World Literature Tour: Germany
We’re a little late on this, but The Guardian’s World Literature Tour made its latest stop in
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Fare thee well, Mr. Fagles.
Robert Fagles, the renowned translator of Latin and Greek whose versions of Homer and Virgil were unlikely best sellers and became fixtures on classroom reading lists, died on Wednesday at his home in Princeton, N.J., where he was an emeritus professor at Princeton University. He was 74. Here’s the Times ...
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Latest Review: David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism
Our latest review is Eric Dickens’ examination of David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist
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TLS on Georges Simenon
Two startlingly similar short novels appeared in France in 1942, at the centre of each a conscienceless and slightly creepy young man, unattached and adrift, the perpetrator of a meaningless murder. One was Albert Camus’s L’Étranger, the other Georges Simenon’s La Veuve Couderc. Camus’s novel rose to become part ...
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Routledge to sponsor Dedalus?
We just got the following press release from Dedalus in our inbox: PRESS RELEASE Dedalus is proud to announce that Informa plc through its subsidiary company Routledge Books, an imprint of Taylor & Francis, will sponsor Dedalus for the next two years as part of Informa plc’s corporate responsibility ...
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Stephen Marche on Alain Robbe-Grillet
From Salon: The “new novel” or “nouveau roman,” as Robbe-Grillet defined and explained it in his famous 1963 essay, was high art at its unpalatably highest. It applied rules and regulations, opposed subjectivity and tried to dissolve plot and character into description. The approach was perceived, ...
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Lytal on new Kafka translation
In the Sun, Ben Lytal provides a brief overview to the new translation of Kafka’s stories by Michael Hofmann. It certainly sounds like it’s worth picking up, as are the Shocken translations he mentions, if you don’t have them already. Now a new volume, “Metamorphosis and Other Stories” ...
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