TMR 23.1: “Book Three” [Lanark]
Mostly a set-up episode about Alasdair Gray and Lanark, in which Chad, Kaija, and Brian discuss the introduction (weird), the start of the novel (which opens with "Book 3"), the influence of Dante's Divine Comedy and Kafka, and much more. There are some good laughs, a bit of insight into where we are, all building toward ...
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The Year in Translations (So Far): "Baba Yaga Laid an Egg" by Dubravka Ugresic
Earlier this week I was on the Wisconsin Public Radio show Here On Earth to make some international literature summer reading recommendations. We weren’t able to cover the full list of books I came up with, so I thought I’d post about them one-by-one over the next couple weeks with additional info, why these ...
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Latest Review: The Howling Miller
Our latest review is of Arto Paasilinna’s The Howling Miller, which was recently published by Canongate. The Howling Miller tells the story of Gunnar Huttunen, a mysterious miller who shows up in the remote northern Finnish province of Lapland and buys and repairs a run-down mill that the locals had all but ...
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A Translation of a Translation
I have to admit that I was surprised to see this info line in today’s PW fiction review section: The Howling Miller Arto Paasilinna, trans. from the Finnish into French by Anne Colin du Terrail; trans. from the French by Will Hobson. Canongate, $14 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-84767-181-3 One would think that with ...
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