Dark suspicion

I've got a deep dark suspicion
that pretty soon we should start
looking around for another planet
for ourselves. 

Wolfgang Borchert (20 May 1921 – 20 November 1947)

Beers & Books (418) – By the Lake

Oh, a book by John that I don't know yet?
So I asked my bookseller to order it for me in the USA.
A few days later I held ‘By the Lake’ in my hands,
opened it and started reading.
‘The morning was clear. There was no wind on the lake.’
A déjà vu? I know that one, don't I?
And right:
Exactly the beginning of ‘That They May Face The Rising Sun’.
Vintage International had just changed the title.

John McGahern (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006)

 

Beers & Books (417) – Upton Sinclair: Öl.!

Oil!

Upton Sinclair (20 September 1878 – 25 November 1968)

Beers & Books (416) – Parlavà Suite and others

Suite de Parlavà
seguit de
Algú que espera
&
Llibre de les solituds

Miquel Martí i Pol  (19 March 1929 – 11 November 2003)

Beers & Books (415) – Yeats is Dead

;-)

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939)

Beers & Books (414) – Geschichte des Prinzen Biribinker

The Story of Prince Biribinker
is considered the first literary fairy tale
to be published in the German language (1769).
Glorious. ;-)

Christoph Martin Wieland (5 September 1733 – 20 January 1813)

Beers & Books (413) – Han Kang: Greek lessons

Greek Lessons
*
La classe de grec

Han Kang *27 November 1970

Beers&Books (412) – La hija del comunista

The Communist's Daughter
*
La hija del comunista

Aroa Moreno Durán *1981

Beers & Books (411) – Cristina Morales: Easy language

Lectura fácil

Cristina Morales *1985

Beers & Books (410) Parlavà Suite & others

Suite de Parlavà (1991)
&
Algú que espera (1990)
&
Llibre de les solituds (1997)

 
Miquel Martí i Pol  (19 March 1929 – 11 November 2003)*

 * It looks as if non of Martí i Pol's work has yet been translated into English.

Beers & Books (409) – Dear Marta & Haikus ...

Estimada Marta
&
Haikús en temps de guerra

Miquel Martí i Pol  (19 March 1929 – 11 November 2003)

Beers & Books (408) – Henry Miller: Big Sur

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Henry Miller (26 December, 1891 – 7 June, 1980)

Edna O'Brien

I wish Dame Edna could enjoy celebrating her 94th today. Perhaps she would tell us that her new book will be about an insane and megalomaniacal criminal who - you could laugh if it didn't make you want to vomit - has been elected President of the allegedly united States of America.

 

Without intending to belittle other writers, for me Edna O'Brien, together with John McGahern, is the greatest Irish author of the past decades. Both had in common their books were banned in Ireland.
Above's interview from 1976 is on her trilogy "The Country Girls".

 

 The interview above's taken in 2012.

And this one after release of ‘The Little Red Chairs’ (2015)

Enjoy!

Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024)

Beers & Books (407) – Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

 Apostolos Doxiadis * 1953

Christian Goldbach (18 March 1690 – 20 November 1764)

Goldbach's Conjecture

Beers & Books (406) – Paul Lynch: The Prophet Song

The Prophet Song

Paul Lynch *1977

Beers & Books (405) – Sylvia Plath: Love Poems

Love Poems

Sylvia Plath (27 October 1932 – 11 February 1963) 

Beers & Books (403) – Máirtín O'Cadhain: The Key

Why would people call this book kafkaesque?
It's an excellent Ó Cadhain.

Máirtín ò Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)

Beers & Books (402) – Miller: Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller (17 October 1915 – 10 February 2005)

Beers & Books (401) – Katherine Mansfield

The Collected Stories

Katherine Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923)

Beers & Books (402) – Three more books fitting the beer

So that I don't get bored, my library has been updated on the occasion of my attempt to orbit the sun one more time, starting today.  

Two novels
and
an anthology with 28 stories

And as an encore:
three books that I had only wished for Christmas ;-)