What are you currently reading?

[andolink]

Just started this behemoth and it's already fascinating:

[Ghost Sonata]

Rather than begin a thread devoted to it, I thought I'd ask here:  has anyone read or heard of Edward Rothstein's comparison of music and maths, Emblems of Mind: the Inner Life of Music and Mathematics (1995).  Wondering how revelatory and readable it might be.

[Karl Henning]

Rather than begin a thread devoted to it, I thought I'd ask here:  has anyone read or heard of Edward Rothstein's comparison of music and maths, Emblems of Mind: the Inner Life of Music and Mathematics (1995).  Wondering how revelatory and readable it might be.

I don't know. Curious now, myself.

[ludwigii]

AA.VV. (Enzo Restagno, Alexander Ivashkin, Elizabeth Wilson)

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EDT (Torino)

[Brian]

Books I'm bringing on my vacation:

- The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism, by Kristin Dombek
- Stoner, by John Williams
- Flashman, by George Macdonald Fraser
- Dear Life, by Alice Munro

[Florestan]

Finished recently:



(the Spanish translation of Michel Houellebecq's Submission)

Currently reading:



F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night (Romanian translation)

[Jaakko Keskinen]

[Christo]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tien-journalistieke-idealen-Johan-Snel/dp/908953993X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472680394&sr=8-1&keywords=Johan+Snel

[NikF]

Manon Lescaut.

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[André]

Finished recently:



(the Spanish translation of Michel Houellebecq's Submission)

For a moment I thought this was the romanian translation. Isn't there one ? Houellebecq is an extremely trendy and timely read author these days.

[Parsifal]

William Faulkner - The Hamlet (Dugo, Vrelo Leto (The Long, Hot Summer) in Serbian translation)

I wonder what Faulkner is like in Serbian translation. So much in Faulkner is in the reproduction of colloquial speech of different ethnic groups.

[Florestan]

For a moment I thought this was the romanian translation. Isn't there one ?

Not yet.

The novel is good, but rather naive --- for instance, it implies that the Sorbonne Islamic University would still offer courses on Huysmans and Peguy... 

It depicts extremely well the irresponsibility and stupidity of a certain type of French intellectuals, who talk about France being turned into an islamic state, and Sorbonne into an islamic university, as if it were the most natural and benign phenomenon in the world.

[SimonNZ]

Conversations between Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa on classical music and recordings.

[Drasko]

I wonder what Faulkner is like in Serbian translation. So much in Faulkner is in the reproduction of colloquial speech of different ethnic groups.

It depends a lot on quality and ambition of translator though something gets lost in translation inevitably. Various colloquial speeches can be rendered in some more or less corresponding local colloquial speeches. English and Serbian have different syntax so the rhythm and flow of original sentence can't be preserved quite the same anyhow. 

[Bogey]

So far, and absolute blast!

[Bogey]

[Ken B]

Hey Bill,the complete Continental Op comes out for Kindle later this month, $10

[Bogey]

Hey Bill,the complete Continental Op comes out for Kindle later this month, $10

Link me, Ken.  Just purchased this a few minutes before your post:



From Good Reads
3 sub-sections: the amateur, the private investigator, and the police detective
A detective fiction anthology filled with award winning short stories, information on the authors who wrote them, discussion about the history and evolution of the genre, and important literary criticism.

[Ken B]

Link me, Ken.  Just purchased this a few minutes before your post:



From Good Reads
3 sub-sections: the amateur, the private investigator, and the police detective
A detective fiction anthology filled with award winning short stories, information on the authors who wrote them, discussion about the history and evolution of the genre, and important literary criticism.

https://www.amazon.com/Continental-Op-Complete-Case-Files-ebook/dp/B01HFUTQ3E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473121693&sr=8-1&keywords=Complete+continental+op

[Bogey]

Thanks, Ken!