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Entries from May 23rd, 2011

Lost in translation

May 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments · Life

How strange. For some reason I have read very few English translations of foreign books.  Of the thousands of books I have read only a handful have been translations.  I have not read Tolstoy or Proust and would not be surprised if I had read less than a dozen ‘foreign’ books: a couple of Voltaires, […]

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The Map of Time

May 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Life

Just finished a book called The Map of Time by Felix Palma.   It is due to be published on June 9th though it is not entirely new: it was first published in 2008 in Spanish, but this is the English translation of it. A bit strange that it has taken so long to come out […]

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