The text in the present volume is based on the first edition of Europe after the Rain, published by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd in 1965. The spelling and punctuation in the text have been anglicized, standardized, modernized and made consistent throughout.
The unusual paragraphing in the text – speakers following one another in the same paragraph – has been replicated from the first edition in order to follow the author’s wishes as closely as possible, preserving the aleatoric device and his professed wish to “cock a snook at the body of traditional literature”.