Untitled	124 Title Page Designs
24 Two Times Too	59 A Memory	126 In This City
24 The Difference	59 The Counsel	127 A Doodle of Toronto
25 Departure by Arrival	60 People	128 Return Tickets, 1-5
26 This Haiku	60 To a Workaholic	134 A City of Two Kinds
26 The Magellan Paradox	60 Utopia	135 401
26 Sunset	61 Lost	136 In Transit
27 Perhaps	62 Mene, Tekel	137 Torn in Toronto
28 Dead End	63 The Twilight People	138 Concrete Budapest
28 A German Lady Prepares for Bed	65 An Epistle to Leopardi	139 Concrete Toronto
29 A Love Letter	70 Time	140 Fused Personality
30 Quadrangle	71 At the Foot of the Sphinx	142 Budapestoronto
31 The Golden Rules	72 Prophecy	143 Back Cover Designs
35 The Line Runs On	72 The Next Day
36 Acknowledgements	73 Signal	145 EARLY HUNGARIAN TEXTS
36 Jinn	74 I Remember It	147 Funeral Sermon
37 Dialogue for One Voice	75 Century	149 Hymn on Death
39 From an Unwritten Diary	76 Sky Blue	151 On the Knowledge of God and Man
40 Universal Grief	76 Zoom-Out
40 Attitude	77 Space Ship	153 AUTHOR’S NOTES
41 The Precept
42 What It Is To Love

SOURCE: Zend, Robert. Beyond Labels, translated by Robert Zend and John Robert Colombo. Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1982. [10] + 158 pp. + [2]. Front cover (photo) by John Lloyd; design and artwork by Robert Zend. Final unnumbered page: one-liner testimonials by notables.

A Bouquet to Bip
A tribute to Marcel Marceau

[Introductory graphics]

Art History (to the Epoch Maker)

A Ditto Poem (to One With Whom I Cannot Speak in French)

The Time of Our Life (to the Poet of Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death)

My Silent Friend (to the Creator of Bip)

Bip (to Bip)

Origami Diagram (to the Humorist of The Sculptor)

Garden (to the Seer of The Creation of the World)

Godlive (to the Creator of The Hands)

Jeu d’échec

Chess [English version of above]

Khalif Harun Al Rashid (to the creator of The Maskmaker)

Nomograph (to a Friend with Whom I Like Doodling Together)

Spheroid Poem (to All Men in Marceau) translated from Hungarian by J. R. Colombo

Park (to the Creator of The Public Garden)

The Universalist (to the Style Pantomimist Who Can Tell Years in Minutes)

Bip/Hip/Hop (to the Illusionist who Created Bip the Illustionist)

Shift (to the Contemporary)

The Family Tree of the Alphabet (to the Author of Marcel Marceau Alphabet Book)

The Gallery (to the Creator of The Dream)

Nib (to the Creature/Creator)

The Drawing, Poem, and Zend During and After

SOURCE: Zend, Robert. “A Bouquet to Bip: A Tribute to Marcel Marceau,” Exile: A Literary Quarterly, Volume 1, Number 3 (Toronto, Exile Editions, 1972), pp. 93-123. With photos: (1) Zend & Marceau together, (2) same photo minus Zend. Much of this is in graphic form including actual text, as is the case with much of Zend’s work.

A Bunch of Proses

The Rock

Siseneg (The last chapter of the Elbib)

The Miracle

Meeting

The Super Calendar

Superdays

The Seasons of the Super Year

Robert Zend’s annotations: The Months of the Super-Year

Crumpled Space [graphic]

Confession [graphic]

The Heavenly Game

World’s Greatest Poet

The Key (by Jorge Luis Borges and Robert Zend)

SOURCE: Zend, Robert. “A Bunch of Proses,” Exile: A Literary Quarterly, Volume 2, Number 2 (Toronto, Exile Editions, 1974), pp. 40-67.

Daymares: Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time

Foreword by John Robert Colombo / ix

Metalostanza (Typescape) / 1

Introduction to an unpublished manuscript, entitled Selected Dreams / 3

A Dream about the Centre / 9

Day and Night (Tvpescape) / 13

Daymare / 15

The Dream Cycle / 21

The Rock / 23

Awakening from Dreams (Typescape) / 27

On the Terrace / 29

Armour / 35

Beyond the Fable Ocean / 41

Chapter Fifty-Six / 55

Aleph / 69

The End of the World / 77

Waiting / 83

Antihistory / 87

Apartment House / 91

Taviella / 97

Madouce, love poems / 103

Tusha and Time 119

My Baby Brother / 125

The King of Rubik / 133

The Ballade of Christian Gringoire / 147

Amun-Kufu (Typescape) / 161

Magellan’s Tombstone / 163

After I Die / 181

Afterword by Northrop Frye / 184

SOURCE: Zend, Robert. Daymares: Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time, edited by Brian Wyatt, foreword by John Robert Colombo, afterword by Northrop Frye. Vancouver: Cacanadadada Press, 1991. 186 pp.

Robert Zend’s Novel Novel Nicolette: Not Quite a Review
by R. Dumain

“5980 A.D.”
by Robert Zend, Esperanto translation R. Dumain

“Sign (for Ferenc Karinthy)” / “Signo”
by Robert Zend, Esperanto translation R. Dumain

Robert Zend (Hungarian-Canadian writer, 1929-1985): Dedications, Works, Links

Robert Zend en Esperanto

Futurology, Science Fiction, Utopia, and Alienation
in the Work of Imre Madách, György Lukács, and Other Hungarian Writers:
Select Bibliography

Frigyes & Ferenc Karinthy in English

Frigyes (Frederiko) Karinthy (1887-1938) en Esperanto

Offsite:

Robert Zend @ Reason & Society

Robert Zend @ Ĝirafo