Poland to expel “unpatriotic” literary classics from schools?
The right-wing Polish Government’s plan to drop the writings of Gombrowicz, Conrad, Goethe, and Kafka from school syllabi prompts comparisons to Ferdydurke.
The right-wing Polish Government’s plan to drop the writings of Gombrowicz, Conrad, Goethe, and Kafka from school syllabi prompts comparisons to Ferdydurke.
Patrick Mortensen, former Sugar Land, TX resident and fellow Brooklyn transplant, offered some context for my great-granddad’s philanderings after I posted about his predilection for dragging the family to construction sites and then abandoning them to shack up with someone new. “Based on the pretty faces I remember from 63 years or so after Zone was there,” said Mortensen, “he . . .
A new translation of Kafka makes his stories more immediate, but does it also underscore the shabbiness of many translations of recent works? (Via.)
In a previously unpublished defense of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain argues that the poet’s obscenities are nothing compared to what you’ll find in the classics. (Via.)
Hellenic Studies scholars are using a robot arm to scan the oldest known copy of Homer’s Iliad, with an eye toward creating a 3-D replica of the manuscript. (Via.)