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Author Archives: Patrick Lennon
Anne Carson’s Nox
The Canadian poet Anne Carson’s brother Michael died in Copenhagen, Denmark in the year 2000, some 22 years after he had left Canada to avoid going to jail (what for remains unsaid, but he seems to have been involved in … Continue reading
Sebald event in Brussels: Austerlitz at the Kaaitheater
Terry Pitts of Vertigo recently highlighted a number of events being held in North Carolina, London and Berlin to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of W.G. Sebald, who was killed in a car crash ten years ago already, … Continue reading
Posted in Brussels, W.G. Sebald
Tagged Austerlitz, Ictus Ensemble, Jérôme Combier, Kaaitheater, Pierre Nouvel, Sebald
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The Brontës in Brussels
If asked, I would of course have claimed that I knew – naturally! – that the Brontë sisters had spent some time in Brussels at some point in their lives. But if truth be told, I wouldn’t have been able … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Brontë sisters, Brussels
Tagged Belgium, Brussels, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, The Professor, Villette
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Don DeLillo’s Mao II and Johan Grimonprez’s dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
It opened just over a month ago, on 15 October, and although I haven’t found time to go to it, I thought it might be worth mentioning already. I’m talking about the retrospective exhibition of work by Johan Grimonprez entitled It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Don DeLillo, Johan Grimonprez, Picture novels
Tagged dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Don DeLillo, Johan Grimonprez, Mao II, picture novels, S.M.A.K.
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Nadja in French, and Nadja in English
It is a well-known fact of course that something gets lost when you read a work in translation, but sometimes the loss can be greater than expected. Take André Breton’s Nadja, for instance. To the best of my knowledge, the … Continue reading
Posted in André Breton, Phototexts, Picture novels
Tagged André Breton, English translation, Nadja, photo-text, picture novels, Richard Howard
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Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The only curious thing about Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is that it actually was a critical and popular success when it was published in 2003, selling millions of copies and winning a number … Continue reading
Grand Hotel Europa, a tribute to literary translators
If you’re in Brussels in early December and if you’re in any way interested in literary translation, then the following event might just be the thing for you. Organized by PETRA, the European Platform for Literary Translation (or “Plateforme européenne … Continue reading
Posted in Brussels, Literary translation
Tagged Alberto Manguel, Brussels, Flagey, Literary translation, Michael Cunningham, Passaporta, PETRA
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A photo-text is a phototext is a photo text. Or is it?
One of the funny things about “novels with pictures in them” is that, as I’ve said before, no one really agrees on what to call them, be it “illustrated novels”, or “iconotexts”, or “image-texts”, or “novels with photographs”, or “photography-embedded … Continue reading
Posted in Georges Simenon, Germaine Krull, Phototexts, Picture novels, Wright Morris
Tagged Alan Trachtenberg, fiction, Gerry Badger, Krull, Peter Turner, photo-text, photography, phototext, Simenon, Wright Morris
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Museum of Letters and Manuscripts, Brussels
A new Museum of Letters and Manuscripts (MLM) opened here in Brussels in late September. Housed in a former clothes shop located in the beautiful Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert or Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen in the city centre, this is the Belgian branch … Continue reading
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Tagged Brussels, Museum of Letters and Manuscripts
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Where are the women?
I see from AbeBooks.co.uk that among their top ten most expensive sales in September there is a copy of Dessins, thèmes et variations by Henri Matisse. First published by Fabiani in Paris in 1943, this volume features an introduction by Louis … Continue reading
Posted in Carole Maso, Picture novels
Tagged Art Lover, Carole Maso, fiction, Guerrilla Girls, photography, picture novels, women artists, women writers
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