Am I a Redundant Human Being?
The Austrian actress, writer, and painter Mela Hartwig (1893–1967) published relatively little during her lifetime: a collection of stories, a novel, a novella, and a book of poems. She did most of this work between 1921, when she married and retired from acting, and 1938, when she and her husband moved to London to escape ...
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Snakebite: Flaubert, Translation, and the Imprint of the Real
Where: University of Chicago, Rosenwald 405, Chicago, IL Esther Allen, The 2010–11 Dedmon Writer-in-Residence As the birth of photography made visual artists increasingly anxious about realism, Flaubert devised realist novels that claimed an impersonal, photographic, and near-scientific detachment from their subject ...
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Selected Shorts: Roberto Bolano and the Writers He Admired
Where: Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NY, NY $27; Member $23; 30 & Under $15 An evening of stories by the late Chilean master (The Savage Detectives, 2666) and writers who inspired him, including stories that appeared in The New Yorke_r as well as pieces by Javier MarÃas, Nicanor Parra, and Jorge Luis ...
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Petition for Portuguese Translation Support
Just received this call for support of the Portuguese translation programs and thought some of you might be interested in knowing about this and/or signing the petition. It goes without saying that this sort of support is invaluable. Without organizations and programs like this, the publication of literature in translation ...
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Ledig House Roundtable
Where: Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library, °µÍø³Ô¹Ï Four International Writers in Residence at the Ledig House will read from their works and discuss literary trends from around the world. (free and open to the ...
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Fake Poets, Falsely Translated [Promoting The Ambassador]
As some of you might know, Bragi Olafsson’s new book — The Ambassador — released a couple weeks back. It’s an incredibly fun book centering around the journey of Icelandic poet Sturla Jon Jonsson to poetry festival in Lithuania where he loses his overcoat, steals someone else’s, is accused of ...
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RTWCS: Ledig House Special
Our next Reading the World Conversation Series event takes place tomorrow and features four international authors currently at the Ledig House, a wonderful residency program for international writers. The event takes place at 6 p.m. in the Hawkins-Carlson room in °µÍø³Ô¹Ï’s Rush Rhees library. Totally ...
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