Benjamin Kunkel
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Benjamin Kunkel (@kunktation.bsky.social) reviews Paul Reitter’s translation of Capital.
“The task of reading Capital naïvely acquires a fresh jolt of plausibility in the case of Paul Reitter’s new translation of volume one,” writes Kunkel.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
“The task of reading Capital naïvely acquires a fresh jolt of plausibility in the case of Paul Reitter’s new translation of volume one,” writes Kunkel.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Sameness of Different Things, by Benjamin Kunkel
Reading a new translation of Capital
harpers.org
April 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Benjamin Kunkel (@kunktation.bsky.social) reviews Paul Reitter’s translation of Capital.
“The task of reading Capital naïvely acquires a fresh jolt of plausibility in the case of Paul Reitter’s new translation of volume one,” writes Kunkel.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
“The task of reading Capital naïvely acquires a fresh jolt of plausibility in the case of Paul Reitter’s new translation of volume one,” writes Kunkel.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
3) And a review for @newyorker.com of Platonov's impossibly great CHEVENGUR: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How an Enthusiast of Soviet Socialism Fell Afoul of the Authorities
Andrei Platonov’s “Chevengur” depicts a Communist utopia, but Stalin loathed his writing, calling the author “scum.”
www.newyorker.com
December 30, 2024 at 1:33 PM
3) And a review for @newyorker.com of Platonov's impossibly great CHEVENGUR: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...