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Books What Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Teaches ReadersThe author frequently satirized those with bad literary habits—and, in her novels, gave audiences a model for how to read well. Karen Swallow Prior The AtlanticDec 24, 2018 Hugh Thomson / Hulton Archive / Getty Before she was a writer, Jane Austen was a reader. A reader, moreover, within a family of readers, who w..

Last Lines Alice B. Lloyd Weekly Standard December 14, 2018 at 5:51 AM After all, tomorrow is another day. Sometimes we know what a novel’s last line will be from the beginning, we just don’t know that we knew. It’s a trick readers of Less—a recent comic novel of lost love and world travel by Andrew Sean Greer—will recall: Less’s last line is “Less!” Right Ho, J..

Caught on Tape For avant-garde poets, audio recording was both a breakthrough and a threat. By Evan Kindley Poetry Foundation December 10th, 2018 In the winter of 1965, Allen Ginsberg hit the road in a Volkswagen camper. The trip was a speaking tour, of sorts, as Ginsberg was scheduled to read his poetry in cities all over the West Coast and the Midwest, but it was also an expe..

10 Literary Translators on the Art of Translation "Like the ghostwriter, the translator must slip on a second skin." November 28, 2018 By Emily Temple Literary Hub This year, for the first time, the National Book Foundation awarded a National Book Award for Translated Literature. As was no doubt their intention, the prominence of the award served not only as a way to celebrate..

A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 By George Blaustein New Yorker, November 26, 2018 No writer has been more trapped in a year’s granularity than Uwe Johnson was in 1968, chronicled in “Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl.” Photograph by Paul Swiridoff / ullstein bild / Getty The day was a favorite unit of time for the m..

"홍길동전은 허균보다 200년 뒤에 창작된 소설"조선일보 유석재 기자 입력 2018.11.26 03:00 '홍길동전의 작자…'쓴 이윤석 교수 최초의 한글 소설은 조선 중기 허균(1569~1618)이 쓴 '홍길동전'이며, 작품의 주제가 '적서(嫡庶) 차별 타파와 사회 개혁'이란 것은 한국인이 당연하게 여기는 '상식'이..

[아무튼, 주말] 더·가장·너무… 무한경쟁 사회, 부사도 센놈이 이겼다조선일보 박돈규 입력 2018.11.24 03:00 당신의 부사는 안녕한가요 일러스트= 안병현 부사(副詞)는 문장에서 없어도 그만일 것 같지만 국어학자들은 동의하지 않는다. 용언(동사나 형용사) 앞에 놓여 뜻을 분명하게 해주..

Between Two Languages: An Interview with Yoko Tawada By Alexandra Pereira Paris ReviewNovember 16, 2018 At Work Yoko Tawada (b. 1960), who writes in Japanese and German and has been translated around the world, studied Russian literature in Tokyo before hotfooting it to Hamburg: “Russian writing was just the greatest, but I couldn’t study in the Soviet Union for political r..

Someone says: “Form? Nonsense! When shit is poured into crystal, Does the glass become less pure?” Another objects: “Fool! If the best wine is poured into a chamber pot It won’t make people more likely to drink it.” The dispute can’t be resolved. . . Such a pity! Indeed, it is possible to pour shit into crystal. russian We are cultured: we clean our teeth, Mouth, a..

"한국은 아줌마의 어깨 위에 세워진 나라"조선일보 백수진 기자 입력 2018.11.15 03:44 [안드레스 솔라노] 콜롬비아 작가의 한국 관찰기 "남자 회사원들에게 매일의 면도는 불문율이다. 여자 회사원들에게 힐은 암묵적 의무다. 승용차의 90퍼센트가 까만색, 은색, 혹은 흰색이며 당연히 한국산..