Chekhov's Mistress
Hello from Brooklyn
Firmly unboxed in my new comparatively palatial Brooklyn apartment, I am still without internet access. It seems there is a “disconnect” between the people that renovated our apartment and the phone company and I am intractably stuck in the middle. Sporadically though, I am piggy-backing on some anonymous-to-me neighbor’s wireless access. My Newsgator account says that I have hundreds upon hundreds of unread blog posts to peruse and I suppose I better getta writin’ if I ever want anyone to come back here.
Here are a couple things of interest that I did manage to see out there:
– Aaron Matz, a doctoral candidate at Yale, writes a brief piece on In Search of Lost Time at Slate. Metz informs us that we won’t see the last three volumes of the new Prendergast translation until 2018 because of copyright laws and then does a pretty good job of making us want to read them. (The Literary Saloon has some interesting input on the copyright issue as well)
Still, Metz seems to think that reading the existing volumes fully available to the U.S. reader, which are “merely revisions” of Moncrieff’s translation is unacceptable. Remember that his is only one opinion among many and plenty other’s I’ve read still regard the earlier translations as not only acceptable, but superior to the new. The choice is ultimately up to you.
On a minor note, the article is oddly accompanied by an image of a book called The Proust Project, but that book is not mentioned in the piece. (link thanks to the Proust Reading Group)
p.s. If you do buy the UK versions, avoid the paperback. My copies’ quality of permanence is lacking for such an important edition to the library.
– Scott is venturing into interviews and has a couple up with Jason Pettus.
– Oh, and lastly, some guy who has been sitting amidst the stacks a bit too long takes some shots at blogging in a less than thoughtful article at the Library Journal: “ Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts” (my emphasis). (Link thanks to Booksquare)
Hopefully things will return to normal here soon. Thanks and Good Night.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: March 03, 2005
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Song of Myself: Diary
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