From One Catastrophe to Another The new, burgeo…
From One Catastrophe to Another
The new, burgeoning In Writing website has added a funny and moving interview with Thomas Bernhard translated by Anja Zeidler. A typical instance of Bernhard?s attitude comes when he is asked if he believes in life after death: ?No. Thank God" he says. "Life is wonderful. But the best thought is that when it ends, it's forever.?
Today I discovered a site called Dante and Others. It offers free downloads of translations of famous works, including a prose version of the entire Divine Comedy, as well as Ovid, Lorca, Rilke, Mandelstam, Petrarch, and Baudelaire, among others.
Finally, the BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves site has a new set of questions for this month?s competition. In a blog last month, I complained that I hadn?t won before. Last week, however, a catalogue/book called ?German Art for Russian Imperial Palaces 1800-1850? arrived in the post. It was the prize for winning. Smug City! This month?s prize includes books by Francis Fukuyama, Linda Grant and the embarrassing Maya Angelou. I pass.
