Translation Tuesdays: The Absolute Gravedigger, by Vítěslav Nezval @ NYJB
Violent, erotic, dreamlike, and weird
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The Familiar, Volume 4: Hades, by Mark Z. Danielewski @ NYJB
“The Familiar” series weaves a series of interrelated narratives together. It combines different genres and styles, ranging from hard-boiled Los Angeles noir to stream-of-consciousness psychological introspection. It is referential and self-referential with typographic experimentation and excesses. At times the traditional arrangement of paragraphs shatter, explode, or blur. In other instances the words form pictures, the boundaries between word and image disappearing altogether.
Commotion of the Birds: New Poems by John Ashbery
In John Ashbery’s final book of poetry “Images coagulate and dissolve in a kaleidoscope of language.”
Translation Tuesdays: Vampire in Love, by Enrique Vila-Matas
“Vampire in Love” represents another innovative voice in Spanish language literature. With this collection, Vila-Matas can join the likes of Roberto Bolaño, Severo Sarduy, and Carlos Fuentes.
Translation Tuesdays: Story of Love in Solitude, by Roger Lewinter
“[Lewinter’s] unique literary voice . . . is that of an obsessive, a philosopher, and a miniaturist.”
Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney @ NYJB
“Buck Studies” is “a potent cocktail of political anger and radical formal experimentation.”
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 1887–2058, by Emma Lavigne @NYJB
“The past and the future are her playground, and she relays an open invitation to all who seek a daring museum experience.”
Translation Tuesdays: The Fox Was Ever the Hunter, by Herta Muller @NYJB
Ms. Müller won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. The Swedish Academy awarded it because her writing is imbued “with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.” Despite the spies, surveillance, and tyranny, the Romania she presents appears like a fairy tale.
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939–1972, by A. David Moody @ NYJB
“Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939–1972,” by A. David Moody chronicles Pound’s life from his Italian residency prior to the outbreak of World War II to his death.
Translation Tuesdays: One Hundred Twenty-One Days by Michele Audin
Michèle Audin’s debut novel “One Hundred Twenty-One Days” is a story about mathematics and love.