The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Claudio Magris' novel, Blindly, just out in Yale University Press' great Margellos World Republic of Letters series (though it was already published in a Canadian edition in 2010, by Hamish Hamilton).
I'm surprised by the lack of pre-publication reviews -- and the lack of Canadian coverage when it came out there. A perennial Nobel Prize-contender, Magris hasn't made a huge slash in English, but he is fairly well-known, and this is quite an impressive work.
(It is, however, the sort of book I'm tempted to write three reviews about, there's so much to be said about it, and different aspects of it.)
I'm surprised by the lack of pre-publication reviews -- and the lack of Canadian coverage when it came out there. A perennial Nobel Prize-contender, Magris hasn't made a huge slash in English, but he is fairly well-known, and this is quite an impressive work.
(It is, however, the sort of book I'm tempted to write three reviews about, there's so much to be said about it, and different aspects of it.)