Andrei Bely: Симфонии (Symphonies)
The latest addition to my website is Andrei Bely's Симфонии (Symphonies). These are four works - prose poems is the not entirely satisfactory term I would use - written in…
The latest addition to my website is Andrei Bely's Симфонии (Symphonies). These are four works - prose poems is the not entirely satisfactory term I would use - written in…
The latest addition to my website is Adrienne Yabouza's Co-épouses et co-veuves, (Co-wives, Co-widows), the first adult novel from the Central African Republic to be published in English. It tells…
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Twenty-Twenty. This is a diary, influenced by Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage (Anniversaries), which he reads and comments on, in the early part…
The latest addition to my website is Willem Frederik Hermans' Hermans: Herinneringen van een engelbewaarder (A Guardian Angel Recalls). Our hero is Bert Alberegt, a Dutch state prosecutor. In a…
The latest addition to my website is Shukri Mabkhout's الطلياني (The Italian. This is a rare example of a Tunisian novel written in Arabic translated into English. It tells the…
The latest addition to my website is Susan Daitch's Siege of Comedians. This is a superb and highly complex novel with three main characters and lots of secondary ones. We…
The latest addition to my website is Akram Musallam's اسيرة العقرب الذي يتصبب عرقا (The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion). Our unnamed narrator, clearly based on the author, had a…
The latest addition to my website is Un Su Kim's 벗 캐비닛 (The Cabinet). This is a wildly inventive novel, telling of Deok-geun Kong, a South Korean office worker, who…
The latest addition to my website is Marino Magliani's Soggiorno a Zeewijk (A Window to Zeewijk). This is a novel in the tradition of writers such as W G Sebald…
The latest addition to my website is Maria Judite de Carvalho's Os Armários Vazios (Empty Wardrobes). The novel tells the story of Dora Rosário, who marries Duarte young and has…