Fuse Book Review: The Print-Pantheist — Cyprian Norwid’s “Poems”
In light of the many translations of Cyprian Norwid's verse into English, Danuta Borchardt thought carefully about what she was going to focus on.
View ArticleFuse Poetry Review: Translucent Translations — “Wheel with a Single Spoke”
Nichita Stănescu is one of the poets who broke through the socialist-realism sound barrier and propelled Romanian poetry into new spheres.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “The Woman of Porto Pim”— Riding on a Brilliant Train of...
Antonio Tabucchi's "travel book" transcends conventional literary forms: his stories occupy an attractive space between fiction and non-fiction, poetry, biography, short story and journalistic travel...
View ArticleFuse Poetry Review: A Spanish Metaphysical Poet Searching for Songs of Truth
Poet José Ángel Valente deeply considered what kind of lyricism remains legitimate; that is, truthful, not deceptive; a song that moves us to truth, not a Siren’s song.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: Pierre Michon and his Many Artistic “Lives”
The books are bleak in that Pierre Michon provides no reassuring, idealistic view of the creative urge. Art leads to no transcendence, no permanent uplifting sentiment. Making poems or making pictures...
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “Our Lady of the Nile”— Prefiguring Rwandan Genocide
Because of the national tension between the Tutsis and the Hutus, and its effects on everyday routines in the school, this novel cannot long remain a bemusing tale of adolescent life.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: “The fuzzy cinema of certain key events of my life” –...
Ready to Burst is a compelling, intricately structured story told in resourceful, oft-poetic language by a influential Haitian poet and novelist.
View ArticleFuse Poetry Review: Rediscovering Aimé Césaire — The Politics and Poetics of...
Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire suggest that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: At the Opaque Heart of Life — The Short Stories of Sait Faik
Sometimes called the “Turkish Balzac” and, more often, the “Turkish Chekhov,” Sait Faik actually had a literary vision all his own.
View ArticleFuse Book Review: Antonio Tabucchi’s “Time Ages in a Hurry”— A Diary of Dreams
Antonio Tabucchi's fluid style moves easily from realism to surrealism, banal conversation to poetic free association, reportage to allusion.
View ArticleBook Interview: A New Take on Kafka — A Conversation with Peter Wortsman
The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.
View ArticleBook Review: “Cockroaches”— A Gruesome Story, Memorably Told
Scholastique Mukasonga’s autobiography, Cockroaches, examines the three decades leading up to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.
View ArticleBook Review: “Our Lady of the Nile”— Prefiguring Rwandan Genocide
Because of the national tension between the Tutsis and the Hutus, and its effects on everyday routines in the school, this novel cannot long remain a bemusing tale of adolescent life. The post Book...
View ArticleBook Review: “The fuzzy cinema of certain key events of my life” –...
Ready to Burst is a compelling, intricately structured story told in resourceful, oft-poetic language by a influential Haitian poet and novelist. The post Book Review: “The fuzzy cinema of certain key...
View ArticlePoetry Review: Rediscovering Aimé Césaire — The Politics and Poetics of...
Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire suggest that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities. The post Poetry Review:...
View ArticleBook Review: At the Opaque Heart of Life — The Short Stories of Sait Faik
Sometimes called the “Turkish Balzac” and, more often, the “Turkish Chekhov,” Sait Faik actually had a literary vision all his own. The post Book Review: At the Opaque Heart of Life — The Short Stories...
View ArticleBook Review: Antonio Tabucchi’s “Time Ages in a Hurry”— A Diary of Dreams
Antonio Tabucchi's fluid style moves easily from realism to surrealism, banal conversation to poetic free association, reportage to allusion. The post Book Review: Antonio Tabucchi’s “Time Ages in a...
View ArticleBook Interview: A New Take on Kafka — A Conversation with Peter Wortsman
The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics. The post Book Interview: A New Take on Kafka — A Conversation with Peter Wortsman appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
View ArticleBook Review: “Cockroaches”— A Gruesome Story, Memorably Told
Scholastique Mukasonga’s autobiography, Cockroaches, examines the three decades leading up to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. The post Book Review: “Cockroaches” — A Gruesome Story, Memorably Told...
View ArticleBook Review: “The Farm”— Obsessed With The Land
There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know. The post Book Review: “The Farm” — Obsessed With The Land appeared...
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