March 24, 2004
The Modern World Since I basically missed this thread, I thought I'd post this link to the main page instead of burying it under 103 other comments. The Modern World is a great refernce for anyone who is into Eco, Borges or just literature in general.
Great link. Soo much good stuff to look over, so little time...
Mille Grazia...I'm reading Eco's work in preparation for a June/July holiday in Italy.
Not to be confused with This Modern Word.
Woo. I'd come across the Borges section before, thought it wonderful, and stupidly not even thought to check as to what the main site was. [Banana]tastic. What f8x said... sooooo much fun stuff... such a labyrinth of links...
Things which have caught my eye so far: The Invisible Library (a library of books which only appear in other books); their competitions to review imaginary works; and a whole bag of Philips K Dick stuff which I am about to read, enthusiastically.
I worship this site.
Word? World? Weird.
Oops... I don't know how that pesky "l" slipped in there.
Wonderful! Not only has a review of Murder in the Abbey, but also a link to a site selling the game, which I've been looking for everywhere without success. Thanks!
From here:
In the who the hell does this guy think he is category, we have Borges’s longstanding American translator cum tagalong Norman Thomas di Giovanni who diluted and undid stunning prose for what he ruled the American ear, saying the process of translating Señor B., “I liken it to cleaning a painting; you could see the bright colours and sharp outlines underneath where you couldn’t before.”
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