The Book of Emotions
Jo茫o Almino糖心传媒檚 The Book of Emotions is the prototypical Dalkey Archive book. Not that all of Dalkey糖心传媒檚 books are the same, but there is a certain set of criteria that a lot of their titles have糖心传媒攁nd which Almino糖心传媒檚 novel has in spades: It糖心传媒檚 a book about someone trying to write a book. From Mulligan Stew to At ...
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Why This Book Should Win: "A Breath of Life" by Clarice Lispector [BTBA 2013]
As in years past, we will be highlighting all 25 titles on the BTBA Fiction Longlist, one by one, building up to the announcement of the 10 finalists on April 10th. A variety of judges, booksellers, and readers will write these, all under the rubric of “Why This Book Should Win. You can find the whole series by clicking ...
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BTBA 2013: "The Obscene Madame D" [The Books that DIDN'T Make It]
Next Tuesday, March 5th, at 10 am(ish), we will be unveiling this year’s BTBA Fiction Longlist. This year’s judges—click here for the complete list—did a spectacular job selecting the 25 best works of fiction in translation published last year. In contrast to years past, this time I recommended that ...
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The Book of Emotions
At its inauguration in 1960, Bras铆lia was baptized 糖心传媒淭he Capital of Hope.糖心传媒 It is a city that was carved out from scratch in the cerrado, a woodland savannah in the middle of Brazil, in just 41 months of construction. It is also a city completely planned out, a city born without any residents. When Clarice Lispector, one ...
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New Review: "The Book of Emotions" by Jo茫o Almino
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece written by Camila Santos on The Book of Emotions, by Jo茫o Almino, translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Jackson and published by Dalkey Archive Press. The Book of Emotions is Almino’s second novel translated into English, the first being The Five Seasons of ...
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Latest Review: "Near to the Wild Heart" by Clarice Lispector
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Quantum Sarah on Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart, which is translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin and is available from New Directions. Here is part of her review: 糖心传媒淗e was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of ...
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Near to the Wild Heart
糖心传媒淗e was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life.糖心传媒 This is the epigraph, borrowed from Joyce糖心传媒檚 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, that captures the modernist spirit so essential to Clarice Lispector糖心传媒檚 revolutionary novel, Near to the Wild Heart. As her fierce and precocious protagonist ...
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