Room for Manoeuvre: The Role of Intertext in Elfriede Jelinek's 'Die Klavierspielerin', Gunter Grass's 'Ein weites Feld', and Herta Muller's 'Niederungen' ... (MHRA Texts and Dissertations)
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Herta Müller provides a masterclass here in sparse, clear prose, and conveys the bleakness of humanity, with the occasional touch of dark, bitter magic – fully earning her Nobel Prize for literature this year.
Keeper of the Snails (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Herta Müller won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, and Serpent's Tail, maybe in celebration, have just republished The Passport . They have very kindly sent me a copy. It was first written in 1986 and first published in English in 1989. It is a short book, just 92 pages, but each page is so intensely and exquisitely written, that if it were any longer it would lose some of its power. Much...
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Some sundry links from across the Web: Resourceful idea of the week: British village transforms traditional red phone booth into local library Coming soon to a theatre near you: the book trailer for Quirk Classics’ Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters Nobel Prize-winning Herta Müller “has a psychosis,” says Romanian spy Neil Gaiman discusses audiobooks with David Sedaris and...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Former head of Securitate claims Nobel prize-winning author 'has no contact with external reality' A former member of the Romanian secret police has launched a blistering attack on the Nobel prize winning writer Herta Müller. Radu Tinu, who has admitted to spying on Müller as head of the secret police (or Securitate) in the Romanian city of Timisoara, where the Romanian-born German-speaking...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Two titles by Nobel Prize-winner Herta Müller are due to be published in English. The first is a new novel called Everything I Possess I Carry With Me , which tells the story of a German-Romanian teenager sent to a Ukrainian labor camp. The second, The Fox Was Always the Hunter , is an earlier novel first published in Germany in 1992.
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Nobel speaks, publishers listen: Curious readers clamoring for more work from this year’s Nobel laureate in literature will be able to get their hands on two more titles in the next three years. Metropolitan Books has acquired the North American rights to two novels by Herta Müller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who was awarded the Nobel Prize last month. Per Motoko Rich,...
Savvy Verse & Wit (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries! I've never participated in...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Independent publisher sees off competition in fierce auction for rights to Nobel winner Nobel laureate Herta Müller's new novel Atemschaukel, which follows the story of a German-Romanian teenager deported to a Ukrainian labour camp, will be published in the UK next year after independent press Portobello Books fought off five other publishers to acquire translation rights. Associate publisher...
Dialog International (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Good news from the New York Times: Curious readers clamoring for more work from this year’s Nobel laureate in literature will be able to get their hands on two more titles in the next three years. Metropolitan Books has acquired...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page . Here are the books that I received in the past two weeks. Don't Call Me a Crook by Bob Moore The Visibles by Sara Shepard Mr. Langshaw's Square Piano by Madeline Goold The Passport by Herta Muller Home Repair by Liz Rosenberg King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard The Harlot's Progress: Yorkshire Molly by Peter Mottley The Recipe Club by Andrea...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Nicholas Lezard's choice Once again, the Nobel committee has nonplussed the Anglophone literary world by awarding its prize for literature to someone most of us have never heard of – although that would not include the people at Serpent's Tail, who published an early work of hers, The Passport , in 1989 – three years after it appeared in German – or Granta, who published this in...
PORT (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Sarah Meadows Sarah Meadows' Time Ends Now opens tomorrow at Nationale. In her first exhibition of landscape photography, Meadows "elaborates on her fascination with nature and the elastic properties of film images, dispensing entirely with narrative and human gesture and presenting instead a concentrated study of wilderness encountered." Opening reception • 6-8pm • November 13...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
After all the 'Herta-who-?' reactions when Herta Müller took the Nobel Prize this year it's good to see, for example, Richard Woodward take a stab at Discovering Herta Müller in the Wall Street Journal . After working his way through several of her books, his reaction is decidedly mixed: I am happy to have made Ms. Müller's acquaintance without being eager to revisit her. And he concludes:...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Miami New Times interviews author Jonathan Lethem. What differentiates Chronic City for you from your other novels, besides the fact that it's the first one set in Manhattan? I put a lot of effort into making each novel different,...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Berlin really seems to be attracting the literati: newly minted French prix Goncourt-winner Marie NDiaye has lived there for the past three years, and in an interview with Johanna Schmeller in Die Welt says she likes Berlin's heterogeneity, and that: In Frankreich empfinde ich schon seit Jahren keine Frische mehr, keine Begeisterungsfähigkeit, wie es sie in Berlin noch gibt [For years now in...
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