Opening the Gate of the Sun
Read Adam Shatz's LRB post on the removal of 250 Palestinians from Bab al-Shams, which takes its name from Elias Khoury's novel Gate of the Sun. 'The imaginary and the real have met in a way that is totally amazing," Khoury says. Click here to read Khoury's
Read David Ulin's review of Yannis Ritsos's Diaries of Exile in the LA Times
Its power comes from the way it blends the diaristic with the poetic
from Danielle Dutton, The Review of Contemporary Fiction — a review of Moving Parts
Magdalena Tulli. Moving Parts. Trans. Bill Johnston. Archipelago Books, 2005. 133 pp. $22.00. The second of Tulli’s works published by Archipelago, Moving Parts is an invigorating puzzle of grammar and narrative that takes the reader on a fantastic journey through the last hundred years
from Kirkus Reviews — a review of Moving Parts
Masquerading as a novel, this latest from Polish experimentalist Tulli (Dreams and Stones, 2004, etc.) is actually a brain-teasing meditation on the conventions of fiction and the strategies of grammar. In an unspecified, presumably Eastern European city, in an unspecified contemporaneous
from Janet Tucker Sarmatian Review — a review of Moving Parts
One of the most gifted of contemporary European writers, Magdalena Tulli creates an intricate and, ultimately, inhospitable fictional world in her unsettling and fine novel Moving Parts. Tulli has been hailed as the “new Bruno Schulz,” but her literary heritage