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What the Emperor Cannot Do: Tales and Legends of the Orient by Vlas DoroshevichTranslated by Rowen Glie (in collaboration with Ronald M. Landau) and John DeweyGlas New Russian Writing: 2012 (Volume 53)ISBN 978-5-7172-0094-3 Earlier this year I expressed my admiration for the works of Anatoly Mariengof published by Glas (Cynics and A Novel Without Lies). […]
Blogger tells me this is my 1,000th post on this site. So I’ll pass along a picture I took today while the boys and I were touring the mining museum in New Almaden, California. I just wish I had a book with me to drop in the lending library. If you’d like to learn about […]
A Literary History of Alabama: The Nineteenth Century by Benjamin Buford Williams Associated University Presses, Inc.: Cranbury, New Jersey, 1979 ISBN: 0-8386-2054-X This post is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ben and Marilyn Williams. I consider myself fortunate to have been friends of theirs. This study is a biographical, bibliographical, generic, critical, and chronological […]
Primo Levi’s Universe: A Writer’s Journey by Sam Magavern Foreword by Jonathan Rosen, Afterword by Risa Sodi Palgrave Macmillan: New York City, 2009 ISBN 978-0-230-60647-0 [W]hen we read all of Levi’s writings together, we find that he has woven a great and terrifying testament, one of the most vital bodies of work in modern literature. […]
I had tentative plans for November to post on American women authors but I was sidetracked, willingly, into reading more books by and about Primo Levi. I plan to post on If This Is a Man and The Truce and three movies (Primo Levi’s Journey, The Truce, and Primo Mysteries) during the month. I’ll start […]
I’ll have some posts soon on the books I’m reading but they will take a couple of days. In the meantime, here’s a perfect fall meal accompaniment. It takes a lot of time to prepare but I vouch that it is well worth it. Dial back the Chimayo pepper to your own taste. Blue Corn […]
Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul R. Gregory Hoover Institution Press: Stanford, California, October 2013 Hardcover, 264 pages ISBN 9780817915742I have not posted on much of the non-fiction I’ve read this year, something I’m determined to correct starting with this marvelous history/memoir by Paul Gregory. Links: There is plenty of […]
Relations by Zsigmond Móricz Translated by Bernard Adams Introduction by George F. Cushing Corvina Books, Ltd. (2007) ISBN 978 963 13 5524 6Posts: “The only relation to love is the one that’s of use to you”: problems in post-World War I Hungary Lina and Magdaléna Solutions? Introduction to Móricz and the novel My notes Another […]
Zsigmond Móricz Relations by Zsigmond MóriczTranslated by Bernard AdamsIntroduction by George F. CushingCorvina Books, Ltd. (2007)ISBN 978 963 13 5524 6 In my first post on Relations, I included Móricz’s idea for the novel: When he began to write it Móricz declared, “I postulated the idea that in every family there is one man, the […]
Advertisement for Rokonok (Relations) by Zsigmond Móricz Picture source at Wikimedia CommonsRelations by Zsigmond Móricz Translated by Bernard Adams Introduction by George F. Cushing Corvina Books, Ltd. (2007) ISBN 978 963 13 5524 6 Another quick post that ended up being waaaay, too long. Please accept my semi-apology. Women in Relations play an important role […]
Relations by Zsigmond MóriczTranslated by Bernard AdamsIntroduction by George F. CushingCorvina Books, Ltd. (2007)ISBN 978 963 13 5524 6 The original intent was that this post would have been two or three separate posts, but time constraints put an end to that plan. So I’ll apologize for the length of this post in […]
Zsigmond Móricz (1935)Picture source at Wikimedia Commons Before I begin posting on Zsigmond Móricz’s Relations I thought I would include a post looking at the author and the introduction to the book written by George F. Cushing (Corvina Books, Ltd.; 2007). I’ll have to admit I had not heard of Zsigmond Móricz until I picked […]
I try to keep blegs to a minimum but your help would be much appreciated on this. I’m hoping to help a photographer friend that is pulling together some photos of Native American ruins, rustic barns, etc. in a ‘vanishing America’ type of album. She would love to pair poems, or parts of poems, or […]
The cover of the first edition of Prae (1934) This will be my final post devoted to notes and quotes on the Hyperion issue devoted to Miklós Szentkuthy. Filip Sikorski’s “Introductory Remarks on Miklós Szentkuthy’s Prae” provides a synopsis of the novel, looks at its main themes, investigates how it can be read non-linearly, and […]
I didn’t mean to disappear for a couple of weeks but it happened. I’ll try and get back on track tomorrow with the final post on the Hyperion edition devoted to Miklós Szentkuthy, including a few notes on the wonderful excerpt from Black Renaissance. To hold my feet to the fire, I’ll follow up with […]
Continuing with my notes and quotes on the Hyperion issue devoted to Miklós Szentkuthy… I’m not going to post much about István Vas’ article “Miklós Szentkuthy: a True Avant-Gardist”, although I do recommend reading it for his insight into the author and his work. I will draw attention to this extended quote since it highlights […]
Photo by András Szebeni Picture sourceIn my previous post on a collection of Szentkuthy links, I mentioned the Hyperion issue, devoted to Szentkuthy. Three articles have “mask” in the title (and other articles mention the word, too): “Masks Behind Masks: A Portrait of Miklós Szentkuthy” by András Nagy, “Behind the Mask and Under the Surface: […]
Since my notes on several books I’ve read have been lost, I thought I would start posting on what I’m currently reading…which is many articles about Miklós Szentkuthy as well as the recently released translation of Towards the One and Only Metaphor. Instead of having 20 tabs open in my browser I’m going to collect […]
Well, the play is over but I thought I would share this clip from Shakespeare Santa Cruz on The Taming of the Shrew. In it are Gretchen Hall (Kate), Fred Arsenault (Petruchio / Christopher Sly), and Edward Morgan (Director). They get to the heart of the play in the first sentence when mentioning […]
My computer died today. And then I made sure the damn thing was dead. Deader than dead. And then some. Not that he was waiting for the letter, but Michael Dell will not be receiving an invitation to any of our parties any time soon. But then that’s been true for the past few years […]