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fiction-in-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: “The Last Weynfeldt” — The Virtues of a Wry, Cosmopolitan Vibe

In this enjoyable novel, Martin Suter has chosen to sidestep depth in favor of colorful characters fine-honing their hopes and dreams..

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: fiction-in-translation, German fiction, Kai Maristed, Martin Suter, New Vessel Press, Steph Morris

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

Book Review: Pierre Michon and his Many Artistic “Lives”

The books are bleak in that Pierre Michon provides no reassuring, idealistic view of the creative urge. Art leads to no transcendence, no permanent uplifting sentiment. Making poems or making pictures is a rough daily business.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Archipelago-Books, contemporary French fiction, fiction-in-translation, Masters and Servants, Pierre Michon, Rimbaud the Son, Small Lives, The Eleven, The Origin of the World, Winter Mythologies and Abbots, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: “Trieste” — A Vivid and Lurid Chronicle of Horrors

As fiction, “Trieste” is almost entirely a dense tapestry of thinking, remembering, agonizing and raging.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Croatian, Daša Drndić, Ellen-Elias-Bursac, fiction-in-translation, Lebensborn, Treblinka

Book Review: A Wilted “Black Flower” From Korea

I can see why celebrated Korean writer Young-ha Kim was attracted to this real life story of about a thousand Koreans emigrating from Asia in 1904.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Black Flower, fiction-in-translation, Korean fiction, Young-ha Kim

Poetry Review: Translucent Translations — “Wheel with a Single Spoke”

Nichita Stănescu is one of the poets who broke through the socialist-realism sound barrier and propelled Romanian poetry into new spheres.

By: Ellen Elias-Bursać Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Archipelago-Books, fiction-in-translation, Nichita Stănescu, poetry in translation, Romanian, Sean Cotter, Wheel with a Single Spoke

Book Review: “The Lair” — The Intoxicating Trauma of Exile

Norman Manea’s compelling novel “The Lair” tracks the ambiguities, contradictions, and confusions of the exile’s psyche as he struggles to find footing in surroundings that are often unintelligible. It is a highly cerebral, labyrinthine book, filled with mystery, paranoia, and illegible codes.

By: Tess Lewis Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: essays, fiction-in-translation, Norman-Manea, Romanian, The Fifth Impossibility, The Lair

Book Review: Robert Walser’s Big Small Thoughts — Modest But Miraculous

In his prose and poetry, Swiss writer Robert Walser revolts from the chaos of modernity, engaging in extreme subjectivity only to confess to the heresy that is the self, choosing to revel in the simplicity of the rural life. Not for truth, but for the sake of a fleeting rapture.

By: Christopher M. Ohge Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Berlin Stories, fiction-in-translation, german, Robert-Walser, Susan-Bernofsky, Swiss, The Walk, Thirty Poems

Book Review: “Second Person Singular”—A Powerful Look at Israel’s Tangled Issues of Identity

In his novel, Sayed Kashua paints such a vivid picture of modern Jerusalem that I found myself longing to see that city again; he also portrays a whole spectrum of Arab life in Israel — from the poor families visited by the social workers to the ambitious Arab mothers and their sometimes feckless sons — with empathy and humor.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: fiction-in-translation, Hebrew, Mitch Ginsburg, Sayed Kashua, Second Person Singular

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