The second issue of the new journal Music & Literature is a feast for Krasznahorkai enthusiasts and neophytes alike, with some 70 pages of previously untranslated fiction, interviews, and essays, along with critical context on the “Hungarian Master of the Apocalypse.” Alas, only George Szirtes‘ essay and an interview with translator Ottilie Mulzet are available digitally. But the complete analog package is highly recommended.
How to Treat an “Apocalyptic Hangover”
Ted Hughes’ Lost Poem
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Mississippi, 1952
Recommended Viewing: This 1952 documentary about William Faulkner and his hometown.
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Are You Sure?
“Are you sure you need to give me that summer reading list-library flyer-academic camp brochure? Are you sure that I can’t just let my kids get dumber by 1/3rd until they come back here in the fall like we all used to?” Are you sure there isn’t anything I can do? Welcome to every teacher’s nightmare, courtesy of McSweeney’s.
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“a video a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s”
Open Culture dug up the only known recordings of James Joyce reading his own work. Maybe Finnegans Wake will make a bit more sense to you when you hear its thunderwords spoken out loud.
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Salman Rushdie on George Orwell
Granta posts Salman Rushdie’s 1984 essay ‘Outside the Whale’ – a response to an essay by George Orwell about the political role of the artist: “If writers leave the business of making pictures of the world to politicians, it will be one of history’s great and most abject abdications.”
Hey, you only linked an older ‘shorter’ version of Szirtes’ essay. The new one is also available online:
http://almostisland.com//monsoon_2012/essay/foreign_laughter_foreign_music_george_szirtes.php
And do not forget that the Otilie Mulzet interview from this Krasznahorkai issue is online here:
http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-ottilie-mulzet-interview
But, of course, there is so much more to discover in that issue of Music&Literature.
Updated. Thanks.