Nepenthe

 By Shanghai Tango  

Max Norman for The New Yorker , where you can listen to this story. Damion Searls, who has translated a Nobel laureate, believes his craft isn’t about transforming or reflecting a text. It’s about conjuring one’s experience of it. Jon Fosse’s “Septology,” the seven-novel sequence about art and God that helped win its author last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, stars two men and a dog. The men are both painters, and, confusingly, both named Asle. The dog, however, is quite straightforward: he’s called Bragi. He is the all-comprehending, inky-eyed companion to the first Asle, though he belongs to the other Asle, who’s ill and can’t look after him. The novel’s lazy river of a narrative is punctuated, much in the way of real life, whenever Bragi needs to be let out to do his business, or has licked his water bowl dry, or, with a laughable but also slightly troubling frequency, takes a tumble when Asle stands up without remembering that the dog is lying on his lap. Asle’s gr...

by Brian Bilston

  𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝑴𝒊𝒕𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒅  

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚, a nossa luminar, uma mulher belíssima de corpo inteiro que tanto nos tem dado, é uma das 100 Mulheres de 2024 para a BBC , linque nos comentários. Continuamos "para inglês ver," deslumbrados com "the Beeb" mas, sim, todo o reconhecimento e toda a visibilidade são poucas. Aqui sugiro o critério mais preguiçoso para ler e oferecer livros da autora (porque são todos ótimos, e todos das Publicações Dom Quixote Lda. / Grupo Leya ) Vão pelos nomes! Esperemos que venha por aí um intitulado 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐚. Poet Writer and journalist Maria Teresa Horta is one of Portugal’s most prominent feminists and author of many award-winning books, but she is perhaps best known as co-author of the internationally acclaimed Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters), written with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa. The collec...