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21 December 2024

21 December: Barry Malzberg (1939-2024) | Arabic literature in English translation | Physics and fiction | About End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland

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       Barry Malzberg (1939-2024)

       American author Barry N. Malzberg has passed away; see, for example, the report at Locus.

       Only three of his books are under review at the complete review, but I have, and should be getting to, more:

• The Destruction of the Temple
• Gather in the Hall of the Planets (writing as: K. M. O'Donnell)
• The Remaking of Sigmund Freud

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       Arabic literature in English translation

       At The New Arab Sarah Shaffi considers The lack of Arabic literature in English translation (and why it matters)

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       Physics and fiction

       At Aeon Joshua Roebke finds: 'By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics', in Laboratories of the impossible.

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       About End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland

       There's an interesting titbit about Jay Rubin's recently released re-translation of Murakami Haruki's classic novel, End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland, in Kris Kosaka's review in The Japan Times:

Although the novel is definitely a fan favorite, this new translation was not actually intended for commercial distribution.

“When Murakami asked me to do it, he took me by surprise,” Rubin says. “But we were not thinking of a publication. He was thinking of the opening of the new Haruki Murakami Library in Waseda (University). He wanted me to produce an uncut translation that could be on file there, and I thought that was a fine idea.”

       Which helps explain why Rubin's Afterword is dated 22 October 2021, long before it was finally published.

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