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Three Percent has published Mikhail Shishkin’s April tour in the U.S. As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m attending the April 4 event at the Hotel Rex in San Francisco, which will include translator Marian Schwartz, too. If anyone would like to meet up before the event just drop me a line. From the […]
Another post from the Institute of Contemporary Arts recordings. This one is from May 17, 1990, with Julian Barnes introducing and conversing (through a translator) with Bohumil Hrabal (unfortunately the link to the conversation no longer works). The “conversation” is a little disjointed at times because of the need for translation, changes in plans on […]
I have enjoyed listening to some of the Institute of Contemporary Arts talks and wanted to share some notes on some of these recordings over the next few weeks. In this case it is William Gaddis talking with Malcolm Bradbury on February 20, 1986, soon after the release of Carpenter’s Gothic (unfortunately all the links […]
Diary of a Humiliated Man by Félix de Azúa Translated from the Spanish by Julie Jones Cambridge: Brookline Books, 1996 (Spanish publication – 1987) ISBN: 157129029X / 978-1571290298 At present I’m living here like a stranger, in spite of the fact that I’ve been an inhabitant of this city ever since I’ve had use of […]
Opening of De rerum natura, 1483 copy by Girolamo di Matteo de Tauris for Pope Sixtus IV Picture source Thanks to David Meadows at rogueclassicism for pointing to the series of articles at The Guardian on Lucretius and his De rerum natura. I enjoyed many parts of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became […]
After both boys got the stomach crud it’s my turn and the last thing I feel like doing is reading or posting. I will add a few notes, though. I won’t get to posting about the Introduction of Paideia: the Ideals of Greek Culture (Volume 1) by Werner Jaeger for a few days. In the […]
The Flower Show / The Toth Family by István Örkény (New York City: New Directions, 1982) Matraszentanna is a small mountain town, so small, in fact, that it has no indoor plumbing. Anyone wishing an inside flush toilet has to install his own private pump. Only Professor Cipriani, the proud owner of the town’s one […]
The Flower Show / The Toth Family by István Örkény (New York City: New Directions, 1982) Although the scene and characters [of The Flower Show] are those of Budapest, the idea behind them came to Örkény in New York. Switching on the television set on the last day of a visit to America, he happened […]
Another YouTube videos post, where the videos have under 1,000 views, this time related to Andrei Platonov. I guess there is a tie-in between the previous post and this one: Vasily Grossman gave the main speech at the funeral of Platonov. The first video is Alexander Petrov’s animation of the Platonov story “The Cow” (which […]
Richard at Caravana de recuerdos has recently covered Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, a novel I give my highest recommendation to without any hesitation (see here for the summary of my posts on the novel). Both of us read the NYRB edition, translation by Robert Chandler. While poking around recently some of Chandler’s other translations […]