Mine is an 1894 Tauchnitz Edition. Honestly, I think I could live for quite a while off of just the full set of these.

This seems to be long out of print in English, available only in shoddy POD editions, despite being a bestseller in its day. Interestingly, there have been recent new translations/editions in German and Spanish. Though I don't know about that Spanish cover .....

I am impressed that he also tried his hand at translation. Interesting selection, too. www.uibk.ac.at/de/brenner-a...

Erwin Schrödinger, poet ! Some of it was ... not so good ? schroedinger.literaturtirol.at/omekas/s/nac...

Since Celan's name was originally "Antschel" I've always pronounced it "Tschel-an"; having no idea what the pronunciation "in German fashion" or 'the French way' is I remain as clueless as ever how *right* or *wrong* I am.

I liked this from the Introduction:

Re-issues of Chaim Grade's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑎 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818559... and 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑔𝑢𝑛𝑎ℎ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818561... coming 4/2027 from Schocken !

In the mail: pleased also to see a Yamazaki Nao-Cola duo, from SJP Lit, 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 zandoprojects.com/books/beauti... and 𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝐿𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑎𝑡 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒'𝑠 𝑆𝑒𝑥 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 zandoprojects.com/books/dont-l... , both foreworded by @katiekitamura.bsky.social

In the mail: been holding back with the review-copy-requests as I settle in and wait for my US library to arrive (it's almost here ...), but nice to get a quartet of ... exquisite things and strange wonders, from @harvardpress.bsky.social Looking forward to all of these.

One more ..... (Despite also starring Zouzou, the movie does not seem to have done well. I assume this novelization didn't, either.)

And then there's the unusual not-quite-movie-tie in for 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑜, "A film based in part on this novel". In part ? (One of the first movies I recall seeing in a cinema & probably the first 'adult' one (I was 10); probably the 70mm print in one of NYCs (now lost) grand 1000-seat cinemas.)

I'm all for students in India (& elsewhere) encountering these authors in English translation, but maybe the proper (academic) place to do so is a different concentration ? www.educationtimes.com/article/camp... (Article title: "Why every Indian university must rethink the MA in English Literature")

Fun find in the German translation of Pauline Réage's 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑂-follow-up, 𝑅𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎̀ 𝑅𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑦: a card you were supposed to fill out upon purchase, confirming that you were over 21 (and would keep the book out of the hands of those not equipped to handle it). Surprised they didn't want it notarized.

A fair bit of ... uh, erotica as well. But, sure, good to have 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙 in both English and German. (The German volumes are only a limited selection; I do love those old Grove Press volumes, however.)

Apparently using "contemporary language" in a book is "insufficiently reverential" for some subjects in Vietnam, and reason enough to (successfully) go after everyone involved with it. www.hrw.org/news/2026/07... "Conversational dialogues", "contemporary vernacular" — how dare they !

I do appreciate the publisher making the effort to add the diacritical mark, but this looks like a grave mistake.

And then they released the film ... as 𝑃𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑟. Three guesses as to how that went for all involved .....

Case study of the perils of changing the title of a book for the paperback movie-tie-in re-issue: both the US and UK publishers jumped on board when 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙 was to be filmed as 𝐹𝑎𝑡 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒. Michael Caine ! Natalie Wood ! Stills from the film for the covers !

Maybe the Poe volume would have sold better if they had (also) named the translator on the cover 🫠?

There were only a handful of titles in this nice little author-artist-pairing 'Bücher aus der Schatztruhe'-series from the early 1970s, and I find only two of them here (wouldn't mind having the others, too). Don't know why there are two copies of the Poe/Profohs.

Addition to the German-translations-of-English-works shelf: the first edition of Tom Wolfe's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑 is also too good-looking to get rid of. (Though I could actually get a few € for that.)

Have been holding off on the book-acquisitions as I await the arrival of my US library, but couldn't resist these charity shop finds: slim little volumes of Wilhelm Busch's 𝑀𝑎𝑥 𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑧 in ancient Greek and Latin. (€2 each.)

Just as I weeded out my English translations of German works in the US I am getting rid of most of the German translations of English works here. But a few editions look worth keeping.

Easier to read in the paperback version (+ that has an editorial Afterword), but pleased that I can also explore more Kisch, with three volumes of his collected works here. (East German Aufbau Verlag ed., 1973/4.)

Better than the title they went with in later seasons.

Meanwhile, no idea how this found its way to Austria in the late 1960s.

Dad was a satirist, so there's a wide, deep, and eclectic collection of satire/*humor*/etc. here; still — this much Saphir ? (See also e.g. www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_S/...)

Decline in number of new titles being (traditionally) published in Germany is quite striking. (See also www.boersenverein.de/presse/press... )

Not her most *popular* book, to judge by how people feel about it ("the worst-by-a-mile Agatha Christie book" Molly Young judged not long ago @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/b... ), but back in the day ..... www.nytimes.com/1973/02/11/a... Ah, the days of mass-market paperbacks.

Winner of the Premio Strega announced (𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖 𝑑𝑖 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎, by Michele Mari) premiostrega.it/PS/michele-m... Gotta love a prize where they tally the votes on a blackboard .....