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27 February 2022

Amélie Nothomb's misrepresentations

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“Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.” The quote was attributed to Einstein. At least that's how The Calculus wi...
19 February 2022

Upcoming translations from the Philippines

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  English translation of novels originally written in Philippine languages is a recent phenomenon. In the 20th century, only 6 novels from t...
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15 February 2022

Schrödinger's cat was a zombie

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  When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West (Pushkin Press, 2020)    Ama...
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10 February 2022

The giant lie in The Buried Giant

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  I was thinking how The Buried Giant was an elegant variation on Kazuo Ishiguro's (KI's) themes: memory, forgetting, historical wr...
03 February 2022

Notes on The Buried Giant

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  Why is it when I read Kazuo Ishiguro I could laser-focus on what he's saying in the text before me? Was it a product of leisurely paci...
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