Reviews

  In his essay “Edgar Jené and the Dream About the Dream,” the Bukovina-born poet Paul Celan addresses the defilement of language and the spirit through “evil and injustice in the world”; and he proposes a corrective: not in the unlikely

  Excerpts from the review by George Kalamaras Rain Taxi, Vol. 12, No. 1 - Spring 2007   One of the most important English translations of international poetry in recent years.

  Excerpts from Christopher Bakken’s review of Sachtouris, as published in Pleiades:   1. …the typical Sachtouris poem occurs in a place we don’t recognize as Greece, that we’re not sure we recognize as being real at all, except that like our world it

  Miltos Sachtouris (1919-2005) was one of the twentieth century’s foremost poets in Greece, but, unlike other Greek poets such as George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, he has been slow to receive world recognition. Karen Emmerich’s new translation into English of

  THIS little book, originally published in Zurich in 1936, six years before Musil’s death, is full of what the author called “the passionate energy of the idea.” It is a collection of small stories and observations, like Musil’s effort to

  One of my prized books is a battered, used copy of the first volume of Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities. On the cover, the Wall Street Journal calls it one of the 20th century’s three greatest novels (the other two,

  [review for the 1988 Eradonos edition of Posthumous Papers of a Living Author]   SINCE so little of Robert Musil’s work is available in English, this collection’s appearance is a major literary event. A congeries of light sketches, composed for Austrian and German

  Here’s a working rule of thumb when pondering criticism of Musil: the longer the work, the more divided the opinions. There isn’t much divergence of judgment about Törless or the two plays, for instance, and the exquisite stories in Vereinigungen and Drei Frauen are largely respected

  From Focus on German Studies, University of Cincinnati review by Anna E. Baker   Peter Wortsman’s new translation of Robert Musil’s Posthumous Papers of a Living Author provides an excellent and imminently accessible translation of Musil’s concise and ironic prose. AlthoughPosthumous Papers first appeared in print

  A graceful, moving story of cultures in collision — and concord — in the far north. Chukchi writer Rytkheu, a native of the Chukotka region of far northeastern Siberia, is well known in Europe but new to American audiences. Influenced by