I got sleepy on lunch break and sat in the sun. Everything was quiet and all the cups and bowls around me started to look like Velázquez cups and bowls.
The Roof Rat Review
- Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (trans). Detective Story. Knopf, 2008 (Detektívtörténet, 1977). Not bad, but strangely minor; Kertész had one subject, and deviating from it even partially yields an accomplished genre exercise.
- John Crowley. Four Freedoms. William Morrow, 2009. It’s spooky how easily the WWII home front becomes a vanished Camelot, and Crowley knows it.
- Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (trans). The Bridegroom Was a Dog. Kodansha, 2003 (犬婿入り, 1993). Marriage to animals, marriage to the dead.
- Vera Tobin. Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot. Harvard University Press, 2018. The curse of knowledge is a fine narratological tool, the emphasis on pleasure essential.
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