Christopher Middleton Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Die Reihe P bietet eine Sammlung zeitgenössischer Lyrik, die bedeutende internationale Stimmen der modernen Poesie umfasst. Durch sorgfältige Nachdichtungen wird den deutschen Lesern ein Zugang zu diesen wichtigen lyrischen Werken ermöglicht, wodurch die Vielfalt und Tiefe der aktuellen Poesieszene erlebbar wird.

Published in 1908, the novel is a notebook, a boy?s impressions of life at the school for servants run by the brother and sister Benjamenta. The lesson of the school is humility and the rejection of power and ambition. It is a lesson that the narrator, Jakob von Gunten, learns well. From his vantage point, he is able to see through the absurd posturings of his fellow students. Like his creation Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser understood of the attractions of infinitesimal smallness and kept well away from the corruptions and temptations of literary life. An outsider who spent his last twenty-seven years in an asylum, Walser was a writer?s writer whose work was much admired by Kafka, Hesse and Mann. His voice appeals to all those who savour silence in an epoch of deafening noise. Now a major feature film directed by the Quay Brothers, Institute Benjamenta is Walser?s masterpiece. Ninety years after its first publication, this edition offers the chance to read a truly extraordinary classic.

Collection includes conversations with Willard Trask, John Hollander, Herbert Mason, Ben Belitt, Richard Wilbur, Robert Fitzgerald, Max Hayward, Edmund Keeley, Octavio Paz, Michael Hamberger, Christopher Middleton. Twelve distinguished translators share their thoughts on the art and practice of literary translation in this lively series of interviews. Although the common subject is the translation of poetry, the conversations range across a field of related topics: how each person got started as a translator, how each goes about the work, the qualities that distinguish a great translation from a merely serviceable one, the theoretic issues posed by poetic translation, the barriers of culture and time, the practical details of rendering a poem from one language to the next. --University of Massachusetts Press.

Christopher Middleton described it as being a series of texts “on the nature of evil”.

Sospesa tra biografia e romanzo la storia di Christa T., amica d'infanzia morta di leucemia, attraversa la memoria collettiva di una generazione lacerata. La malattia del corpo diventa simbolo del dolore dell'anima di una donna che "ha cercato con ogni energia di diventare se stessa" in un mondo in cui l'omologazione è senza scampo.