Stevie B
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Not sure if you're being playful or if this is a literary equivalent to "Get off my lawn!"
Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 Speculation
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The Common Reader
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This sounds fascinating! I assume you read
- Lecturas de los rehenes [人質の朗読会]. Traducción de Juan Francisco González Sánchez. (Ed. Funambulista, 2016)
Daniel del Real
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That's right, this house has published fifteen titles of her already. I think it's way more than what she has available in English translations.
Also The Memory Police has been recently published by one of the two brands of the duopoly.
The Common Reader
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I highly recommend it! That at least has been translated into English, very recently in fact. Here is an interesting review that gives a good sense of what Ogawa is grappling with in the novel without revealing too much of the plot: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-curse-of-memory-yoko-ogawas-the-memory-police/
Dante
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I've had read The Stranger alone years ago and I quite liked it. I took it again right after reading The Myth of Sisyphus and it blew my mind.
That book is both a masterpiece and a literary compendium of Camus' philosophy.
Morbid Swither
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It’s basically my Holy Grail lol ?
It’s actually one of five books that, if they were somehow all available in one place, all sorts of Dostoyevsky-ian horrors would ensue. I would have to have them!
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nagisa
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The joys of being an old forum hand ?
It's good to know when you're not vibing with a book or author, and good to revisit them down the line
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Reposting this from some years back:
They'll be updating the website with Tokarczuk, Handke, and Glück's books this autumn! Very exciting.
They'll be updating the website with Tokarczuk, Handke, and Glück's books this autumn! Very exciting.
ministerpumpkin
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I'd be fascinated to know what the other four are, especially since I've been on a Dostoevsky kick the last year or so!
Stevie B
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I know Dave (tiganeasca) is looking for it, too. He probably has a better chance finding it in Chicago than I do in the Twin Cities (unless I strike a bargain with Mephistopheles first). The sad thing is that I owned a like new copy of The Third Bank on the River years ago, but traded it away without really knowing how uncommon that book is. I once started a thread on great books we let slip through our fingers. At least I can console myself that it wasn't Backland.
Bartleby
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Just stopping by to remind y'all (as many others have done before) to perhaps wait for Alison Entrekin's translation of Guimarães Rosa's novel, a more faithful one. It might take a while to see the light of day, but it should be worth it
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Playing Frankenstein: An Interview with Alison Entrekin
ALISON ENTREKIN <br> That’s a doozy. It’s a work in progress, and I think the title will be the very last thing we decide on. And it might well depend, as in any kind of novel, on what comes up in the translation. As a title it is extremely hard to translate verbatim.
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Stevie B
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Interesting to read that the book is so challenging to translate that a day where 500 words are translated qualifies as great progress.Just stopping by to remind y'all (as many others have done before) to perhaps wait for Alison Entrekin's translation of Guimarães Rosa's novel, a more faithful one. It might take a while to see the light of day, but it should be worth it
Playing Frankenstein: An Interview with Alison Entrekin
ALISON ENTREKIN <br> That’s a doozy. It’s a work in progress, and I think the title will be the very last thing we decide on. And it might well depend, as in any kind of novel, on what comes up in the translation. As a title it is extremely hard to translate verbatim.
Morbid Swither
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LOL
Almost Transparent Blue; Ryū Murakami
The Ship; Hans Henny Jahn
Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers; Pierre Guyotat
The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills; William Saroyan
and of course Devil to Pay…
Morbid Swither
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Thank you so much for sharing this, Bartleby !Just stopping by to remind y'all (as many others have done before) to perhaps wait for Alison Entrekin's translation of Guimarães Rosa's novel, a more faithful one. It might take a while to see the light of day, but it should be worth it
Playing Frankenstein: An Interview with Alison Entrekin
ALISON ENTREKIN <br> That’s a doozy. It’s a work in progress, and I think the title will be the very last thing we decide on. And it might well depend, as in any kind of novel, on what comes up in the translation. As a title it is extremely hard to translate verbatim.
I’ll add to the list of translations to keep an eye out for, just under The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek, Világló részletek (“Illuminating Parts”) by Peter Nádas, and Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu!
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Martino
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What an interesting selection, dear Morbid! I heard Pierre Guyotat pens very graphic descriptions...João Gilberto Noll as well. Do you read him in Portuguese?
Morbid Swither
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Only in English, I can handle some French and German, as I took courses in these in college! The last French work I read was Si longue lettre by Mariama Bâ.
Morbid Swither
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Especially now that Amos Oz has passed, there seems to be a consensus that David Grossman would be the premier Hebrew candidate. However, just to consider what other’s might think on the subject, are there any members familiar with contemporary Hebrew literature who feel differently? Other Hebrew authors I have enjoyed are Etgar Keret, Orly Castle-Bloom, Dror Burstein, Yoel Hoffman and A.B. Yehoshua.
Morbid Swither
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One more thing, it surprises me/disappoints me that Native American literature has not had much love on this forum. And maybe that’s not true, perhaps it’s just that caught up in speculation, we obviously gravitate to the biggest names within the discussion. But it is a bit odd to me that such a vibrant literature has yet to produce a strongly advocated recipient for the Prize. Writers such as Erdrich seem like obvious choices, but surely Navarre Scott Momaday, Leslie Mormon Silko (perhaps she would be a controversial choice to some), Joy Harjo, or actually Sherman Alexie (who I think is an awesome writer) seem totally ignored.
No activity at the library for any of these, which I suppose explains that.
Update: Referring to Alexie’s Wikipedia entry, evidently he, too, has been accused by multiple women of sexual harassment. So never mind! I didn’t know anything about this prior to my post. Yet again, depressed and horrified that someone I admired just can’t keep his hands to himself.
No activity at the library for any of these, which I suppose explains that.
Update: Referring to Alexie’s Wikipedia entry, evidently he, too, has been accused by multiple women of sexual harassment. So never mind! I didn’t know anything about this prior to my post. Yet again, depressed and horrified that someone I admired just can’t keep his hands to himself.
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Nirvrithi
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Now that Oz is out of reckoning, the toss should be between Grossman and Yehoshua (if Israel is in contention this year). I would go for Yehoshua if you evaluate both authors based on entire body of work.
Daniel del Real
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I agree, Yehoshua's Mr. Mani is a perfectly tuned masterpiece of narrative technique. However he is a very old man already at 84.
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