Monthly Archives: October 2010

The Austrian Point of View; Transcript by Heimrad Baecker

Originally published in German as Nachscrift by Edition Neue Texte, 1986. This edition, Dalkey Archive Press, 2010. Edited and with an afterword by Friedrich Achleitner, Translation by Patrick Greaney and Vincent Kling,Afterword to the English Edition by Patrick Greaney. This … Continue reading

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The Russian Point of View, according to Virginia Woolf

‘When you have changed every word in a sentence from Russian to English, have thereby altered the sense a little,the sound, weight,and accent of the words in relation to each other completely, nothing remains except a crude and coarsened version … Continue reading

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The Russian Point of View- the smell of old boks

From The Common Reader, First series, by Virginia Woolf,The Hogarth Press,London, 1968, eleventh impression. First published 1928. I bought this book yesterday from Quilters Bookshop. It has been in the window for a few weeks, and it attracted my attention … Continue reading

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