Poetics of Work by Noemi Lefebvre
rare writing depicting middle class rootlessness not as tragedy
Tag: translated
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
yes it is good and i got to read it slightly early and for free
The Years by Annie Ernaux
cracking under lockdown and stunning books
Lost Time by Józef Czapski
a touch of proust
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza
i read a book wrong / nothing compares 2 Proust
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
a wonderful, unpretentious, essay on translation
Farewell, Cowboy by Olja Savičević
some more great balkan writing
Tentacle by Rita Indiana
a fantastic contemporary novella
Now, Now, Louison by Jean Frémon
an enjoyable but intellectually presumptive novella
From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami
a big novel that’s surprisingly worthwhile
The Bridge Over The Drina by Ivo Andrić
One of the most important and engaging novels I’ve ever read, a sprawling fictional exploration not of a specific person,Continue Reading
Tell Them Of Battles, Kings and Elephants by Mathias Enard
high grade historical fiction and the blogger hits some snags
Hansen’s Children by Ognjen Spahić
leprosy fiction from the balkans
Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
it’s not love if u pretend they don’t shit
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel
a literary memoir on translation
Tres by Roberto Bolaño
A glimmer of hope: I am almost able to read in Spanish.
Yesenin: The Selected by Sergei Yesenin
Recently, I’ve been trying to cut down the massive piles of unread books in my house. By reading them, notContinue Reading
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño
The Skating Rink, or La Pista Del Hielo, was Roberto Bolaño’s first novel. It was published in Spanish in 1993 andContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 