Beers & Books CCCLVI – Sansibar oder der letzte Grund

Sansibar oder der letzte Grund
(Zanzibar or the last reason)
*
in English published as "Flight to Afar"

Alfred Andersch (4 February 1914 – 21 February 1980)  

Beers & Books CCCLV – Pidmohylnyj: Die Stadt

Die Stadt / The City 

Walerjan Pidmohylnyj (2 February 1901 – 3 November 1937) 

Executed Renaissance

Laughing Lhursday* – Pitch 'n' Putt

As tomorrow James Joyce will – not would! – celebrate his 142nd birthday, and as today is Laughing Lhursday, I think it is about time to once again post this glorious encounter of him and Samuel Beckett.

 James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)


* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Beers & Books CCCLIV – Quiet Existences

Quiet Existences

Hermann Bang (20 April 1857 – 29 January 1912)

Dance me to the End of Love

 

 Leonard Cohen (21 September 1934 – 7 November 2016)

Take this Waltz

Leonard Cohen (21 September 1934 – 7 November 2016)
Federico García Lorca (5 Juni 1898 – 19 August 1936)

Nectarious Night

And I'll dance with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your thighs . . .

Es wird Nacht, Señorita

 

Udo Jürgens (30 September 1934 – 21 December 2014)

The Impossible Dream

 

Bryn Terfel * 9 November 1965

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

Friday is Skyday

Very Sottish, eh? ;-)

 

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