Dostoevsky’s reputation anxiety
Dostoevsky’s early descent from cause celebre to bad joke took fifteen days. Daniel Kalder says his ego never recovered.
Dostoevsky’s early descent from cause celebre to bad joke took fifteen days. Daniel Kalder says his ego never recovered.
“If you were to send the 16th edition [of the Chicago Manual of Style] back to 2003, when the 15th edition came out, it would read like science fiction.”
Lydia Davis originally declined to translate Madame Bovary. Then she “realized that the style she’d dismissed as unremarkable, all those years ago, wasn’t even really Flaubert’s.” (Via; see also.)
Granta announces its picks for “best young Spanish-language novelists.” I’m a big fan of Alejandro Zambra, whose The Private Lives of Trees I think of as a less abstract, more intimate counterpart to Robbe-Grillet’s mesmerizing Jealousy.
Jim Shepard, author of Love and Hydrogen and Project X, guest-edited the fall issue of Ploughshares. (Via.)