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...Yell, Sam, If You Still Canby Maylis Besserie, translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Lilliput £13 This daring debut (the first instalment in a projected trilogy) imagines the last months of Samuel Beckett’s...
...She tells us that she used to make it for her daughter Quintana. Rivals moments ago, Sontag and Baldwin team up....
...Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize....
...slave, arrived in England in 1750 to work as the valet of Samuel Johnson, the giant of 18th-century English letters....
...… Fiction in Translation by Ángel Gurría-Quintana The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, by Jérôme Ferrari, translated by Geoffrey Strachan, Maclehose Press, RRP£12.99 Winner of France’s Goncourt prize, Ferrari...
...Ángel Gurría Quintana …………………………………………………………….....
...Angel Gurría-Quintana is the FT’s fiction reviewer ………………………………………………………....
...Fiction Compiled by Angel Gurría-Quintana 2666 By Roberto BolañoTranslated by Natasha Wimmer Picador £20, 912 pages Hailed as a masterpiece, the late Bolaño’s sprawling and ambitious work mixes the story...
...Samuel Huntington, the Harvard professor who coined the phrase ”clash of civilisations” to describe the cultural rift between Islam and the west, has aired his unease about the perceived threat to Anglo-American...
...Bioy began keeping his diary in 1947, after editing an anthology of Samuel Johnson’s work. He aspired to become Borges’ Boswell, chronicler of the great man’s life and recorder of his every utterance....
...There are echoes of Krapp’s Last Tape, by Samuel Beckett, though we are deprived of Beckett’s tightness and precision. Auster has always rewarded his fans by making them feel clever....
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