The Walk
For the narrator of Robert Walserās The Walk, walking is the better part of writing. Shortly before declaring his arrival at āsomething like the peakā of this 90-page Pearl from New Directions (translated by Christopher Middleton and Susan Bernofskyāmore on that in a second), Walserās narrator delivers a brilliant ...
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No More Latvian Funtimes [FuckyeahEurovision!]
The second Eurovision semi-finals kick off in less than an hour, by which time I was hoping to have posted another set of overviews and predictions from Janis Stirna, our Eurovision correspondent. Unfortunately, Janis went dark after it was announced on Tuesday that Latvia DIDN’T make it to the finals. (Which, is ...
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Rossica Prize Goes to John Elsworth
Yesterday, Academic Rossica announced that the winner of the 2012 Rossica Translators Award is John Elsworth for his translation of Andrei Bely’s Petersburg. I was really pulling for Helen Anderson and Konstantin Gurevich and their new translation of The Golden Calf, in part because it’s one of our books (and ...
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The Brummstein
By examining the minute connections, unlikely coincidences, and painstaking natural processes that give shape to the daily world, the work of Danish author Peter Adolphsen encapsulatesāboth in form and contentāBlakeās image of āa world in a grain of sand.ā This has never been more literally true than in his most ...
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Very Short List: World in Translation Month
The people at Very Short List were kind enough to ask me to put together a special list featuring items related to World in Translation Month. For anyone who doesn’t know, VSL started a few years ago with a very simple idea: every day subscribers would receive an email highlighting one cool and interesting thing. ...
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Jedward! You Make My Ear-Eyes Bleed [FuckyeahEurovision]
Two Janis Stirna posts in one day! This is quite a treat! Anyway, he sent this in to me less than half an hour ago, with just enough time for me to get it online before the semi-finals kick off. Again, if you haven’t read his earlier pieces, you can find them here, here, and here. And I’ll be back with some more ...
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The Most Serene Republic of Eurovisioning [FuckyeahEurovision!]
Today is the day of the first Eurovision semi-final! (Which you can watch live on the Eurovision.tv site.) To celebrate, we have a new post from Janis about six more contestants participating today. If you missed his earlier posts be sure and read his introduction to Eurovision and his take on the first six contestants. And ...
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