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Category: Literature in Translation

150. (Cao Xueqin)

This morning, I deleted, for the first time, one of the posts on this blog, the most recent, on Marguerite … More

Marguerite Yourcencar, Proust, Realism, The Story of the Stone, Victorian Novel

143. (Marina Tsvetaeva)

And, in part, 143. (Elaine Feinstein), since it is Feinstein’s translations (written with the assistance of Angela Livingstone) from the … More

Elaine Feinstein, Marina Tsvetaeva, modernist poetry, Russian Poetry, Translation

115. (Italo Svevo)

Italo Svevo, whose talent was recognized and whose career was partially rescued by Joyce, is not much read nowadays. Joyce’s … More

Irony, Italo Svevo, James Joyce, Modernism, narration, narrative, Realism, the bourgeois, the novel

110. (Eugenio Montale)

Montale’s best translator, William Arrowsmith, writes of the collection La Bufera e altro: “these are love-poems, both personal and cosmological, without … More

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poetry, modern poetry, Poetry

81. (Joachim du Bellay)

Not a name that gets much English or American attention these (or other) days, Joachim du Bellay made his way … More

C.H. Sisson, Classical poetry, French poetry, Joachim du Bellay, Ovid, Petrarch, Poetry, Renaissance poetry, Rome, satire, the sonnet, Translation

75. (Émile Zola)

Here is the second part of the Zola post; undoubtedly shorter, as the fire of fresh reading has sputtered. But … More

French literature, Germinal, nineteenth-century French literature, Realism, the novel, Zola

74. (Émile Zola)

In the spirit of a reading journal, here’s the first of a two-part attempt to say something coherent about Zola’s … More

Auerbach, Classics, epic, French literature, George Eliot, Homer, nineteenth-century literature, Realism, the novel, Virgil, Zola

66. (Dante Alighieri)

No poem rivals Dante’s Commedia in providing so many opportunities, so many temptations, for a poet (both as the poet recollecting and … More

Dante, Divine Comedy, Inferno, Italian Poetry, Paradiso, Poetry, Purgatory, sighing

20. (Marcel Proust)

Still reading, slowly, the second volume of Recherche. I’ve leapt from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright to the new James Grieve translation without wincing. … More

Attention, Fiction, Proust, Realism, Ruskin

17. (Charles Baudelaire)

Robert Lowell’s 1961 Imitations did more for the reputation of twentieth-century poets Mandelstam and Montale than it did for the … More

Anthony Hecht, Baudelaire, Carne-Ross, Geoffrey Hill, Questions, Robert Lowell, Translation

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