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Joseph Roth: a Life in Letters
27 February 2012

A translator's hero worship.

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New Finnish Grammar
27 June 2011
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Wittgenstein’s awkward nephew
13 January 2011

Thomas Bernhard was a great satirist, a lone voice of comic dissent as bourgeois Austria, the country of his birth and death, descended into decadent smugness.

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Modernism still matters
06 September 2010

Writers such as T S Eliot and Samuel Beckett worked in synchrony with continental Europeans such as Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka, pushing against the limitations of art. Why have English-language writers turned away from this challenge?

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