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Archipelago-Books

Book Review: “The Barefoot Woman” — A Survivor’s Eulogy

The Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Archipelago-Books, Cockroaches, Jordan Stump, Scholastique Mukasonga, The Barefoot Woman

Poetry Review: “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania” — A Playful Polish Epic

In his exhilarating translation of Pan Tadeusz, Bill Johnston captures Adam Mickiewicz’s wild fluctuations of register and brilliant associative riffs. The volume recently won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry.

By: Eric Fishman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry., Archipelago-Books, Eric Fishman, Pan Tadeusz, The Last Foray in Lithuania

Book Review: “The Farm” — Obsessed With The Land

There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Archipelago-Books, Héctor Abad, Lucas Spiro, The Farm

Book Review: “Cockroaches” — A Gruesome Story, Memorably Told

Scholastique Mukasonga’s autobiography, Cockroaches, examines the three decades leading up to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: 1994 Rwanda massacre, Archipelago-Books, Cockroaches, Jordan Stump, Our Lady of the Nile, Rwands, Scholastique Mukasonga, translation

Book Interview: A New Take on Kafka — A Conversation with Peter Wortsman

The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Preview, World Books Tagged: Archipelago-Books, fiction-in-translation, Franz Kafka, german, Konundrum, Peter Wortsman, Selected Prose of Franz Kafka

Book Review: Antonio Tabucchi’s “Time Ages in a Hurry” — A Diary of Dreams

Antonio Tabucchi’s fluid style moves easily from realism to surrealism, banal conversation to poetic free association, reportage to allusion.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Antonio Tabucchi, Archipelago-Books, Culture Vulture, short stories, Time Ages in a Hurry

Book Review: At the Opaque Heart of Life — The Short Stories of Sait Faik

Sometimes called the “Turkish Balzac” and, more often, the “Turkish Chekhov,” Sait Faik actually had a literary vision all his own.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A Useless Man, Archipelago-Books, Maureen Freely, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Turkish, Turkish Literature

Poetry Review: Rediscovering Aimé Césaire — The Politics and Poetics of Negritude.

Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire suggest that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A. James Arnold, Aimé Césaire, Anna Bostock, Annette Smith, Archipelago-Books, Clayton Eshleman, Dominic Thomas, French poetry, John Berger, Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems, Martinique, Negritude, Northwestern University Press, Return to My Native Land, Solar Throat Slashed, Solar Throat Slashed : The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition, The Original 1939 “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land”, translation, Wesleyan University Press

Book Review: “The fuzzy cinema of certain key events of my life” – Frankétienne’s “spiralist” novel “Ready to Burst”

Ready to Burst is a compelling, intricately structured story told in resourceful, oft-poetic language by a influential Haitian poet and novelist.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Archipelago-Books, Caribbean, Frankétienne, french, Haitian novelist, Haitian poet, Kaiama L. Glover, Ready to Burst, spiralism

Book Review: “Our Lady of the Nile” — Prefiguring Rwandan Genocide

Because of the national tension between the Tutsis and the Hutus, and its effects on everyday routines in the school, this novel cannot long remain a bemusing tale of adolescent life.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Archipelago-Books, fiction-in-translation, Hutu, Melanie Mauthner, Our Lady of the Nile, Rwanda, Scholastique Mukasonga, Tutsi

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