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The Essential Rilke (Trans. Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann, 1999) Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (William H. Gass, 1999) Gass is one of the best essayists to ever live and Rilke was an obsession; this is a delight. (Gass was not in time to critique Kinnell's work.)
The Children of Men (PD James, 1992) Backlisted (www.backlisted.fm/episodes/209...) despises the film in favor of the book; I consider the film a 21st century classic. The book is concerned with Englishness, finely wrought arch dialogue, and is very different from the film, and excellent
The Living Are Few, the Dead Many: Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn (Hans Henny Jahnn trans. Malcolm Green, 2012) Jahnn has an extraordinary bio; the stories (roughly-excerpted bits from massive novels) are Kafkaesque dreamlike fables kebadkenya.blogspot.com denniscooperblog.com/spotlight-on...
Catching up on recent #reading: Permutation City (Greg Egan, 1994) - incredible hard SF classic, filled with extraordinary ideas and prescient Combined with a reread of The Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge, 1994) – another classic, though as it goes on it progressively (and literally) drags
RIP Clément Oubrerie, cartoonist who I didn't know but now am anxious to; wide-ranging career
