Frazzle
Michael Wood: Chinese Whispers, 8 August 2013
Multiples
edited by Adam Thirlwell.
Portobello, 380 pp., £20, August 2013,978 1 84627 537 1 Show More
edited by Adam Thirlwell.
Portobello, 380 pp., £20, August 2013,
“... Vila-Matas, in Colm Tóibín’s translation, describes Kafka as ‘this non-breeder’. In Daniel Kehlmann’s German this is ‘nachwuchsloser Mann’, a man without descendants, literally without aftergrowth. In Julie Orringer’s English, based on Peter Esterházy’s Hungarian, Kafka becomes a ‘barren man’, which in Laurent Binet’s French ... ”