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Javier Marías: Your Face Tomorrow, Volume III: Poison, Shadow and Farewell

July 8, 2016August 27, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Javier Marías’s Your Face Tomorrow, Volume III: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Javier Marías Tags 2000s, 2007, New Directions, Spanish 5 Comments

César Aira: The Seamstress and the Wind

July 5, 2016June 28, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews César Aira’s The Seamstress and the Wind, translated from the Spanish by Rosalie Knecht. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, César Aira Tags 1990s, 1994, New Directions, Spanish 3 Comments

Joseph Roth: The Leviathan

July 5, 2016June 12, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Joseph Roth’s The Leviathan, translated from the Germany by Michael Hofmann. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Joseph Roth Tags 1930s, 1938, German, New Directions 7 Comments

Javier Marías: Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico

June 29, 2016March 14, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Javier Marías’s Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Javier Marías Tags 1990s, 1996, New Directions, Spanish 11 Comments

Dezsö Kosztolányi: Kornél Esti

June 27, 2016February 22, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Dezsö Kosztolányi’s 1933 book, Kornél Esti, translated from the Hungarian by Bernard Adams. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Dezsö Kosztolányi Tags 1930, 1933, Hungarian, New Directions 4 Comments

Gert Hofmann: Lichtenberg & the Little Flower Girl

June 27, 2016February 15, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Gert Hofmann’s Lichtenberg & the Little Flower Girl, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Gert Hofmann Tags 1990s, 1994, German, New Directions 9 Comments

Vivant Denon: No Tomorrow

June 27, 2016January 14, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Vivant Denon’s 1777 novella, No Tomorrow. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Vivant Denon Tags 1700s, 1777, French, New Directions, NYRB Classics 21 Comments

Horacio Castellanos Moya: Senselessness

June 27, 2016December 3, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Horacio Castellanos Moya Tags 2000s, 2004, New Directions, Spanish 6 Comments

César Aira: The Literary Conference

May 27, 2017November 11, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews César Aira’s The Literary Conference, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, César Aira Tags 2000s, 2006, New Directions, Spanish 20 Comments

Jenny Erpenbeck: Visitation

June 19, 2016September 8, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Jenny Erpenbeck’s Visitation, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Jenny Erpenbeck Tags 2000s, 2008, German, New Directions 9 Comments
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