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Archive for May, 2008
Ferenc Karinthy: Metropole
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Posted in dystopian, language, existence, Karinthy, Ferenc, existential, loneliness, Telegram Books, Hungary
12 responses so far. Keep them coming. »
At the beginning of Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveler there is a passage on the various types of books we meet in our lives, such as ... Read more..
Vladimir Nabokov: Mary
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Posted in Penguin, memory, exile, absence, Russia, Nabokov, Vladimir, love
4 responses so far. Keep them coming. »
Although it was his first novel, Vladimir Nabokov's Mary (1926) was not translated until 1970, and one can well imagine the author peering over translator Michael Glenny's shoulder as he ... Read more..The Best Of The Booker - Shortlist
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Posted in Prizes & Awards
3 responses so far. Keep them coming. »
Following on from the 25th Anniversary 'Booker Of Bookers' in 1993, comes the 40th Anniversary 'Best Of The Booker', in which a panel of judges have saved the public the ... Read more..Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2008 - Winner
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Posted in Prizes & Awards
2 responses so far. Keep them coming. »
Whittled down from over 100 titles to a longlist of 17 announced in January, the titles were again reduced in March to a final 6. And now, in a ceremony ... Read more..