R. often points out, about cars, that “they can’t get upset because they don’t have faces and they don’t talk.” Today she leapt without warning to the paraphrase: “They can’t get upset because they don’t have faces or minds.”
The Roof Rat Review
- Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (trans). Facing the Bridge. New Directions, 2007 (Facing the Bridge (New Directions Paperbook), 2007). The story of Amo was better handled than a lot of writers might have done, but my favorite thing was the riff on Anne Duden.
- Magdalena Tulli, Bill Johnston (trans). Dreams and Stones. Archipelago, 2004 (Sny i kamienie, 1995). Recommended for Schulz and Calvino fans, which unfortunately I'm not quite.
- Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (trans). The Union Jack. Melville House, 2010 (Az angol lobogó, 1991). "The unattainably remote notion of a private life." Just the best.
- Katie Kitamura. A Separation. Riverhead Books, 2017. It's nice to see a display of control and restraint getting so much attention.
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