The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Emmanuel Bove's Henri Duchemin and His Shadows, just (about) out from New York Review Books.
Always nice to see some more Bove available in English -- a few titles have been translated (three more are under review at the complete review), but they're pretty hard to come by, and it's still only a fraction of his output; a revival is more than overdue .....
In his Introduction Donald Breckenridge mentions several of Bove's not-yet-available-in-English titles -- including the: "criminally untranslated" La Coalition, which I'm pleased to find on my bookshelf, a deaccessioned New York Public Library copy, bought for fifty cents in 2003; "Ses espoirs seront vains", promises the back-cover copy, and: "les deux oisifs marcheront inéluctablement vers la misère et la mort" -- so how is it possible I haven't read this yet ?
Always nice to see some more Bove available in English -- a few titles have been translated (three more are under review at the complete review), but they're pretty hard to come by, and it's still only a fraction of his output; a revival is more than overdue .....
In his Introduction Donald Breckenridge mentions several of Bove's not-yet-available-in-English titles -- including the: "criminally untranslated" La Coalition, which I'm pleased to find on my bookshelf, a deaccessioned New York Public Library copy, bought for fifty cents in 2003; "Ses espoirs seront vains", promises the back-cover copy, and: "les deux oisifs marcheront inéluctablement vers la misère et la mort" -- so how is it possible I haven't read this yet ?