Recurring Bafflement

A couple of essays on translation: Paul Reitter at The Hedgehog Review, on translating Kafka On the difficulty of translating subtleties of grammar that don’t have direct equivalents in English, and the different priorities shown in different versions of…

(Continued from Part 1; read the linked post first!)

This will take explaining.

Ever read an introduction and decide the book itself would be superfluous?

So, the world.

I don’t post often.

The army recruits Timid Professor Ermanno Ismani for a project.

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I have short, not especially well thought out notes on some of the books I read over the past year sitting on my computer.