Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic
Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic is not a novel in the traditional sense. Rather, it is a collection of vignettes recorded by journalist Georges Vasseur in his diary during a month spent in the Pyren茅es Mountains to treat his nervous condition. Vasseur鈥檚 friends and acquaintances provide the material for his journal ...
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Why this Book Should Win – The Author and Me by BTBA Judge Michael Orthofer
Michael Orthofer runs the Complete Review 鈥 a book review site with a focus on international fiction 鈥 and its Literary Saloon weblog. The Author and Me – 脡ric Chevillard, translated from the French by Jordan Stump, France Dalkey Archive Press Obviously, two-time, back-to-back winner L谩szl贸 ...
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Why This Book Should Win – Works by BTBA Judge Scott Esposito
This post is courtesy of BTBA judge, Scott Esposito. Scott Esposito blogs at Conversational Reading and you can find his tweets here. Works – Edouard Lev茅, Translated byJan Steyn Dalkeyy Archive Press You really have to be impressed with the fact that Edouard Lev茅 has had three books translated into English, ...
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Latest Review: "The Four Corners of Palermo" by Giuseppe Di Piazza
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Patience Haggin on Giuseppe Di Piazza’s The Four Corners of Palermo, translated by Antony Shugaar and published by Other Press. Patience is a graduate of Princeton University, where she majored in comparative literature, focusing on translation. As her senior ...
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Latest Review: "Writers" by Antoine Volodine
The latest addition. to our Reviews section is a piece by P. T. Smith on Antoine Volodine’s Writers, translated by Katina Rogers and published earlier this year by Dalkey Archive Press. For those who don’t know, it was announced this week that Volodine had been awarded the Prix M茅dicis for his latest book, ...
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Writers
Antoine Volodine鈥檚 vast project (40 plus novels) of what he calls the post-exotic remains mostly untranslated, so for many of us, understanding it remains touched with mystery, whispers from those 鈥渨ho know,鈥 and guesswork. That鈥檚 not to say that, were one to read every book by Volodine and his pseudonyms, his driving ...
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Latest Review: "The Book of Emotions" by Jo茫o Almino
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is by Chad W. Post on The Book of Emotions by Jo茫o Almino, from Dalkey Archive Press. Here’s the beginning of the review: Jo茫o Almino鈥檚 The Book of Emotions is the prototypical Dalkey Archive book. Not that all of Dalkey鈥檚 books are the same, but there is a certain ...
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