Blogs about: Diego Marani

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Diego Marani, Europanto, Blinkenlights, and Hacker Neologisms

Samir Chopra wrote 1 week ago: In reviewing Diego Marani‘s Las Adventures Des Inspector Cabillot, Matthew Reynolds notes his … more →

Tags: History of Science, Language #2, Military History, technology, auxiliary languages, europanto, hackers, Humor, Inside jokes

Lost in translation2 comments

Gerry wrote 3 weeks ago: If there’s one thing I really regret, it’s never having achieved fluency in a language o … more →

Tags: Literature, Books, Naples, New Finnish Grammar, Atocha Station, language, ben lerner

The Last of the Vostyachs, by Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry6 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 3 weeks ago: Diego Marani is an Italian author and Eurocrat who writes novels in his spare time.     Following on … more →

Tags: Reviews, italian literature, Translations, Male authors, 21st Century, Marani Diego, Text Publishing, Read in 2013, Shadow Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013

Review: The Last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani

thoughtsatintervals wrote 1 month ago: Some authors seem to have a few principal obsessions, which they repeatedly examine in their novels. … more →

Tags: Literature, language, Culture, Review, Fiction, Books 2, New Finnish Grammar, identity, translation

The last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani9 comments

winstonsdad wrote 1 month ago: The last of the Vostyachs by Diego Marani Italian fiction Original title – L’ultimo dei … more →

Tags: Translations, Italy, #translationthurs, shadow iffp 2013, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013, Italy, 2013, Judith Landry

The Last of the Vostyachs6 comments

1streading wrote 1 month ago: As I recently confessed, I wasn’t quite as impressed by Diego Marani’s New Finnish Grammar as many o … more →

Tags: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013, last of the vostyachs

New Finnish Motivation1 comment

thoughtsatintervals wrote 3 months ago: For a while now I’ve been preoccupied by thoughts of language, the preservation of language, a … more →

Tags: Literature, language, New Finnish Grammar, The Kalevala, identity, Motivation, Writing #2

Review of 'New Finnish Grammar' by Diego Marani3 comments

cphowe wrote 5 months ago: ‘New Finnish Grammar’ by Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry Published by The Text Publishing … more →

Tags: Literary Fiction, New Finnish Grammar

Reviews: David Byrne and Diego Marani

davidsornig wrote 5 months ago: I’ve reviewed two very different books this month for The Melbourne Review. How Music Works ce … more →

Tags: David Byrne, How music works, New Finnish Grammar, Reviews

Diego Marani's New Finnish Grammar and Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses4 comments

plumeofwords wrote 5 months ago: To put simply a difference between authors and translators, authors have to conceive both of ideas a … more →

Tags: Reading, translation, New Finnish Grammar, Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses, Judith Landry, Anne Born, Narrative voice, flattening effect

Book Giveaway: New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani15 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 6 months ago: Remember when as a member of the Shadow International Foreign Fiction Prize I reviewed New Finnish G … more →

Tags: book giveaway, Marani Diego, New Finnish Grammar

The Bare Truth

Narrator wrote 6 months ago: “A woman in love is a physical presence, a body which, of all those on earth, seeks out and de … more →

Tags: New Finnish Grammar

Sharing

Narrator wrote 8 months ago: There on the silent street the biting cold brought me to my senses: I felt unreasonably bothered, I … more →

Tags: photos, Pages almost turn themselves, New Finnish Grammar

Travelling the world through books: Finland

Paul Sutton Reeves wrote 9 months ago: Fiction has the power to transport us to places to which we’ve never been.  Some of these dest … more →

Tags: Tove Jansson, Finland, Kazuo Ishiguro, Finnish literature, Bill Drummond, Finno-Ugric, roy jacobsen

To read widely or read deeply?1 comment

Paul Sutton Reeves wrote 10 months ago: Widely or deeply, then? That, over the last couple of days, seems to have been the question for disc … more →

Tags: haruki murakami, Anthony Burgess, Ferenc Karinthy, Stephen Sherrill, magnus mills, John Kennedy Toole, gabriel zaid

Curious and Curiouser... The Bookshop Band's debut at Blackwell's1 comment

Jeremiad wrote 10 months ago: Curious and curiouser Things aren’t what they seem… Last night on the 3rd July, Blackwel … more →

Tags: Bookshop news and events, the bookshop, Beauty of Books, Alice's Day, New Finnish Grammar, Blackwells, The Bookshop Band, The Story Museum, Alice in Wonderland

Mixing It Up Reading Challenge - The End!1 comment

bluebookbelle wrote 10 months ago: I have finally completed my June challenge, despite thinking i wouldn’t be able to finish in t … more →

Tags: Books and their issues, Challenges, Reading, joanne harris, Literature, Z for Zachariah, robert c o'brien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mixing It Up Reading Challenge

Mixing It Up Reading Challenge Update#5

bluebookbelle wrote 10 months ago: Here is an update of my latest Challenge, with just under 2 days left to go! My tasks for June are a … more →

Tags: Books and their issues, Challenges, Reading, joanne harris, Literature, Z for Zachariah, robert c o'brien, Mixing It Up Reading Challenge, Peaches for Monsieur le Cure

Mixing It Up Reading Challenge Update#4

bluebookbelle wrote 10 months ago: Here is an update of my latest Challenge, 25 days in! My tasks for June are as follows: Read a brand … more →

Tags: Books and their issues, Challenges, Reading, joanne harris, Literature, Z for Zachariah, robert c o'brien, Mixing It Up Reading Challenge, Peaches for Monsieur le Cure


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