Anna Aslanyan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Anna Aslanyan

I reviewed Milan Kundera's A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe -- two essays reflecting on national identity and artistic freedom -- for @TheTLS https://t.co/HqXovYyYIW

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Michael Frayn's new memoir, Among Others: Friendships and Encounters, is about settling old debts rather than old scores. I reviewed it for @spectator https://t.co/ZXWd22svJE

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What a find! Let's hope Miser! Miser! makes it to the stage, along with another classic, Alexander Griboyedov's Woe from Wit, translated by Burgess as Chatsky: The Importance of Being Stupid. More on Burgess and languages in my old @LRB blog piece: https://t.co/S4gqmuanXh https://t.co/ftCcRzon9o

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My book, Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History, is now out in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, translated into Chinese by Wang Ling and published by Cite https://t.co/SX3c7CU0Ms https://t.co/PYx5AeFXOO

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Leo Tolstoy was an ardent opponent of Russia's imperial aggression. His last major work, Hadji Murad, condemns Russian militarism in a woman’s voice: ‘What’s war? You are butchers, and that’s all there is to it.’ I wrote about it for @tribunemagazine https://t.co/Ip37Sn79CA

Anna Aslanyan

I reviewed Milan Kundera's A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe -- two essays reflecting on national identity and artistic freedom -- for @TheTLS https://t.co/HqXovYyYIW

Anna Aslanyan

I reviewed Florian Illies's Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-1939, translated by Simon Pare, for this week's @spectator https://t.co/YuSry2ZUIq

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Few treated the Russian language with the same passion as Isaac Babel. The more you read him, the more 'you want he should keep talking'. I reviewed a collection of his short stories, Of Sunshine and Bedbugs, translated by @BorisDralyuk, for @TheTLS. https://t.co/LKogSBwd8z

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@CBeditions Not that I am losing my grip: I am just tired of summer. You reach for a shirt in a drawer and the day is wasted. Joseph Brodsky, ‘A Part of Speech’, translated by Daniel Weissbort and the author https://t.co/ScoRpEoiMz

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‘After the three words “in the event” the probability of “that” as the next word is fairly high, and for “elephant” as the next word is very low,’ Warren Weaver writes in The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1949). Google proves him right. https://t.co/ITUGJoOzrv