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Pea Soup and a Boiled Egg

Thomas Jones: Luce d’Eramo, 15 August 2019

Deviation 
by Luce d’Eramo, translated by Anne MilanoAppel.
Pushkin, 347 pp., £20, January 2019, 978 1 78227 388 2
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... she’s a spy; others that she’s getting special treatment ‘per omertà di classe’ (which Anne MilanoAppel translates as ‘because of class solidarity’, but might have been better left as ‘omertà’): ‘She’s hardly a worker like us.’ Stung by the accusations, Lucia decides to eat in the canteen ...

Clean Machine

Michael Wood: On Dino Buzzati, 17 April 2025

The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories 
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti.
NYRB, 328 pp., £17.99, January, 978 1 68137 867 1
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The Singularity 
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anne MilanoAppel.
NYRB, 127 pp., £14.99, June 2024, 978 1 68137 800 8
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The Stronghold 
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti.
NYRB, 207 pp., £16.99, May 2023, 978 1 68137 714 8
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... says, a translator can recognise a point of origin without sounding alien. This is precisely what Anne MilanoAppel does with The Singularity, and the principle is especially important in The Stronghold because its story is, in Venuti’s words, ‘unmoored from a precise time and place’ in a way that its inventor ...

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