Beers & Books CCCLII – Arno Schmidt Reader

Arno Schmidt
The great reading book

Arno Schmidt (18 January 1914 – 3 Juni 1979)

Beers & Books CCCLI – Der Lauf der Dinge

Collected Stories

Peter Stamm * 18 January 1963

Beers & Books CCCL – Let there be Dancing

Hier wird getanzt
Her skal danses (Let There Be Dancing)

William Heinesen (15 January 1900 – 12 March 1991)

Faroe Islands

Beers & Books CCCXLVIII – The Nazi & the Barber

The Nazi & the Barber
also published as The Nazi Who Lived AS a Jew

Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018)

Rather be it Shakespeare*

On Shakespeare's 459th birthday and

the 407th anniversary of either his death
and the death of Cervantes
just to wish a very special literary evening.

It's also the (International) Day of the book?

Well, yes. But isn't every day a day of the book?

Comparing the results of my recent attempts to write some sonnets myself with what I am rereading these days, I came to the conclusion, in order not to put anyone off the realm of poetry, to post rather one from the Master of Avondale.

Alack what poverty my muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside.
O blame me not if I no more can write!
Look in your glass and there appears a face,
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?
For to no other my verses tend,
Than of your graces and your gifts to tell.
       And more, much more than in my verse can sit,
       Your own glass shows you, when you look in it.

 

* knowing I would be fighting with a deadline, I went back to April 23rd, 2014, copied and pasted, updated the years, and voilà.

Beers & Books CCXXIV – Nell McCafferty

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Nell McCafferty * 28 March 1944

Beers & Books II

I would give all my fame
for a pot of ale.

Henry V: Act 3, Scene 2

 Shakespeare's sonnets