-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. - Follow The Untranslated on WordPress.com
-
Recent Posts
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsArchives
Categories
Tags
- Alastalon Salissa
- Alberto Laiseca
- Alexander Goldstein
- Andrew Miller
- Antoine Volodine
- Arabic
- Argentine
- Arno Schmidt
- Austrian
- Bottom's Dream
- Brazilian
- Dante
- Days of Ziklag
- Don Quijote
- Dutch
- dystopia
- Federico Andahazi
- Fernando Iwasaki
- Finnish
- fourth dimension
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Hungarian
- Israeli
- Italian
- James Joyce
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Jules Verne
- literary blogs
- Luis Goytisolo
- Matthias Friedrich
- Michel Houellebecq
- Miguel
- Mikhail Gigolashvili
- Mikhail Shishkin
- Mircea Cărtărescu
- Neguijón
- Norwegian
- Numero Zero
- Paolo Volponi
- Patrick Süskind
- Peruvian
- Pierre Senges
- Polish
- Portuguese
- reading in foreign languages
- Remember Famagusta
- Romanian
- Russian
- S. Yizhar
- Sasha Sokolov
- science fiction
- Soumission
- Spanish
- St. Orberose
- Submission
- Surrealism
- Telluria
- Terminus Radieux
- The Rehearsals
- Tomaz de Figueiredo
- Tooth Worm
- Turkish
- Ulysses
- Umberto Eco
- Umberto Eco's new novel
- Untranslated literature
- Vladimir Sharov
- Vladimir Sorokin
- Volter Kilpi
- Zero Issue
- Zettel's Traum
Blogroll
Sites of Interest
- Archipelago Books
- Ñ (Literatura)
- Babab
- Bookworm
- Corriere della Sera (Libri)
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Deutschlandradio Kultur
- Die Welt Literatur
- Die Zeit (Literatur)
- Афиша Daily
- Прочтение
- газета.ru (Книги)
- El Cultural
- El Planeta de los Libros
- Fabula
- FAZ (Bücher)
- France Culture
- How to Learn Any Language
- Hungarian Literature Online
- Letralia
- Letras Libres
- literaturkritik.de
- New Directions
- Open Culture
- Open Letter
- Perlentaucher
- The Fictional Woods
- The Millions
- The Modern Novel
- Words without Borders
Blog Stats
- 200,243 hits
Tag Archives: Arno Schmidt
Reading Zettel’s Traum Suspended
I started reading Arno Schmidt’s legendary magnum opus about a year ago. I knew quite well that it was an enormous challenge not least because German is the weakest of my reading languages, although the “germanness” of Schmidt’s language in … Continue reading
Reading Zettel’s Traum: Week 27, pp. 337-350
Wilma talks disapprovingly about Pagenstecher’s eremitical existence, calling it “TIMON=Dasein”, invoking the rich Athenian from Shakespeare’s play Timon of Athens who ends up living in a cave after squandering his fortune on the manipulative friends and various hangers-on. Daniel is bluntly … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Zettel's Traum
Tagged Arnheim, Arno Schmidt, Gravity's Rainbow, Suggenthal, Sunkenthal, Zettel's Traum
Leave a comment
Reading Zettel’s Traum: Week 26, pp. 317-336
“The intricacy of the universe is drifting, it seems, towards a new maximum”. Thus begins the third part of Zettel’s Traum, which is called Dan’s Cottage (A Diorama). This statement could refer both to the expansion of the universe we … Continue reading
Reading Zettel’s Traum: Week 25, pp. 301-314
Pagenstecher draws the Jacobis’ attention of to the fact that Poe completely lacked planning when creating his works. What he did instead was “combinatorics” (not in the mathematical sense, of course). Also, one of Poe’s serious disadvantages was absence of any … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Zettel's Traum
Tagged al-Idrisi, Arno Schmidt, Oringa, Paul of Thebes, Zettel's Traum
Leave a comment
Reading Zettel’s Traum: Week 24, pp. 281-300
First off, an important correction: I was gravely mistaken about the meaning of the word “gall” (Galle) discussed in the previous installment of my read. As it turns out, it is a botanical term denoting an abnormal, usually ball-like excrescence on a … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Zettel's Traum
Tagged Arno Schmidt, Saint Christopher, Sinbad, Zettel's Traum
Leave a comment
Reading Zettel’s Traum: Week 23, pp. 262-280
Another metamorphosis takes place. Daniel and Paul turn into mushrooms, whereas Franziska and Wilma assume the roles of picky mushroom pickers (the pun is intended). When they are discussing different visual aspects of the mushrooms, one might get a feeling that in reality … Continue reading
Reading Zettel’s Traum: Week 22, pp. 241-261
Pagenstecher wouldn’t be Pagenstecher if he didn’t contrive to relate the furs obtained by Rodman and his companions during the trapping expedition to the furs in Zacher Masoch’s Venus in Furs. A relevant quotation about Austro-German psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing’s treatment of … Continue reading
Reading Zettel’s Traum: Week 21, pp. 221-240
When Franziska notices a scar on Daniel’s finger and asks him about it, the man recollects how he cut it. It turns out that Pagenstecher remembers the exact date of injuring his finger. The company is reunited when Daniel and Franziska meet … Continue reading
Reading Zettel’s Traum: Week 20, pp. 201-220
Etym-analysis of “cypress” is followed by a more general examination of bushes, shrubbery and trees in Poe’s works. Three types of etyms are distinguished: universal, which are common to the whole humankind; generational, which are bound to a particular time-period, and … Continue reading
Reading Zettel’s Traum: Week 19, pp. 184-200
As you might have heard, John E. Woods’ translation of Zettel’s Traum is finally available for pre-order. So, let me continue with my slow and patient reading of the book amid the cries of jubilation reverberating throughout the ranks of Arno Schmidt’s … Continue reading