Tony
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Championing the wonders of translated fiction, one review at a time. Slightly older and more haggard than the photos suggest. Bitter at most things, really.
Melbourne
Joined August 2010
For everything to do with my latest translation, my #GermanLitMonth serialisation of Eduard Graf von Keyserling's 'On Southern Slopes' ('Am Südhang'), just follow the link :) https://t.co/xbLYPHkQGZ
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A bit of history and biology in today's post as we take a look at Iida Turpeinen’s 'Beasts of the Sea' (translated by David Hackston, courtesy of @maclehosepress), the story of a particular (extinct) creature and our role in its disappearance... https://t.co/gFdNUzr3Pp
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I quite enjoy novels that provide insights into professions or areas that are outside my frame of reference, and today’s choice certainly fits into that category, taking me far beyond my usua…
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A week or two of big numbers on the blog, driven by a Nobel-Prize winner, three screen adaptations and (sadly) a premature death...
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László Krasznahorkai: Architect of the Apocalypse
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[A translated/edited/abbreviatied version of this text appears in taz] This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature goes to László Krasznahorkai, a writer whose work carries forward the torch lit by…
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New reviews: the trio of @honfordstar's "Lovecraft Reanimated"-series: - Lee Suhyeon's 'Alien Gods' https://t.co/YBbXxlaVix - Choi JaeHoon's 'The Call of the Friend' https://t.co/EVe0SRBfoi - Yi Seoyoung's 'Come Down to a Lower Place'
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More J-Lit for #TranslationThurs with a look at Aoko Matsuda's collection of 52(!) stories, 'The Woman Dies' (translated by Polly Barton, courtesy of @EuropaEditions @EuropaEdUK): https://t.co/VMkxxjhVwf
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While Europa Editions’ main focus is on, well, European fiction, the past few years have seen them publish literature from further afield, and one of their new favourite countries appears to …
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An intriguing journey in search of information about a very special man, in Trieste and... Wimbledon? My look at Daniele Del Giuidice's 'A Fictional Enquiry' (translated by Anne Milano Appel, courtesy of @NewVesselPress): https://t.co/yDKYCVBboZ
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While I tend to move in rather familiar reading circles, it’s nice to try something a little different once in a while, and that was certainly the case with my latest read, one sent my way by…
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Winding Up the Week #442
https://t.co/r570NPoiBx via @GaiaBird1 #BookTwitter #AmReading #Books #BookReview #BookshopDay #GermanLitMonth #TeamBlogger @_TeamBlogger @tony_malone @BeautyAndTheCat
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This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce German Literature Month 2025, keep up with a variety of literary anniver…
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In the mail: much-missed Kurodahan Press published several Japanese works inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's ‘Cthulhu Mythos’ (scroll: https://t.co/UO49M3UA0g) and now @honfordstar gives us some South Korean takes in a 'Lovecraft Reanimated'-trio
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The Lovecraft Reanimated project features leading Korean speculative fiction writers reimagining the works of horror master H.P. Lovecraft. While honoring his eerie, grotesque imagery and the blurred...
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To be honest, I think this describes Murnane more ;)
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if you speak german, take three minutes to watch this clip. not only will you learn that lászló krasznahorkai speaks german very well, but also that his estate is held in the austrian national library, bc he does not entrust a single page to orban. https://t.co/OHISba22sQ
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Congrats to László Krasznahorkai, the great poet of entropy. I wrote about his work a while back:
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September 18, 2019 – A Krasznahorkai novel may be an abyss, but the depths are brimming.
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Congratulations to 2025 Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai and also his translators into English, @caringerel, @george_szirtes, and @JohnBatki and his US publisher @NewDirections! https://t.co/BdfxKj2EMS
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The prize committee said the Hungarian writer’s work “reaffirms the power of art.”
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Predictably, my blog stats are up today, with virtually all of the top ten posts reviews by, well, you know ;) https://t.co/hpTdwGsgGd
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Nobel-laureate Krasznahorkai's archive (his "Vorlass") is at the Austrian National Library — "84 Archivboxen, 12 Kisten" https://t.co/cAvw9Gwy0z Including some of his diaries, apparently:
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Jon Fosse, Han Kang now Krasznahorkai. What a trio of winners.
BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
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Am pleased the Nobel Committee heeded my advice. :-) But seriously this is a brilliant decision: László Krasznahorkai is a stunning writer: terrifying, bizarre, often very funny. For me, Sátántangó, War & War, and Melancholy of Resistance are his finest achievements.
Krasznahorkai’s Sátántangó feels like a hallucination, a delirious conspiracy against sanity, a sinister vision of cosmic chaos. A muddy, miserable, hilarious monster. Give László the Nobel tomorrow!
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For once, it appears the bookies were right...
BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
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Krasznahorkai @NobelPrize-win coverage at the Literary Saloon updated https://t.co/TPgkJaTsaV I think that should do it for today .....
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László Krasznahorkai announces a new book A magyar nemzet biztonsága – Vadászat pillangóra (The Security of the Hungarian Nation – Butterfly Hunting ) https://t.co/GsoJhv8Boy
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Congratulations, @caringerel : brilliant work here.
This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in literature László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess.
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