Minae Mizumura: 母の遺産 (Inheritance of Mother)
The latest addition to my website is Minae Mizumura's 母の遺産 (Inheritance of Mother). This is a feminist novel, about the changing role of women in Japan. We follow three generations…
The latest addition to my website is Minae Mizumura's 母の遺産 (Inheritance of Mother). This is a feminist novel, about the changing role of women in Japan. We follow three generations…
The latest addition to my website is Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a semi-autobiographical novel with the two main characters, brother and sister Roger and Molly Fawcett, being based on…
Here is another interesting article on that perennial issue of (lack of) women in translation. I am as guilty as the next man on this. I note that, of the…
The latest addition to my website is Julien Gracq's Un balcon en forêt (A Balcony in the Forest). This novel was based on Gracq's own experiences in World War II…
The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas' Mac y su contratiempo [Mac and His Problem]. Mac is a bankrupt builder who plans to rewrite the (very poor) novel,…
The latest addition to my website is Joyce Cary's To Be a Pilgrim. This is the second in the trilogy, which started with Herself Surprised. This one tells the story…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Las conversaciones (Conversations). This is another brilliant long story/short novel from Aira, about his favourite subject of the boundaries between fiction…
The latest addition to my website is Robert Walser's Geschwister Tanner (The Tanners). This was Walser's first novel and a strange one it is, clearly based on himself and his…
I an surprised that the English-language press has not picked up on the death of German writer Peter Härtling yesterday (10 July 2017), aged 84. He will be remembered for…
Steven Moore is the author of two essential works on the history of the novel: The Novel: An Alternative History , the first one covering the beginnings to 1600 and…