Translated from the Catalan by Mary Ann Newman (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2015) In 1932, revered Catalan novelist Josep Maria de Sagarra put it upon himself to produce the great Barcelonan novel. Determined to produce a raw and gritty representation of … Continued
Translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2016) There’s something I don’t quite trust about light. Maybe it’s the disconnect between the seemingly arbitrary speed at which it travels and the fundamental role that speed serves … Continued
Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston (New York, NY: Archipelago Books, 2010) Only when I was living in Krakow about ten years ago and saw a production of Beckett’s “I’ll Go On” in London did I suddenly see Ireland … Continued
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2012) Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle is one of those rare books that appears at first to be failing miserably at what a novel is supposed to do, but then … Continued
Translated from the Afrikaans by J.M. Coetzee (Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2014) Being a free and independent woman for the first time in her life, the narrator of Wilma Stockenström’s The Expedition to the Baobab Tree is eager to collect … Continued