Kang Ruli

Goldberg: Variations - an interview

I thought about how exciting it would be to write a novel in thirty separate sections, in which …

If collected

Plans are being finalised for the visit of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Brighton and …

Don’t even wait

This is the Kafka Blog , a blog about the life and works of my favorite author Franz Kafka. Here…

World leader prewash

Lenin takes a bath .

In einem dunklen Walde

In 1993, German artist Andreas Ammer teamed up with members of Einstürzende Neubauten and legen…

Roithamer's Cone

Modell des Wohnkegels (link broken) aus dem Roman » Korrektur « von Thomas Bernhard, as imagin…

The Spectral Jew

In the TLS , Gabriel Josipovici begins his review of Steven F. Kruger's The Spectral Jew by…

The aspirin novel

@11.1 But let's consider what is currently happening and will continue to happen in the case…

The Black Book of ... ?

" 18,000 children die every single day because of hunger and malnutrition ". We await …

Auden on the telly

Tonight's The South Bank Show on ITV1 spends an hour minus ad breaks looking at the life an…

The most real thing

From this box set .

Hollywood mantra

Every screenwriter needs a mantra, says Joe Eszterhas – an inspirational slogan pinned to the wa…

Schönpurrg

Free speech and other taboos

Free Speech, Media Silence, and Contested Narratives Freedom of speech remains one…

Book design and other crimes against literature

In preparation for the summer publication of Krishna Winston's translation of Peter Handke&#…

The distillation of life involving the union of intelligence, technique and feeling

Storing images of stone

I’ve come to the conjunction of the wheel where the horizon as the sun goes down gives birth for…

A pure reverberation

Charlotte Mandell's long-awaited translation of Maurice Blanchot's late essay collecti…

Excellent review of "What's left"

The blog Indecent Left has a long, patient survey of the "factual mistakes, lazy research …

Nostalghia

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A career in confusion

[A] confused epic of simplistic incomprehension, riddled with more factual errors and misconcept…

Castle of the unforgettable 1

In an age of the increasingly ephemeral, Kundera has long championed the permanence of art and t…

Castle of the unforgettable 2

Had I ever had a frozen limb or digit, he wanted to know. "There are many men who have been…

Dust and diamonds

Daniel Karlin isn't impressed with William C. Carter's Proust in Love : Carter's mai…

More new Kafka translations

Penguin Classics has collected in one volume new or newish translations of the stories Kafka pu…