Beers & Books CCCLIII – Vater und Sohn unterwegs

Vater und Sohn unterwegs
Feðgar á ferð / The Old Man and His Sons

Heðin Brú (August 17, 1901 – May 18, 1987)

Faroe Islands

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 CCCXLIX – The Moonstone

The Moonstone

A very happy 200th Birthday, Mr. Collins.

Wilkie Collins ((8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889)

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)

Beers & Books CCCXLVII – Erna, the tree is needling

Erna, the tree is needling

Robert Gernhardt (13 December 1937 – 30 June 2006)

Beers & Books CCCXLVI – Dickens' Christmas tales

A Christmas Carol,
The Chimes,
The Cricket on the Hearth,
The Battle of Life,
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain,

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

Beers & Books CCCXLV – Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)

Beers & Books CCCXL – In the Borderland

I'd suggest:
In the Borderland

Sherko Fatah * 28 November 1964

Beers & Books CCCXXXVIII – Never let me go

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro *8 November 1954

Beers & Books CCCXXXVII – German Autumn

German Autumn (1946)

Stig Dagerman (5 October 1923 – 4 November 1954)

Beers & Books CCCXXXV – Road to Brightcity

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Máirtaín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)

Beers & Books CCCXXXIV – The Swan

The Swan

Guðbergur Bergsson (16 October 1932 – 4 September 2023)

Beers & Books CCCXXXII – George Bernard Shaw

Now that we have learned
to fly the air like birds,
swim under water like fish,
we lack one thing -
to learn to live on earth as human beings.

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 –2 November 1950)

Beers & Books CCCXXXI – The Family of Pascual Duarte

The Family of Pascual Duarte

Camilo José Cela (11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002)

Beers & Books CCCXXIX – A Message to the Irish People

"It is clear that it is not man
who has created the universe
- whether you believe in God or in gods
or deny any divine presence -
man cannot alter the laws
that govern the universe
without damaging it."

Seán MacBride ( 26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988)

Beers & Books CCCXXVIII – Bobby Sands

 Bobby Sands (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981)

I rolled over again freezing and the snow came in the window on top of my blankets. Tiocfaidh ár lá' (Our day will come), I said to myself, Tiocfaidh ár lá. [Final diary entry]

 

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 CCCXXVII – History of Ireland

A Short History of Ireland (1952)

J. C. Beckett (8 February 1912 – 12 February 1996)