NRC Handelsblad now offer a list of their 10 beste boeken van 2014.
Kees 't Hart's novel Teatro Olimpico (see the Querido publicity page) tops the list, and several US and UK titles make the top ten, including books by Phil Klay, Naomi Klein, as well as Ian McEwan's De kinderwet; so does Piketty's Capital, and a Svetlana Alexievich (when will more of her work finally come out in English ?). But the really striking title is an old one: the Dutch translation of 1937 Nobel laureate Roger Martin du Gard's classic saga, The Thibaults.
Stuart Gilbert -- Joyce-scholar and noted translator from the French -- translated this back in the day (complete finally in 1941), but it's been long out of print; Knopf had a go at his unfinished Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) some fifteen years ago, but that didn't really take either. So will there be an English-language revival ?
I guess I should dig out my multi-volume edition and refresh, just in case .....
Kees 't Hart's novel Teatro Olimpico (see the Querido publicity page) tops the list, and several US and UK titles make the top ten, including books by Phil Klay, Naomi Klein, as well as Ian McEwan's De kinderwet; so does Piketty's Capital, and a Svetlana Alexievich (when will more of her work finally come out in English ?). But the really striking title is an old one: the Dutch translation of 1937 Nobel laureate Roger Martin du Gard's classic saga, The Thibaults.
Stuart Gilbert -- Joyce-scholar and noted translator from the French -- translated this back in the day (complete finally in 1941), but it's been long out of print; Knopf had a go at his unfinished Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) some fifteen years ago, but that didn't really take either. So will there be an English-language revival ?
I guess I should dig out my multi-volume edition and refresh, just in case .....