Sanctify Yourself

In the summer of 2024, Deep Vellum, a Dallas-based press, announced a program to bring out “badass avant-garde masterpieces that would otherwise not be translated or published.” Kicking things off would be a trio of postmodern thousand-plus-page magnum opuses: a Pynchonian quintet by the Catalan writer Miquel de Palol, a surreal and meditative trilogy by the Italian writer Antonio Moresco and a singular contemporary novel “like no other” by the German writer Michael Lentz, which was also to be the venture’s maiden publication.