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Microscripts Extravaganza at TQC
This week we offer two pieces on Robert Walser’s microscopic late writings, otherwise know as The Microscripts, publishing this month from New Directions.
They are George Fragopoulos’s review/essay of The ‘Scripts, and George’s interview with their translator, Susan Bernofsky, who, at this point, has done the lion’s share of the Walser translation into English.
And when you’re done with those, have a look at our other Walser coverage: our review of The Tanners, our review of The Assistant. I’ll also recommend my essay on Enrique Vila-Matas, who is a big fan of Walser’s (to the point of incorporating Walser into his work), and whose literature has a number of affinities with Walser’s.
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- W.G. Sebald’s A Place in the Country to be Published . . . Eventually I guess me and Terry from the blog Vertigo have some odd mind-meld currently working, since we both discovered on Sunday that Random House will...
- Josipovici and Translation at TQC Two new reviews this week at The Quarterly Conversation. First is a review of Gabriel Josipovici’s new book of two short novels: I read Two...
- Group Translations I've heard of translation duos such as the famous Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, but this is the first I've heard of a translation collective....
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