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Character list for “Kozma: A Tragedy” by Mihály Kornis A Mirror to the Cage: Three Contemporary Hungarian Plays Edited and Translated by Clara Györgyey Introduction by Ervin C. Brody Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1993 ISBN 1557282676 The final play in A Mirror to the Cage: Three Contemporary Hungarian Play, Mihály Kornis’ “Kozma: A […]
Thanks to Michael Stein at literalab for his notice that Twisted Spoon Press’ tumblr had published an excerpt from their forthcoming release The Legs of Izolda Morgan. (Note: excerpt has been changed to “Polish Futurism (an Accounting)”) The Hungarian Electronic Library may no longer be active but it still has several translated works available online, including […]
Character list for “The Imposter” by György Spiró A Mirror to the Cage: Three Contemporary Hungarian Plays Edited and Translated by Clara Györgyey Introduction by Ervin C. Brody Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1993 ISBN 1557282676 This is one of my favorite plays I have read lately and one I would love to see […]
Character list for “Stevie in the Bloodbath: A Grotesque Play in Two Parts” by István Örkény A Mirror to the Cage: Three Contemporary Hungarian Plays Edited and Translated by Clara Györgyey Introduction by Ervin C. Brody Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1993 ISBN 1557282676 Motto: This age, our parent—executioner provisioned us with a bitter […]
Poison-Damsels and Other Essays in Folklore and Anthropology by N. M. Penzer London: Chas. J. Sawyer, 1952 The present four Essays are based on Appendixes originally published in my edition of C. H. Tawney’s Kathā-Sarit-Sāgara, which I called The Ocean of Story. Somewhat hidden in such a large work—it ran to ten volumes—and in view […]
After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge Emblems of Antiquity series Oxford University Press, 2013 ISBN: 9780199747320 Paul Cartledge’s name has been mentioned on this blog several times—he is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the Faculty of Classics at the University of […]
Here’s a note from Scott Esposito: I’d like to invite you all the come to this party on May 22 to celebrate the launch of Two Lines Press, San Francisco’s only (so far as I know) translation-only literary press. We just published our first two books! Even if literature isn’t you thing, this’ll still be […]
I recently discovered the Chief of U.K. Defence Staff’s Recommended Reading [Note: link not currently working] site and have been browsing through it. One book stood out since it addresses one of my favorites: Thucydides on Strategy [ditto] by Athanassios G. Platias and Konstantinos Koliopoulos. This slim volume shows that the theory of grand strategy […]
(From the YouTube description) Dr. Jeremy McInerny [sic], Professor of Classical Studies, examines the tactics and strategy of the Battle of Thermopylae (in present-day Greece) in 480 BCE. Why was the battle fought at this location and was it, as it is often portrayed, a turning point in the confrontation of East and West? This […]
I linked the short story “Calligraphy Lesson” in my post providing an outline/highlights of the May 4th event with Mikhail Shishkin and Marian Schwartz. Schwartz translated Shishkin’s short story and it was published at Words Without Borders. Be sure and read her Translator’s Note since it gives background to some challenging areas on translation. The […]