Tag Archives: Surrealism

Guest Post: Simon Collings on Georges Limbour

Posted on September 4, 2018 by The Untranslated

Michel Leiris, writing in Atoll in 1968, described the writer Georges Limbour as: ‘a great poet in every heart-beat of what he wrote, but a poet without fanfare or vain display’. In ‘a society less gross than ours’ Leiris went on to … Continue reading →

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Solenoid (Solenoide, Solenoid) by Mircea Cărtărescu

Posted on November 20, 2017 by The Untranslated

I have read Mircea Cărtărescu’s latest novel in Marian Ochoa de Eribe’s Spanish translation, which was kindly   provided for this review by the publishing house   Impedimenta. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that there will be an English translation any time soon – indirect evidence of that is … Continue reading →

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