MANAS and MOUNTAINS OCEANS GIANTS to be published in spring 2020
After approaching me several months ago, the independent UK publisher Galileo (www.galileopublishing.co.uk )has acquired worldwide English language rights from S…
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CATALOGUE OF TRANSLATIONS – UPDATED
Since this website went live in April 2018, we have posted the first complete translations into English of five…
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What happens then when Homer starts up, when Dante goes through Hell, when Don Quixote sets off on his horse…
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“We alternate something, we make it different, absurd, upside down, and look, it is still something. We think a thought…
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The poet Arno Holz was born 156 years ago today, on 26 April 1863 in Rastenburg, East Prussia. We…
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The first version of Arno Holz’s poem cycle ‘Phantasus’, published in 1898-99, contains 101 short poems, each presenting a scene…
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In his funeral oration for the poet Arno Holz (1863-1929), Doeblin reveals his admiration for a leading figure…
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