Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko
perfect, glorious, flawless. i should only read 100 page bleak novellas
Tag: translation
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Enard
a glorious, cacophonous, collage of varied delights and pleasure
Julian by Fleur Pierets
a deeply moving portrait of grief slowly becomes a cold exercise in self-aggrandisement
Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
pointless, underwritten, characterless character study that confuses naming emotive experiences with describing them; flat
I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux (The Nobel Lecture)
a tiny book containing Ernaux’s Nobel address and some bumpf
The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika
on blogging, on genocide, on the dangers of forgiveness
Adorable by Ida Marie Hede
reflections-on-a-serious-book-as-i-begin-my-journey-to-the-west
Resistance by Julian Fuks
quite a serious shortish book it’s easy to make sound good (which doesn’t mean it was???)
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
a 1980s historical novel….. FROM EGYPT!?!?!?!?
Aseroë by François Dominique
dull, preening, “literature” with no redeeming features (for me)
The Employees – a workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn
a terrifying future draws grim parallels to the present
Can the monster speak? by Paul B. Preciado
arguments to make the world better in language that can only make it worse
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
speculative short essay that proposes the historic existence of shame-free desire
Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre
If you do not feel or even believe in love, then how and why would you bring others into the nightmare that is existence?
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
POETRY MONTH: [partial reading from years ago of] Float by Anne Carson
a partial reading from 4/5 years ago, previously unpublished
Andrea Víctrix by Llorenç Villalonga
a “lost masterpiece” that deserved to be forgotten
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
a bleak, beautiful, japanese novel[la]
Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
the lockdown continues and nothing changes
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
yes it is good and i got to read it slightly early and for free
the story of the lost child by elena ferrante
two and a half months ago i read an incredible novel
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
fell orf my bike boohoo
the governesses by anne serre
parkdale in the pandemic
The Years by Annie Ernaux
cracking under lockdown and stunning books
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas
very early protest against colonialism
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
some naughty naughty monks
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
a cracking novella about a terrible murderous marriage
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
Finding Time Again (À la recherche du temps perdu 7) by Marcel Proust
bye bye marcel, marcel bye bye
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
it’s good though it’s very optimistic
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
a wonderful, unpretentious, essay on translation
Tango for a Torturer by Daniel Chavarría
read a trash thriller i’ve owned for a decade. fun ‘n’ frothy – and so’s the book I read lolol
The End (My Struggle Book Six) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
endings are never easy
The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt
dated dutch children’s fiction
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
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
my thoughts on literature and class
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
Poem 66 by Susana Medina
a Wide Sargasso Sea for Lolita
Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
it’s not love if u pretend they don’t shit
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
i read a book that’s aged badly and reflect on bad times
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel
a literary memoir on translation
Triumph Of The Now 