Bernard Malamud in 1985. Joyce Carol Oates (TLS), Bernard Malamud, tireless craftsman: “When Bernard Malamud was in his late fifties, a Pulitzer Prizewinner (for The Fixer, 1966) and National Book Award winner twice over (for the story collection The Magic Barrel, 1959, and The Fixer), at the height of his acclaim and yet, as always, [...]
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Philip Davis: Bernard Malamud. A writer’s life.
December 20th, 2007
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L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque, Eros au secret.
December 5th, 2007
Bibliothèque Nationale, L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque, Eros au secret (pdf): Dans les années 1830, les ouvrages imprimés dits « contraires aux bonnes moeurs » publiés sous le manteau, poursuivis ou condamnés, sont séparés du reste des collections de la Bibliothèque royale et rassemblés afin de constituer une section distincte intitulée Enfer et conservée à la [...]
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Kalima Translation
November 22nd, 2007
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037) (Wikipedia) Kalima Translation: “Every year Kalima will select 100 candidate titles of classic, contemporary and modern writing from around the world to be translated into Arabic.” The Guardian, Translation project to bring cream of foreign writers to Arabs: “The first 100 are from 16 languages, including Greek, Japanese, Swedish, Czech, Russian, [...]
Tags: arab · history · kalima · literature · philosophy · science · translation
Céline vivant
November 21st, 2007
Céline vivant – 2 dvd, 1932 à 1969, 177 min, couleurs. (via)
Tags: literature · louis ferdinand céline · video
The London Library
November 16th, 2007
The Daily Telegraph: “The handsome house in the corner of St James’s Square, which now has 8,000 members and one million books, has for the past 160 years been the best ‘place on the civilised earth’, but it no longer caters for those who are ‘not rich’. Carlyle’s insistence that readers pay only a ‘small [...]
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Ready Made Terrorism
November 13th, 2007
The Guardian, Terrible poet, laughable terrorist: “Kamoze Ini’s Lyrical Gangster ditty kept popping in to my head last week every time Samina Malik, the “lyrical terrorist“, flashed by on a news bulletin. To be honest both the Lyrical Gangster and the lyrical terrorist have about as much to do with poetry or terrorism as each [...]
Tags: literature · poetry · samina malik · terrorism
A Dutch Nabokov or Calvino
November 1st, 2007
Slate, Paradise Lost: “Why is it not acceptable, for example, for me to write “the novelist Cees Nooteboom,” without having to attach that ubiquitous appendage, “the Dutch novelist Cees Nooteboom”? Because we assume his novels express some trace or essence of Dutchness, some distinct, if ineffable, coloring that makes them necessarily different from German, Swedish, [...]
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