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.
Other SpikeMagazine.com posts of interest:
- Every month is like February
- Modesty On a lighter note than usual, I just wa…
- Repetition again, part 2
- The most important writer in the world
- Osip Mandelstam
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