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Review of The House of Wittgenstein by Alexander Waugh (see our review-overview) in The New Yorker really annoyed us.Gottlieb offers his take on the subject matter, rather than on how Waugh deals with it and presents it, leaving the reader none the wiser whether or not Waugh's book has anything to it to recommend it.Indeed, among Gottlieb's few mentions of the book at hand is the rather desperate stretch of referring not to the book but the publicity-copy for it - and even then he avoids taking issue with what the copy actually says (i.e. ), but Anthony Gottlieb's. Well, reviews of the books ostensibly under review.Too often, however, in certain periodicals, they tend not to be, especially when they are 'reviews' of non-fiction titles.In fact, it's pretty common practise, so perhaps it's unfair to pick on a specific example (pretty much any edition of The New York Review of Books would yield several. The latest addition to my website is Andrs Neuman's El viajero del siglo (Traveller of the Century) though, unlike the previous two, it has.Opinionated commentary on literary matters - from the complete reviewSpinning into Butter film | Christian Enzensberger (1931-2009)A reminder that from 1 to 4 April they'll be holding Oulipo in New York: a Workshop of Experimental Literature.Among the events of particular interest: the launch of Jacques Roubaud’s The Loop at Idlewild Bookstore (2 April, at 19:00).We expect to review it fairly soon meanwhile, see the Dalkey Archive Press publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.Also: the Discussion with Ian Monk and David Bellos at the Maison Française (3 April, 10:00-11:30).See also our reviews of Monk's Family Archaeology and Writings for the Oulipo, and Bellos' biography of Georges Perec.And see also all the Oulipo titles we have under review.(Posted by: complete review) - permanent link -We like our reviews to be. En 2010, de resultas de la gira de promoci&243 n de El viajero del siglo, public&243 el libro de viajes C&243 mo viajar sin ver (Alfaguara, 2010), e incluso ha escrito tres textos que podr&237 an asociarse al g&233 nero de las m&225 ximas y aforismos: ElI am continuing my reading of Spanish-language novels.An Anatomy of Dirt (l972).The German title was: Größerer Versuch über den Schmutz disappointingly, both the German and English editions appear to be way, way out of print.We missed it, but Christian Enzensberger passed away on 27 January.Milan Kundera celebrates his 80th birthday on 1 April, and in The Australian Geordie Williamson looks at the Eternal exile of Milan Kundera.More Geoff Dyer coverage, as the first reviews for Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi are in, and at the Financial Times Anna Metcalfe's Small Talk-column offers a Q & A with him - and he acknowledges:How would you earn your living if you had to give up writing ?I’d go on the dole. Yes, also a Jew.)Christian Enzensberger is best known for his translations from the English - notably of Lewis Carroll's Alice-books - but, as The Times' obituary notes:From his base in English literature, which he never neglected or deserted, his restless intellect ranged far wider.Totally unrelated to his literary work, he became fascinated by dirt, physical and verbal.He applied his considerable scholarly skills to the topic, and published a dissertation on it in l968.Its first edition rapidly sold out and two more German editions followed.Its English translation appeared as Smut. Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)While looking up the various German literary prizes Thomas Bernhard won and wrote about in Meine Preise we came across the name of the only person to reject the Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen - Hans Magnus Enzensberger's younger brother, Christian Enzensberger.(The prize obviously had some problems: as winner, Bernhard was then invited to be on the jury for the next year's award he suggested giving it to Elias Canetti, but apparently few of the other jurors knew who he was and one who did noted: "But he's also a Jew", which was apparently enough for the others not to bother considering him for the prize - though when they couldn't settle on anyone someone picked out a Wolfgang Hildesheimer book and they decided to toss the prize his way - unaware, Bernhard suggests, that Hildesheimer was.Le Clézio (see, for example, our review of The Prospector) is headed to, of all places, Mississippi State University to headline their, of all things, 'Mauritian Week'. Le Clézio at Mississippi State | Brian Dillon on Chris Marker's La JetéeNobel laureate J.M.G.
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