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Three different editions of Georges Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-Morte

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Patrick Lennon

These three editions of Georges Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-Morte are in fact three very different books. The first edition, pictured left and dating from 1986, was published by Babel. The second edition, an English translation by Mike Mitchell, was published by Dedalus … Continue reading →

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Colum McCann’s feel-good fiction (and cheap use of photography)

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Patrick Lennon

I was surprised to discover a photograph reproduced in Colum McCann’s award-winning Let the Great World Spin (2009), which I recently picked up in this second-hand Random House edition dating from 2010. The novel takes places on and around 7 … Continue reading →

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Letter to Mister H. (or Mister H. Learns To Drive)

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Patrick Lennon

Dear Mister H., I’ve just finished reading your short but dense novel Mercedes-Benz – in the English translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, of course, since I don’t know a word of Polish. Indeed, yours is one of the very few Polish … Continue reading →

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Novels with pictures in them?

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Patrick Lennon

It’s hard to know what to call, well, novels with pictures in them. And yet, the first of these books was, it seems, published in 1892 by the Belgian writer Georges Rodenbach: his Bruges-la-Morte includes 35 pictures, mostly picture postcards … Continue reading →

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