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Dear Violette, At one point in Asphyxia (2020, tr. Derek Coltman. Original: L’Asphyxie, 1946), the unnamed narrator is standing on the sidewalk, peeking through a window at…… Read more “My mother never held my hand”
Month: January 2021
Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc (7 April 1907 – 28 May 1972) was a French author. Born out of wedlock to the son of a wealthy family for whom her…… Read more “Violette Leduc”
Even after her head was struck off she behaved so beautifully
Hi, folks! This is post 3 of Deal me In. For more about this project & my previous posts on it, go here: Reading Plans | Weeks 1 | 2 | 3…… Read more “Even after her head was struck off she behaved so beautifully”
Mary de Morgan
Mary de Morgan (Mary Auguste De Morgan, 24 February 1850 – 18 May 1907) was an English writer. She was born to a family of intellectuals: her…… Read more “Mary de Morgan”
But leave me the machine of blue colors
Four poems by Alfonsina Storni: one from the anthology Nine Latin American Poets, ed. and tr. Rachel Benson (1968); two from the collection Alfonsina Storni: Selected Poems,…… Read more “But leave me the machine of blue colors”
Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni (29 May 1892 – 25 October 1938) was an Argentine author. She was born in Switzerland to an Italian-Swiss family. When she was four years…… Read more “Alfonsina Storni”
This restless craving for sun and love and motion
Hi, folks! This is post 2 of Deal me In. For more about this project & my previous posts on it, go here: Reading Plans | Weeks 1 | 2 (you…… Read more “This restless craving for sun and love and motion”
George Egerton
George Egerton (pen name of Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright; 14 December 1859 – 12 August 1945) was an Australian-born Irish writer. She was born in Melbourne, Australia,…… Read more “George Egerton”
He who takes me will feel my heart beating in his hand
Three poems by Mririda N’Ait Atiq: one from the anthology The Penguin Book of Women Poets, ed. Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe, and Kathleen Weaver (1978, translated from…… Read more “He who takes me will feel my heart beating in his hand”
Mririda N’Ait Atiq
Mririda N’Ait Atiq (c. 1900 – c. 1940) was a Moroccan Berber Shilha poet. Little is known about her life. Born in the village of Megdaz, in…… Read more “Mririda N’Ait Atiq”
A trail of books: on Carolina Nabuco’s A Sucessora (‘The Sucessor’, 1934) and the plagiarism charges against Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938)
The other Rebecca A Sucessora (1934, ‘The Successor’) opens with a couple returning from their honeymoon trip. The first chapter unravels through an extended scene that feels…… Read more “A trail of books: on Carolina Nabuco’s A Sucessora (‘The Sucessor’, 1934) and the plagiarism charges against Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938)”
Carolina Nabuco
Carolina Nabuco (née Maria Carolina Nabuco de Araújo. February 9th, 1890 – August 18th, 1981) was a Brazilian author. Daughter of the statesman Joaquim Nabuco, Carolina was…… Read more “Carolina Nabuco”
Her heart is this red apple
Dear Irina, When Isolde (2019, tr. Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinberg. Original: Изольда, 1929) opens, it’s summer, sometime in the wild 1920’s, and we are in Biarritz.…… Read more “Her heart is this red apple”
In the transparent silence of night,
Six poems by Irina Odoevtseva: three from the collection A Russian cultural revival: a critical anthology of émigré literature before 1939, edited and translated by Temira Pachmuss…… Read more “In the transparent silence of night,”
Irina Odoevtseva
Irina Vladimirovna Odoevtseva (Ирина Влади′мировна Одо′евцева, pen name of Ираида Густавовна Гейнике – Iraida Gustavovna Geinike. Latvian: Iraida Heinike. 15 June 1895 – 14 October 1990) was…… Read more “Irina Odoevtseva”
Her perversities were as essential a part of her work as her inspirations,
Hi, folks, This is post 1 of Deal me In. For more about this project & my previous posts on it, go here: Reading Plans | Weeks…… Read more “Her perversities were as essential a part of her work as her inspirations,”
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Constance Fenimore Woolson (March 5, 1840 – January 24, 1894) was an American writer. Woolson was born in Claremont, New Hampshire. Shortly after her birth, three of…… Read more “Constance Fenimore Woolson”
Most Anticipated Books | 2021
Hi, folks, Here are some forthcoming books that are on my radar for 2021, listed in chronological order by publication date: My Most Anticipated Books January: A…… Read more “Most Anticipated Books | 2021”
