The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    On the Art of Translating: Constance Garnett

    By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/15/2019 - 9:12pm |

    I've obsessed over Camus translations. García-Marquez and Milan Kundera spent years shepherding translations of their works. Others we broach the language and linguistic challenges to "read it in the original", trusting ourselves with the sleight of hand. [Perhaps to suffer the fate of our Great Dame in Paris, as revealed in her diaries: "Reading Proust." Years later: "Still reading Proust."] A wise ole teacher once remarked to me "who translates from a translation betrays twice." or something similar.

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    Hi there, I'm just stopping by ...

    By barefooted on Sat, 11/09/2019 - 8:44pm |

    ... to say hello.  I've missed this place and all (well, most) of you.  From the looks of things all is as it should be in the land of Dag.  Very nice.

    I won't stay and interrupt; I just wanted to let you know that you are never far from my thoughts. 

    Take care.

    Zelensky's "Servant of The People"

    By artappraiser on Sun, 09/29/2019 - 8:27pm |

    Lit Reading: Best of 21st Century

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/21/2019 - 2:59pm |

    20 Years in, how much have you read - and how well's the end of writing as we know it holding up?

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-cen...

     

     

    Best evah Halloween costume

    By artappraiser on Fri, 09/20/2019 - 7:48pm |

    Electronica

    By artappraiser on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 3:43am |

     

     

    The Provocations of Camille Paglia

    By artappraiser on Thu, 08/22/2019 - 2:43pm |

    Terrific profile of the iconoclast Camille Paglia by my friend @EmEsfahaniSmith. Worth a read. https://t.co/tgWqRIdFvD

    SimONE or Mrs. Sartre?

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/20/2019 - 4:14pm |

    How come our knowledge of Simone de Beauvoir is so limited? It's not like she wrote only 1 book.

    Cattle call? pas d'tout, Moroccan roll

    By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 10:37am |

    Kinda remind me of 60's bands before they learned performance, or late folk era - something very earnest.

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/01/fatou-seidi-ghali-the-worl...

    Petula Clark's Endless Career

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 2:41am |

    Still remember one holiday to Texas and the beach in '65, where Downtown was everywhere.
    And a summer 1967 at the pool with the somehow stirring "Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling"
    And then Petula Clark's tribute on some Bob Hope special '72 singing Penny Lane/Eleanor Rigby feeling a bit dated

    Tears in the Rain - RIP Rutger

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/24/2019 - 3:32pm |

    Realized I'd seen Hauer in 2 movies long ago, Turkish Delight & Spetters from his Dutch movie days.
    But his brilliant presence in Blade Runner remains unforgettable, including the mesmerizing final soliloquy he penned, knowing he needed something special, something more - the replicant with a soul, with vigor, with yearning.
    Somewhat like his take-no-prisoners approach to life - he lived what he felt, pushed the edges - "now you've seen some of my world", he cautioned a shaken journalist he'd just taken on a gonzo 200+ km/h motorcycle ride, "now you can interview me".

    The New York Times does its best to address the big perplexing cultural issues

    By artappraiser on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 4:26pm |

    When gay Harlem met queer Britain

    By artappraiser on Sun, 06/30/2019 - 1:04am |

    Geisha Kim Creative

    By artappraiser on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 2:46pm |

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