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Reading Maeterlinck’s The Blind, we become aware of a continuous, brilliant process of transposition and streamlining into Waiting for Godot. Here’s an instance from Part One of the previous post: THIRD BLIND MAN. Is the sun still shining?[*74] SIXTH BLIND MAN.I think not: it seems very late. SECOND BLIND MAN.What time is it? THE OTHERS.I Read more
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After an entire day spent walking to the location of this photograph so as to plan the shot, overnight, a ferocious sandstorm obliterated the dune & drastically altered the landscape. Befuddled, I returned. What you see is the result. Read more
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In my translator’s preface to Saneatsu Mushanokoji’s The Innocent (Omedetaki Hito of 1911), I noted a curious feature of the novella: Mushanokoji seems to anticipate aspects of very modern writers such as Samuel Beckett and Italo Calvino in particular. Mushanokoji’sThe Innocent intriguingly prefigures elements of Beckett’s minimalism and Calvino’s conceptual play, bridging literary traditions in Read more
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Welcome to the final dramatic chapter of Baron Montez of Panama and Paris. We witness the culmination of Louise and Harry’s romance and the end of Fernando Montez. Readers have been eagerly anticipating the final revenge against Montez, for every time they pick up the yellow-back novel to read, the cover screams of the lustful, Read more
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