End of the Year Review 2020
You don't need me to tell you that this has been a grim year, with Covid and Trump, Brexit and Putin and the world generally seeming to be going to…
You don't need me to tell you that this has been a grim year, with Covid and Trump, Brexit and Putin and the world generally seeming to be going to…
The latest addition to my website is Jan Balabán's Kudy šel anděl? (Where Was the Angel Going?). The novel is set in Ostrava, site of a huge coalfield, with many…
The latest addition to my website is Almudena Grandes' Las edades de Lulú (The Ages of Lulu). This is undoubtedly the most erotic/[pornographic novel I have ever read. Our eponymous…
The latest addition to my website is Alexander Grigorenko's Мэбэт (Mebet). This book is set among Siberian tribes with no contact with or even mention of Russia and Russians. Mebet…
The latest addition to my website is Joseph Roth's Die Geschichte der 1002. Nacht (The String of Pearls; The Tale of the 1002nd Night). This is another excellent novel by…
The latest addition to my website is Henri Calet's La Fièvre des Polders [Polder Fever]. Calet's third novel is set in Burrh, a small Belgian town near the Dutch border,…
The latest addition to my website is Wioletta Greg's Guguły (Swallowing Mercury). This is a delightful and poetical tale of a girl growing up in rural Poland, a village called…
The latest addition to my website is Ingeborg Drewitz's Gestern war heute [Yesterday Was Today]. The novel follows fifty-five years in the life of Gabriele, from her birth in 1923…
Latest on my website: Miklós Szentkuthy's Fejezet a szerelemről (Chapter on Love). Set in a small unnamed Italian town, probably towards the end of the Renaissance, this book is about…
It was very sad news when The Untranslated discontinued his blog in October 2019, though you could still follow him on Twitter. However, he has now started a new blog…