Tim Parks

Tim Parks’s most recent books are the novel In Extremis, the critical work The Novel: A Survival Skill and Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness.

In the LRB Archive:

• My Hermit’s Life: Chateaubriand · 27 September 2018

  • Memoirs from beyond the Grave 1768-1800 by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by Alex Andriesse

• No Company, No Carpets: Tolstoy v. Tolstaya · 26 April 2018

  • Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters by Andrew Donskov, translated by John Woodsworth, Arkadi Klioutchanski and Liudmila Gladkova

• A Pair of Yellow Gloves: Stendhal’s ‘Italian Chronicles’ · 19 October 2017

  • Italian Chronicles by Stendhal, translated by Raymond MacKenzie

• Keep the ball rolling: Natalia Ginzburg · 29 June 2017

  • A Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Jenny McPhee

• Thunderstruck: Victor Hugo’s Ego · 4 May 2017

  • The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of ‘Les Misérables’ by David Bellos

• Yuk’s Last Laugh: Flaubert · 15 December 2016

  • Flaubert by Michel Winock, translated by Nicholas Elliott

• Between the Guelfs and the Ghibellines: Guelfs v. Ghibellines · 14 July 2016

  • Dante: The Story of His Life by Marco Santagata, translated by Richard Dixon

• The Passion of the Bureaucrats: Skulduggery in the Vatican · 18 February 2016

  • Avarizia: Le Carte che Svelano. Ricchezza, Scandali e Segreti della Chiesa di Francesco by Emiliano Fittipaldi
  • Merchants in the Temple: Inside Pope Francis’s Secret Battle against Corruption in the Vatican by Gianluigi Nuzzi, translated by Michael Moore

• In Some Sense True: Coetzee · 21 January 2016

  • The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz
  • J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time by David Attwell

• Quite a Show: Georges Simenon · 9 October 2014

  • A Man’s Head by Georges Simenon, translated by David Coward
  • A Crime in Holland by Georges Simenon, translated by Siân Reynolds

• Bitten by an Adder: ‘The Return of the Native’ · 17 July 2014

  • The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, edited by Simon Avery

• How does he come to be mine?: Dickens’s Children · 8 August 2013

  • Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens by Robert Gottlieb

• Joyce and Company: Joyce’s Home Life · 5 July 2012

  • James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker

• On Needing to Be Looked After: Beckett’s Letters · 1 December 2011

  • The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1941-56 edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck

• A Most Delicate Invention: ‘Money and Beauty’ · 22 September 2011

• Beware Remembrance Sunday: Graham Swift · 2 June 2011

  • Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift

• The Truth about Consuela: Death and Philip Roth · 4 November 2010

  • Nemesis by Philip Roth

• Stop It and Act: Pavese’s Road to Suicide · 11 February 2010

  • This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-50 by Cesare Pavese, translated by A.E. Murch

• After the Earthquake: Silone and Silone · 9 July 2009

  • Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao Pugliese

• Bloody Glamour: Giuseppe Mazzini · 30 April 2009

  • Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism 1830-1920 edited by C.A. Bayly and Eugenio Biagini

• Talking Corpses: ‘Gomorrah’ · 4 December 2008

  • Gomorrah: Italy’s Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano, translated by Virginia Jewiss
  • Gomorrah directed by Matteo Garrone

• Che pasticcio!: Carlo Emilio Gadda · 20 September 2007

  • That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda, translated by William Weaver

• Rebel States: Surrender by Gondola · 1 December 2005

  • The Siege of Venice by Jonathan Keates

• Stewing Waters: Garibaldi · 21 July 2005

  • Rome or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi by Daniel Pick

• On and off the High Road: Anglomania in Europe · 27 May 1999

  • Voltaire's Coconuts by Ian Buruma

• Prajapati: hugging a fraud · 19 February 1998

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