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Wednesday 10 May 2006
Stéphane Mallarmé
Just out from OUP is Stéphane Mallarmé: Collected Poems and other verse (new translations by EH and AM Blackmore; parallel French text). Mallarmé (1842-1898) is known to be one of the most radical and innovative and nineteenth-century; his work still strikes as magnificently modern. He is also known to be difficult. Leader of the Symbolist movement in poetry with Paul Verlaine, and at the centre of a group of Paris-based writers like Proust, Gide and Paul Valéry, Mallarmé infuriated his peers, and his friends like Edgar Degas, with his insistence on his theories of "pure poetry". More to follow on Mallarmé when I've read this and read up!
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: authors, book news
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Wednesday 10 May 2006
The Reader on the radio
I meant to mention this t'other day: our friends at The Reader were featured on Radio 4's Home Truths. The programme highlighted Get Into Reading, an outreach project run by The Reader which aims to change people's lives with books.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: blogosphere
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Wednesday 10 May 2006
TLS offer
As many of you will have seen, I've been trying to arrange some great subscription offers for RSB readers. The offers that we have with PN Review and The Reader are just the first of many: watch out for offers coming soon in conjunction with Agenda, Granta and Poetry magazine. Excitingly, the Times Literary Supplement have come on board and are offering RSB readers the chance to save up to 58% on a subscription. This isn't strictly an exclusive offer, but it is, as I understand, the best offer they do (the standard saving on a subscription is up to 43% rather than up to 58%). So, if you want to subscribe to the TLS at a fantastic rate you know what to do. (If you are an non-UK-based reader and wish to subscribe to the TLS at a reduced rate email me - I still need to get this aspect sorted.)
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: rsb
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Wednesday 10 May 2006
Marx and Flaubert
Who knew? (via adswithoutproducts)
The English edition of Madame Bovary hosted by Gutenberg was translated by none other than Eleanor Marx ... Karl Marx's youngest daughter. I had no idea. I probably should have known, but I didn't.
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Tags: authors
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