tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post113432921862733440..comments2024-03-18T16:55:31.971+00:00Comments on This Space: Without endStephen Mitchelmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1134398105184875642005-12-12T14:35:00.000+00:002005-12-12T14:35:00.000+00:00i tend to despise critical companions, tour guider...i tend to despise critical companions, tour guiders of the lamest kind, decoding much too harshly ('...playing piano with fists rather than fingers', trying to translate rosenzweig).<BR/><BR/>unfortunately, this one:<BR/>http://www.degruyter.com/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110182742-1&l=E<BR/>is postponed to august 06...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1134337735536060802005-12-11T21:48:00.000+00:002005-12-11T21:48:00.000+00:00Thanks Omer. I loved reading the Kafka biography; ...Thanks Omer. <BR/><BR/>I loved reading the Kafka biography; it's gripping. Though maybe you have to be interested in the writer and writing to find it so. <BR/><BR/>On Sebald, I think James Wood's essay in The Broken Estate is good. I've read the Critical Companion but can't remember much about it!Stephen Mitchelmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1134337166409538642005-12-11T21:39:00.000+00:002005-12-11T21:39:00.000+00:00as far as i know, the first volume out of three (o...as far as i know, the first volume out of three (or 4? don't know) of jahnns' titanic 'fluss ohne ufer' was translated to english sometime in the early sixties by the name 'the ship' (if i remember correctly the german title of the first chapter is 'das holzschiff')<BR/><BR/>all in all, ya regard stach as a decent biographer? those are surely hard to find.<BR/><BR/>and another question, is there any piece on sebald you found engaging in particular? i thought 'the anatomist of melancholy' was a good read. most of the other stuff i found were rather superficial (yours excluded in this, honestly)<BR/><BR/>g'nightAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com