M.A.Orthofer
@maorthofer.bsky.social
And so did the 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 !!!
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
And so did the 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 !!!
When 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 reviewed the first translation of this one they paired it with ... Musil's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 !
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 reviewed the first translation of this one they paired it with ... Musil's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 !
Have never been able to find a copy of that one, so I had to plump for:
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Have never been able to find a copy of that one, so I had to plump for:
(No publisher/distributor page yet; Google AI helpful as always, *sigh* (language recognition is apparently hard — but, hey, that is the title of the Spanish translation sajalineditores.com/libros/mia-e...).
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
(No publisher/distributor page yet; Google AI helpful as always, *sigh* (language recognition is apparently hard — but, hey, that is the title of the Spanish translation sajalineditores.com/libros/mia-e...).
In the mail: nice to see a Friedrich Torberg recovered by Recovered Books/Boiler House Press, an ARC of 𝑉𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑒, coming 3/2026
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In the mail: nice to see a Friedrich Torberg recovered by Recovered Books/Boiler House Press, an ARC of 𝑉𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑒, coming 3/2026
*Sigh* (editors ...), not quite, in the online version — which is what I had/have to rely on, down to the missing diacritical .....
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
*Sigh* (editors ...), not quite, in the online version — which is what I had/have to rely on, down to the missing diacritical .....
(I like the original Hungarian cover of this one.)
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
(I like the original Hungarian cover of this one.)
First time I've ever seen a Literary Saloon post come up as a Google "News" result (I'm still searching for any (non-Albanian) media mentions of David Bellos' passing ...). Good to see, I guess, though as the dating suggests, all is not well at/with Google search.
November 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
First time I've ever seen a Literary Saloon post come up as a Google "News" result (I'm still searching for any (non-Albanian) media mentions of David Bellos' passing ...). Good to see, I guess, though as the dating suggests, all is not well at/with Google search.
Considerable shelving uncertainty about this one in the central/west Mass. library system. (They have two French copies as well, shelved under "FRE FICTION")
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Considerable shelving uncertainty about this one in the central/west Mass. library system. (They have two French copies as well, shelved under "FRE FICTION")
And good to see Tergit recognizing:
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
And good to see Tergit recognizing:
Amused to see Oscar Wilde's 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑒 feature quite significantly in Gabriele Tergit's 𝐸𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 ( www.complete-review.com/reviews/deut... )
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Amused to see Oscar Wilde's 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑒 feature quite significantly in Gabriele Tergit's 𝐸𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 ( www.complete-review.com/reviews/deut... )
Will never, ever understand the publishing *business*.
October 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Will never, ever understand the publishing *business*.
Today's (21 October) "ticket status" even less encouraging than corporate/tech support usually is , *sigh*.
October 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Today's (21 October) "ticket status" even less encouraging than corporate/tech support usually is , *sigh*.
Our very good teacher explained the game — and brought in chestnuts for an in-class competition. Among the very few pieces of high school memorabilia I still have is my bruised but unbeaten 'hacking chestnut' (yes, I, and it, emerged victorious, local conker champ ca. anno 1982).
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Our very good teacher explained the game — and brought in chestnuts for an in-class competition. Among the very few pieces of high school memorabilia I still have is my bruised but unbeaten 'hacking chestnut' (yes, I, and it, emerged victorious, local conker champ ca. anno 1982).
Amused to see article in @economist.com about conkers (and that this: "once-ubiquitous autumnal playground pastime is dying out") www.economist.com/britain/2025... [£]. American-educated, I learned what conkers was in high school English when we read 𝐴 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑎𝑛:
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Amused to see article in @economist.com about conkers (and that this: "once-ubiquitous autumnal playground pastime is dying out") www.economist.com/britain/2025... [£]. American-educated, I learned what conkers was in high school English when we read 𝐴 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑎𝑛:
Edward Gorey gets a headstone ! irontontribune.com/2025/10/14/g...
October 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Edward Gorey gets a headstone ! irontontribune.com/2025/10/14/g...
Local library book sale today, my $25 haul. Mainly unexpected stuff, which is fine; the Mahler CDs are LP-replacements, not first choice re. recordings but should do. (And I suspect I have the Dalkey Archive edition of the Sarraute .....)
October 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Local library book sale today, my $25 haul. Mainly unexpected stuff, which is fine; the Mahler CDs are LP-replacements, not first choice re. recordings but should do. (And I suspect I have the Dalkey Archive edition of the Sarraute .....)
On the one hand, somewhat disappointed they didn't go with the original title ('Anti sapiens'); on the other hand, very relieved they didn't go with the original cover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
On the one hand, somewhat disappointed they didn't go with the original title ('Anti sapiens'); on the other hand, very relieved they didn't go with the original cover.
These look great ! And despite slim size (basically: 100 pp) they manage to 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 — on the spines !
October 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
These look great ! And despite slim size (basically: 100 pp) they manage to 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 — on the spines !
Nobel-laureate Krasznahorkai's archive (his "Vorlass") is at the Austrian National Library — "84 Archivboxen, 12 Kisten" www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/l... Including some of his diaries, apparently:
October 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Nobel-laureate Krasznahorkai's archive (his "Vorlass") is at the Austrian National Library — "84 Archivboxen, 12 Kisten" www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/l... Including some of his diaries, apparently:
Most recent review was of the new novel by Wolf Haas, and am amused to see him in good company in this foreign-rights-attempted-sales-job for a book by another author www.kiwi-verlag.de/verlag/right... If this were true, I'd be all over this — but I fear they're promising more than it can deliver.
October 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Most recent review was of the new novel by Wolf Haas, and am amused to see him in good company in this foreign-rights-attempted-sales-job for a book by another author www.kiwi-verlag.de/verlag/right... If this were true, I'd be all over this — but I fear they're promising more than it can deliver.
Not exactly surprised by Merve Emre's response to the question: "Where and When Do You Read ?" but: respect/admiration/envy. An ideal I only sometimes manage to approach. (Via @sansip.bsky.social ) linkst.thecut.com/view/6356a9c...
October 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Not exactly surprised by Merve Emre's response to the question: "Where and When Do You Read ?" but: respect/admiration/envy. An ideal I only sometimes manage to approach. (Via @sansip.bsky.social ) linkst.thecut.com/view/6356a9c...
My novel 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑧 isn't exactly flying off the bookshelves (our out of the warehouse) at Amazon, but the "Customers who bought this item also bought"-trio suggests its readership is very discerning, with excellent taste. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...
September 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My novel 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑧 isn't exactly flying off the bookshelves (our out of the warehouse) at Amazon, but the "Customers who bought this item also bought"-trio suggests its readership is very discerning, with excellent taste. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...
Different times: the 1950s housewife narrating Marlen Haushofer's 𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 on spending some quality-time with her fifteen-year-old son — translating Homer, as one does.
September 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Different times: the 1950s housewife narrating Marlen Haushofer's 𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 on spending some quality-time with her fifteen-year-old son — translating Homer, as one does.
Pascal Quignard looks as surprised as anyone that he won this year's prix Jean Monnet de littérature européenne (beating out books by Josef Winkler and Mircea Cărtărescu). litteratures-europeennes.com/les-prix-lit...
September 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Pascal Quignard looks as surprised as anyone that he won this year's prix Jean Monnet de littérature européenne (beating out books by Josef Winkler and Mircea Cărtărescu). litteratures-europeennes.com/les-prix-lit...