Words Without Borders Book Club

By Chad Post | November 14th, 2007 | Articles | 0 Comment

Over at WWB, Michael Orthofer has a couple new posts in the month-long discussion of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Mandarins. The first is about the title story, and, well, it’s title: When I hear (read) Mandarins, especially in an East Asian context, I think: Chinese wise men. Something along those lines, anyway. ...