thanks for the tip on the cioran art, julio, picked up the LRB this afternoon :)
I really should renew my subscription
― cozen, Monday, 24 May 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
noticed there's a michael wood article on wire and tremeh in there too
― cozen, Monday, 24 May 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Three stories into the Krudy, and it's glorious stuff, his own pick of his best short writing.
― Soukesian, Monday, 24 May 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Ws reading Sinbad today: it is a marvel.
No probs Cozen - thoroughly enjoyed my one year 'gift' subscription (if I wasn't on it I'd probably get hold of 1 in 3 issues). The main thing is the archive: currently reading an article on Milosz from Dec '81.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 May 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
are these sold in a bundle somewhere?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
saw them 3 for 2 in blackwells today if that helps
― thomp, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
What about Eastern Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, the former Balkans, the Baltics, Ukraine, and further toward Asia even...anyone explored that? It just struck me there is almost nothing I can think of whereas there is lots of Poles, Czechs, Hunagarians, the odd Romanian -- *big gap* --- Russians.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 2 October 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Good point--Dalkey Archivr has some fascinating-looking stuff from these countries. I need to investigate further.
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Monday, 4 October 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Stuff from the big pile of Harvills in our flat which I enjoyed:
Gustav Herling (Poland): The Island Milos Tsernianski (Serbia): MigrationsSlobodan Selenic (Serbia, born Croatia): Premeditated Murder (btw I was much less keen on his "Father and Forefathers)
Stuff from the big pile of Harvills which remain to be read but which I am assured are very fine:
Ivo Andric (Bosnia): Bosnian ChronicleJaan Kross (Estonia): The Czar's Madman
If you're including Albania you can count all of those Kadare novels (I think my favourite is "The Pyramid" actually, but I'm a sucker for a project management novel).
If you're being otherwise generous in definition, there's Aleksandar Hemon, a Bosnian (I think) now based in Chicago and writing brilliantly in English.
I have no idea whether all or any of the above count as "classics" obv.
― Tim, Monday, 4 October 2010 10:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Great. Ivo Andric is all I've heard of (he won the Nobel).
A project management novel sounds irresistible. Off I go to meet my milestones!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I just read "Bosnian Chronicle", inspired by this thread. It's tremendous, although I found it very slow going. It's about Bosnia, but you only really see Bosnia around the edges of the main plot, which centres on the French (and to an extent Austrian) consulate in Travnik during the Napoleonic wars.
It doesn't sound very nice there, then.
― Tim, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
So writing about what he knows then? Andric was an ambassador.
I've read so much about the moment of decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire that I haven't got round to actually reading that much about its heyday.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
May be of interest.
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/12441/100-books-eastern-europe-central-asia
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
It is, a couple of things I'll follow -up on. Thanks
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 23:57 (three years ago) link