“The Muirs gave Kafka a distinctive voice in English for half a century: fluent, formal, enigmatic and mesmeric” – but a new, award-winning study of Kafka’s translators has almost completely erased their work from literary history, says Boyd Tonkin
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Many thanks to @roughghosts.bsky.social for drawing my attention to this, which, of course, I had to immediately get hold of as Dasa Drndic is such an extraordinary writer.
NO#3 in #20BooksofWinter: the oddly titledTono-Bungay by H G Wells, part of a trio of novels that explore class and emerging modernity in Edwardian England
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New on the blog today, I've written about some of my favourite COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS from the shelves.
Featuring books by Rumer Godden, Jean Rhys, L. P. Hartley and more! #BookSky 💙📚
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New on the blog today, I've written about ANSWER IN THE NEGATIVE by Henrietta Hamilton.
A very enjoyable vintage mystery set in the world of the National Press Archives on London’s Fleet Street. Ideal fans of Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence novels! 💙📚
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New from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social this week, a coming-of-age story Uruguayan style - Eugenia Ladra's Bait, translated by Miriam Tobin:
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New from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social this week, a coming-of-age story Uruguayan style - Eugenia Ladra's Bait, translated by Miriam Tobin:
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For half a century, Edwin and Willa Muir's translations were how the Anglophone world read Kafka. A prize-winning study of his translators barely registers their contribution.
This is a post I’ve been meaning to put together for a while, a celebration of some of my favourite novels in which the dark realities of the adult world begin to impinge on the innocence of childh…
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First published in 1959 and recently reissued as part of Penguin’s Mermaid Collection, which focuses on unjustly neglected novels from the mid-to-late 20th century, Answer in the Negative is an enj…
My parents always gave us books at Christmas and I was in my teens when my father gave me a set of four books comprising Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, and three books by H G Wells: his first no…
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Daunt Books already has a track record in dark, Spanish-language fiction having published both Maria Bastaros’ disturbing short story collection, Hungry for What, and Elisa Levi’s novel That’s All …
Daunt Books already has a track record in dark, Spanish-language fiction having published both Maria Bastaros’ disturbing short story collection, Hungry for What, and Elisa Levi’s novel That’s All …
