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Currently taking my time to read this scintillating and heartbreaking work, Second Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich. A huge (700 page) distillation of so many monologues from women (and some men) who reminisce, idolise/idealise and grieve about life before the fall of the Soviet Union. The voices are those of the subjects, but she weaves a fascinating cloth from it all.

#SvetlanaAlexievich #SecondHandTime #SovietUnion #USSR #Socialism #Communism #FitzcarraldoEditions

https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/second-hand-time/

A brief, but illuminating, talk by Jon Fosse on his work. It all comes back to silence.

#JonFosse #ASilentLanguage #FitzcarraldoEditions #Silence #NobelPrizeForLiterature

A copy of a slim book, A Silent Language by Jon Fosse. The book stands on a wooden mantlepiece beside a ceramic cylinder in brutalist style, by British potter Alan Wallwork.

Thanks to @LucyTranslator for bringing this to my attention
Thanks #fitzcarraldoeditions
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Für #FitzcarraldoEditions freut's mich aber. Die machen gute Sachen, auch wenn mich ihr hang zum Klischee-Litbro bei den Autoren manchmal nervt. Dafür bei Autorinnen meistens super tolle.
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Finished my re-read of ‘Death on the Nile’ in double quick time. A very familiar story to me by now but it still captivates. Moving on to another fascinating #FitzcarraldoEditions publication, Ian Penman’s ‘Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors’… #books #bookstodon #literature #nowreading

A screenshot of my Goodreads review of Agatha Christie’s ‘Death on the Nile’.

A picture of the front cover of an Agatha Christie omnibus including ‘Murder in Mesopotamia’, ‘Death on the Nile’ and ‘Appointment with Death’.

A picture of the front cover of Ian Penman’s ‘Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors’.

‘Aliss at the Fire’ in front of a fire.

Morton Feldman’s ‘Triadic Memories’ playing in the background which seems the perfect soundtrack for Fosse. #bookstodon #JonFosse #DamionSearls #FitzcarraldoEditions

Cover of Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Held in front of a fire.

On my blog today, I've written about ALISS AT THE FIRE, Jon Fosse's haunting, atmospheric novella about grief and loss.

Here's the link to my review:
https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/aliss-at-the-fire-jon-fosse-tr-damion-searls/

Translated from Norwegian by Damion Searls.

#FitzcarraldoEditions #JonFosse #AlissAtTheFire #norwegianliterature #bookreview #bookrecommendations #books #bookstadon #DamionSearls

When I started into my first really big translation project (#AnneCarson, Eros the Bittersweet), #FitzcarraldoEditions published this very long and very brilliant essay by Kate Briggs on #translation : This little Art. It helped me a lot along the way to actually understand what I’m doing. And now I see that they will publish her first novel in May 2023. Yay! #literature #novel
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/this-little-art

"Mihály, drinking coffee in the office next to the operating theatre, thinks perhaps Maleva might be on the ground floor of someone's home, beneath snow level, sitting in a chair by the fire listening to Lou Reed on tape, or maybe she's somewhere higher up, covered by the cowling of the white sheets, inventing horizons." - Nocilla Experience - Agustín Fernández Mallo #reading #quote #FitzcarraldoEditions #Translated by Thomas Bunstead

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