Gabriel García Márquez’s fiction owes its fascination to a tension between intimacy and remoteness. The narrative worlds of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) are intensely personal without being obviously autobiographical. The sculpted narrative...
Book Review: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's The Time Regulation Institute
‘But surely, reverend father,’ said
Candide, ‘there is a great deal of evil in the world.’
‘And
what if there is?’ said the dervish. ‘When His Highness sends a ship to Egypt,
do you suppose he worries whether the ship’s mice are comfortable or not?’
...
Words & Curds: Evan Munday talks to Ondjaki
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Ondjaki, seriously impressed by French Canadian Cuisine
Evan Munday, formerly of Coach House Books, has started up a quirky new interview series on Open Book Toronto, and weren't we just tickled when he approached us about talking to Ondjaki over poutine during his Granma Nineteen and...
Secession/Insecession: an Erín Moure translation and echolation of Chus Pato
Below is an excerpt from Secession/Insecession, an Erín Moure translation and 'echolation' of Galician poet Chus Pato, recently released by Toronto's BookThug. The two texts run simultaneously as facing pages throughout the length of the book, and we tried to maintain the...
Why You Should Read Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai is one of the giants of contemporary Hungarian Literature. He recently won the 2014 Best Translated Book Award, making him the first author in history to receive the honour two years in a row. Included below are a few reasons why he is not to be missed, as well as a brief introduction...
