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Mar 25, 2013, 08.09 PM | Source: CNBC-TV18
Sandip Sabharwal of Prabhudas Lilladher expects Nifty target of 5500 to be a bottom for the markets. In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Sabharwal says that the next trigger for the market will depend on the steps taken by the government after the Parliament session as the projects worth Rs 8 lakh crore are stuck due to various issues.
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5500 likely bottom for Nifty; hold ICICI Bk: Prabhudas
Sandip Sabharwal of Prabhudas Lilladher expects Nifty target of 5500 to be a bottom for the markets. In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Sabharwal says that the next trigger for the market will depend on the steps taken by the government after the Parliament session as the projects worth Rs 8 lakh crore are stuck due to various issues.
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In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Sandip Sabharwal of Prabhudas Lilladher says he expects Nifty target of 5500 to be a bottom for the markets.
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He feels the next trigger for the market will depend on the steps taken by the government after the Parliament session as projects worth Rs 8 lakh crore are stuck due to various regulatory issues.
Talking about stocks, Sabharwal suggests holding ICICI Bank . Among autos he is bullish on Mahindra and Mahindra ( M&M ) and Tata Motors . "If inflation will be sharper than what Reserve Bank (RBI) believes and we see a more aggressive monetary easing rather than the forecast today, companies in the largecap space like Larsen and Toubro would also be very well placed," Sabharwal told the channel.
Below is the verbatim transcript of Sandip Sabharwal's interview on CNBC-TV18
Q: Where would you see a floor for the Nifty at this point in time and what would be the next trigger that you would be watching out for, considering the diesel price hike that came through on Friday? What about the Cyprus bailout issue which is more or less a done deal?
A: The markets, after starting off well for the month of March, got hit by several events. First was the Cobra sting operation that led to fall in banks. Then we suddenly had the Cyprus issue which was unanticipated and finally the withdrawal of support by DMK. All these issues have created negativity in the market. However, if we see the forex market, rupee continues to be stable and appreciates during this entire fall of the market. This has been different over the last two-three years where the movement of the rupee and the movement of the market is typical or highly correlated. This indicates less likelihood of any big outflows from foreign investors at least in the short run. Considering that and also the fact that there are huge short positions in the markets today reflected by the extremely low put call ratio, a level of 5500 for the Nifty looks to be the bottom for the markets.
Going forward, one of the key triggers may be, after the end of the Parliament session what are the steps that the government takes to kick start the investment projects because there are Rs 8 lakh crore of projects stuck due to various issues. Is there any concrete action being taken there? Secondly, it will be the trajectory of inflation where the RBI has projected that inflation could be stable around current levels for some time.
If we do an analysis of the way global commodities have moved, food prices have moved in India and last year's base effect, over the next two-three months we should see a significant follow up in headline inflation that will create space for monetary easing. So, these two will be the major factors that would determine the movement of the market.
Q: Considering the fact that the Cyprus situation was handled more effectively than Greece, are you a buyer? It could be possible that after this one week break in the rise that the US market saw - that will resume. After all they are still putting USD 85 billion every month into the system, Japan is following suit and things are still fairly re-inflating even in the European economy. Would you be a buyer at this current juncture?
A: Obviously, the market is buyers market. It is not that we are in a bear market, globally, the bull market is on. Economies like India, Brazil and China (to some extent) are stuck due to various reasons, but eventually, they have to follow. One is a largecap side of the market where we have valuations that are at very high levels for consumer space and rest of the space looks pretty attractive. Secondly, even in the broader market, the kind of plummeting of values that we have seen is quite amazing.
Finally, every company has some equity value unless you believe that that company is eventually going to close down. To that extent, there is significant value available in the market place. Today it is more of a question of conviction because stocks, whatever you buy, have been going down and whatever you sell here, your strategy turns out to be right. So people believe that's the right strategy whereas I think there is a lot of value in the markets which will play out going forward.
Q: Talking about stocks, you said consumer discretionary is a no-no. What will you go with now if you are a buyer in the Nifty?
A: One would have to look at private sector financial institutions except for HDFC which looks slightly stretched. It has not fallen much if you take the rest of the private banking space be it ICICI Bank, Axis Bank or HDFC Bank . I think all of them have seen significant correction and seem to be well placed. Out of them, we hold ICICI Bank in our portfolios. Similarly, if we look around even in the auto space, companies like M&M, Tata Motors could benefit. We are not currently holding these companies but the sharp drop in the value of the pound will benefit it in terms of its margins. So, we will see improvement in margins for this company and that could be a positive thing for them.
If inflation will be sharper than what RBI believes and we see a more aggressive monetary easing rather than the forecast today, companies in the largecap space like Larsen and Toubro would also be very well placed.
Q: A lot is spoken about the broader markets as oppose to the fall in the Nifty that we have seen in the past couple of weeks. For example, infrastructure is quite alive today, likes of GVK Power and Infra. At this point, do you think any of them is a buying opportunity from the broader markets? In general, what would your top picks be?
A: There are a lot of stocks in this space that could be a 'buy'. It is more a question of buying for investors who are slightly patient and can hold on for the long run. The way, value of some of these stocks has plummeted is absolutely amazing. So when you talk about particular stocks, we have avoided stocks like GMR , GVK, Lanco , Hindustan Construction because they are heavily leveraged.
At some point of time, there is some equity value that will play out unless you believe that the company is going to close down. Selectively, one has to take a bet on those. I won't take names at this stage, but there could be a lot of value for people who can hold on for a year.
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knowing what's what ontologically
going beyond to reflect on wise whys
but the back-peddling of their wares wears thinnnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-53061293697807080152016-12-11T21:28:00.000-05:002017-01-01T00:27:18.069-05:00the year in reading 2016Like last year, I'm unimpressed by the year-end best-of lists. And like last year, I've read a dozen books a month (closing in on 100 novels, and 24 books of poetry so far ...) from all over the map, over half in translation, with new incursions into Catalan and Korean (though oddly none yet from Dalkey Archive), and over half by authors I hadn't previously encountered. (And like last year, a gentle reminder that non-profit literary presses deserve your tax-deductible year-end support; I'm partial to Archipelago Books myself, but then I'm on the board.) Unlike last year, I've read more books by women (about a quarter of the total), and won't be opining on the Best Translated Book Awards until the longlist comes out at the end of March. Also unlike last year, I'll select the best reads of each month, and include an honorable mention as well, even as this does not by any means exhaust what was worthwhile*:

 Jan: José Eduardo Agualusa, A General Theory of Oblivion (Daniel Hahn) [archipelago]: tight weave within the chaos of Angolan independence [MAO]
Richard Weiner, The Game for Real (Benjamin Paloff) [Two Lines]
Feb: Jack Cox, Dodge Rose [Dalkey] [3AM and (*spoilert*) a two part consideration]
Christos Ikonomou, Something Will Happen, You'll See (Karen Emmerich) [archipelago]
Mar: Sarah Howe, Loop of Jade [Chatto & Windus]: wow, some think overly precious but no allusion gratuitous or wasted, 1st debut Eliot Prize
Llorenç Villalonga, The Dolls' Room (Deborah Bonner) [Dalkey]
Apr: Ralph Cusack, Cadenza [Dalkey]: clinic on Irish yarn-spinning tangled in time and space (Sorrentino afterwords: "a stew of bewildering and impenetrable events, an inexpiicable 'cosmic joke.'" But that's life ...)
Raduan Nassar, A Cup of Rage (Stefan Tobler) [Penguin]
May: António Lobo Antunes, Fado Alexandrino (Gregory Rabassa) [Grove]: PTSD but P for Portuguese nothing Post- about it (and stress on disorder), thick interweave
Han Kang, Human Acts (Deborah Smith) [Portobello]
Jun: Ilja Leonard Pfeiffer, La Superba (Michele Hutchison) [Deep Vellum]: fantastic Genoa, expatriated, poet's pomo-novel; narrator overly bro in least successful of the subplotting, otherwise thumbs-up [MAO]
Robert Coover, The Origin of the Brunists [Grove]
Jul: Christine Brooke-Rose, Thru [Carcanet]: thru the Omnibus, which is to say thru with it, which is to say thru Thru, which I enjoyed the most of the bunch (whereas Between, least): the language semiotics of love and vice versa chiasmusically, and academonically, whodunnit recast as whoseddit, subriffing ... yes some flash and trash too but enough of it works ... Out was nouveau roman but with a difference, a difference that became clearer with Such; she knows how to work a conceit, and how to make you work for it. Between: tourism of simultaneous interpretation, traveling in style more than in substance
{goin' meta, M.A.Orthofer, The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction [Columbia] [my review]; so extra honorable mention next month ...}
Aug: Vladimir Sharov, Before and During (Oliver Ready) [Dedalus]: a bit of history with which I was unfamiliar til now and seemingly forgotten (til Sharov resurrects it) but still operative in the Russian psyche: Fyodorov and Cosmism [MAO]
Elias Khoury, Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol (Humphrey Davies) [archipelago]
Jung Young Moon, Vaseline Buddha (Yewon Jung) [Deep Vellum]
Sep: Pierre Reverdy, The Thief of Talant (Ian Seed) [Wakefield]: hybrid prose poetry, this is a keeper, if only surrealism had taken this track and knit itself as tightly I don't encounter much that demands a reread like this
Pascal Quignard, A Terrace in Rome (Douglas Penick and Charles Ré) [Wakefield]
Oct: Tomasz Różycki, Twelve Stations (Bill Johnston) [Zephyr]: convoluted comedic elegiac verse spanning 20c Poland from east to west and in retrograde [TQC oeuvreview]
Maja Haderlap, Angel of Oblivion (Tess Davis) [archipelago]
Nov: Iván Sándor, Legacy (Tim Wilkinson) [Peter Owen]: retracing the persisting end of 1944 Budapest, plumbing the murky depths of the past, memory, the unconscious ... and how the story comes together, or apart
Sergei Lebedev, Oblivion (Antonina W. Bouis) [New Vessel]
Dec: TBD Eliot Weinberger, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: with more ways [NDP]: a must-read on poetry in translation (and each in isolation) [MAO]
Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems (Roger L. Conover, ed) [FSG]: wow! modernism that Modernism wasn't ready for
(and special mention for John Kerrigan, Shakespeare's Binding Language [Oxford]: oaths & vows, Empsonically)

 * (a full rendering of my reading in the usual unusual place) nnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-21909481444961126722016-11-11T13:53:00.000-05:002016-11-12T11:24:37.899-05:00lighghtparticular or wavey
the answers don't matter when
the question's not even wrong
ontology recapitulates
in all probability
it's all the way down
all the way down
shut up and copenhagennnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-55524525945680545932016-09-06T19:46:00.000-04:002016-09-06T19:46:07.611-04:00contortionsthink on your feet and stand on your head
dig in your heels to furrow your brow
sit on your hands but stay on your toes
lead with your chin when armed to the teeth
lending an ear while holding your tongue
trust in your gut it's right on the nose
nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-64172068727698492132016-07-30T00:47:00.001-04:002016-07-31T02:25:58.378-04:00poetry in commotionthe momentum of mass transit
carries you to the wrong platform
to make an impossible connection
in the busy abandoned station
everybody someplace else
in packed forsaken corridors
or on crowded vacant stairs

avoid eye contact it's irritating
even the blind vagrant feels your gaze
and rattles his anthora cup in reply
slip in the swipe card with one last ride

31.7 EDIT: anthora replaces greek-keyed thx Sharon!nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-23848011734130474862016-07-09T23:26:00.000-04:002016-09-11T21:06:25.709-04:00Throwaway lines (slow return)Every couple of years I collect, or recollect, some of the rubbish I've uttered, mainly at The Fictional Woods lit-chat, and fashion a blog post out of it. Yes, we recycle!

 Each time I run across Heraclitus' 91st fragment it reads differently.

I don't get why some people obsess over "making a difference". Do the math: it's only subtraction.

When they say 'do the math', they always mean arithmetic, never differential topology.

Live each day as though it were your last. You'll be right some time, but then again so's a stopped clock.

In battling ambivalence, I'm not sure who should win.

I'm enjoying my anhedonia.

Confessional poetry isn't worth the price of admission.

Got dem Guattari blues / Après moi, le Deleuze

I'm an axiomatic pragmatist: first principles are the fundamental problem.

Famous last words: "Take this down. 'Kill the moralists. It's the right thing to do.'" —Siger of Brabant

Entire sociopsychologies have been built upon the foundation of man's inability to bear children; how come no parallel structure has been erected on man's inability to fake orgasms?

Just because humans have opposable thumbs, should we hold it against them?

What's the plural of hapax legomenon again?

What if I faked having Impostor Syndrome and they found out?

 (previous iterations: 2010, 2012, 2014) nnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-8652348748819509702016-07-05T19:11:00.001-04:002016-07-05T22:21:39.311-04:00Complete Review reviewM.A.Orthofer has long been an underappreciated chronicler of underappreciated fiction, foreign and otherwise, at the complete review, started in 1999 to provide reviews (his own, graded, with copious links to others'), and augmented in 2002 by the Literary Saloon, with news on publishing, prizes, and much else besides. It's been my go-to site for well over a decade, a catholic and reliable guide (my own assessments generally differ by no more than a plus or minus from his letter grades), and so I was skeptical that I might derive further benefit from his latest offering, The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction [Columbia Univ Press]. Thankfully, I was wrong to doubt of the benefit—while aimed at those less familiar than myself with foreign fiction, its organization is both comprehensive and comprehensible, leaving little in the way of gaps. It is a reader's guide to post-WWII novels, a survey structured geographically by country, primarily dealing with 'literary fiction' but not neglecting 'genre' writing (or the blurring between them), giving each nation's headliners due attention (though rarely more than a page) and making mention and more of other noteworthies, necessarily broad-brush but more than cursory. It should be said that this is presented from a Western anglophonic perspective (though some as-yet untranslated works are mentioned) and that the segmentation somewhat overweights national culture—a boon for those who want to explore on that basis, but an impediment to elaborating upon deep cross-cultural strands (and for those wanting a more personal take there's always Ann Morgan, bordering on travelogue; cf Latterly). In some respects, the novel form, while capacious, is a western cultural imposition, and the paucity of examples in some regions is due to factors beyond authoritarian or totalitarian restraint, lack of infrastruture, or embedded oral tradition (and my interest is piqued more by incorporation of local forms than adaptation of local color). The selection of authors is generous (a cast of thousands!) and up-to-date (though of course a snap-shot of a moving target that's already moved on: e.g., Northwestern University's Writings from an Unbound Europe series is cited in appendix but was discontinued last year), and little is omitted (I was surprised that Robert van Gulik wasn't mentioned in reference to Chinese detective fiction, though that was originally before the scope of this book) (mere quibbles, but the nature of the project invites such sport). In sum, yes this scratches the surface, more than just barely, and it's a huge surface, and man is it itchy, and his sharp thumbnail sketches provide some relief: as his editorial policy at the site puts it: "These are things we try to do here at the complete review, but we only manage to scratch the surface. ¶ Scratch deeper." nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-20521896787649884402016-06-08T23:14:00.000-04:002016-06-08T23:14:34.548-04:00legenda cumulus cartography
losing resolution as we draw close
assuming depths and ambiguities
wispy fringes feathering into blue
off fulgent cotton continents

 a puddle archipelago
scattered cloud-cast shadows darkly flashing
glimpses of an inverted firmament
a bathing wren disrupts its bit of sky
sprays a shower of liquid sparks

 on our maps, why are the waters azure?
and what if they were black, reflecting stars?nnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-57088452112060948832016-05-08T17:43:00.000-04:002016-05-08T21:34:55.730-04:00BTBA afterthoughtsSo Yuri Herrera and Lisa Dillman won the Best Translated Book Award for fiction, and I think rightfully so, as much as I would have liked to see Chad Post's Open Letter see some payback for how much he/they have paid it forward (or, for that matter, Archipelago Books' entry, seeing as how the awards ceremony was held at The Folly, coincidentally but not oracularly the title of another of last year's releases, though ineligible since it's the first untranslated book we've done since 2007). It's also fitting that a book originating in Mexico won on the eve of Cinco de Mayo, in a year that has seen much more writing making its way north (and heavily featured in PEN World Voices) (as for the other Mexican entry, Luiselli's, I thought the story less compelling than the backstory). I'm glad I predicted that it was among the front-runners in prior posts, but it's time to otherwise assess my guesses retrospectively (afterthoughts sounds so much better than post-mortem, dontcha think?).

 While I tried to be objective in setting odds, and to adjust for ancillary factors, trying to separate merit from taste is as silly as trying to peer inside the judges' minds (now a corps that changes each year; and no I don't envy them their task). The judges declined to select honorable mentions this time around, but there were indications that stuff I had down in the middle of the pack were more serious contenders (and so some of my favorites less so). It was a strong and balanced field, any of which will reward attention, but the winner, as in past years, moreso. And so I'm getting started on next year's contenders: after the ceremony, the first book I picked up down the street at McNally-Jackson was Herrera's (and Dillman's) The Transmigration of Bodies. And though I hold the awards in high regard, going forward, I intend to be posting more on non-BTBA stuff than was the case this past year. Stay tuned.

 PS for more on Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World, see Complete-Review (with copious review links) and Aaron Bady's take.nnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-30114564405925675042016-04-23T22:34:00.000-04:002016-04-23T23:24:25.973-04:00BTBA shortlist long-takeAttention Conservation Notice: What, you were expecting Nabokov? Shakespeare? Cervantes?

 The fiction shortlist for the eighth Best Translated Book Award (not counting the poll-voted 2008 award) was announced last Tuesday; the winner will be announced 7PM Wednesday, May 4, at The Folly in NYC (and online at TheMillions). While the winner is important, it's the shortlist that most captures my attention, as an unrivalled resource for my reading list: I've read over half of past shortlists, including all the winners (all helpfully compiled in one place), and half of the current one. First things first: the shortlist, reordered by what I consider the chances of taking the prize, even with odds (no sorry I'm not running a book), linked to 3%'s summary arguments (cf MAO) (asterisks mark what I've read; for what I haven't, I rely on the backchatter):
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel (Bulgaria, Open Letter) * [3-1]
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (Mexico, And Other Stories) * [4-1]
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson (Brazil, New Directions) * [5-1]
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn (Angola, Archipelago Books) [8-1] *
Murder Most Serene by Gabrielle Wittkop, translated from the French by Louise Rogers Lalaurie (France, Wakefield Press) [10-1]
War, So Much War by Mercè Rodoreda, translated from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent (Spain, Open Letter) * [15-1]
Moods by Yoel Hoffmann, translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole (Israel, New Directions) [25-1]
Arvida by Samuel Archibald, translated from the French by Donald Winkler (Canada, Biblioasis) [30-1]
 The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Italy, Europa Editions) [40-1]
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Mexico, Coffee House Press) [50-1]
Perhaps I overly discount the last two as being overly popular (many have said last year's Luiselli was better), but shuffling around the last half of the list shouldn't matter much. More to the point, it's great to see first-time appearances by publishers And Other Stories, Wakefield Press, and Biblioasis, and Open Letter's first double-billing.

 But this is a good opportunity to look back on all the shortlists, to see how different publishers have fared. Of the 80 titles chosen so far, multiple entrants account for more than half:
New Directions: 13 (and 2 winners, +1 in poetry)
 Archipelago: 12 (ditto) (but the only press that's made every shortlist) *
Open Letter: 7
Dalkey Archive: 6
NYRB: 6 (1 winner)
On the other side of the ledger, university presses have only made 6 appearances, half by Yale (which won last year), and the major houses are conspicuous by their absence (FSG made its first and only appearance the first time round). And I'm surprised Graywolf hasn't made the cut. But I expect to see more in coming years from some one-timers (Other Press, And Other Stories, Seagull) and from up-and-comers like Deep Vellum and Two Lines.

 * Declaimer: (that's right, de- not dis-). I serve on the Board for Archipelago, and it's gratifying to see the press so well regarded despite scant resources. You can help ensure Archipelago's continued and deserved success. And yes, I've read over half that list too.nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-5249464251534430562016-03-29T13:47:00.001-04:002016-03-29T18:58:00.270-04:00BTBA longlist short-takesSo the Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist has been announced. (So too the poetry longlist.) My publisher-based prognostication not too shabby (cf MAO's) (biggest miss was the top of my list Tabucchi), but some surprises on top of that: yes multiple listings for New Directions (4) (half of which I hadn't even considered); Open Letter with 3 titles (kudos! I've yet to read the Neuman) (and congrats to Graywolf and Deep Vellum, only other multiples with 2 apiece); different choices for Deep Vellum (which I'd read) and Wakefield (which I hadn't). But the biggest surprise is that Dalkey Archive got skunked; so too Yale/Margellos, Seagull, and Pushkin Press, but Dalkey had more eligible literary titles than anyone else. All in all, about a third of the longlist under my radar, til now.

 Given limited intereligibility, there's a fair bit of overlap with the IFFP Man Booker Int'l longlist: Agualusa, Ferrante, Lianke, Mujila (and a different [ie the wrong] Kurniawan). Winnowing this down to a 10-title shortlist (April 19; winner May 4 @ The Folly, NYC) is a task I don't envy; I think Gospodinov, Herrera, and either Lispector or Kurniawan or both have the inside track, but I've been wrong before, and I've more reading to do before being wrong again.

 (PS while my attention was diverted, M&G award discussion forums moved on to Goodreads)nnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-66161441209453153972016-03-08T16:37:00.000-05:002016-03-08T16:37:19.006-05:00crepuscularthe sun sets in purple yellow cloud bruise
above a contrail cuts a fresh scar
below the backlit trees grow vague

 clouds blacken against the ashen horizon
the evening star rides the rising wind
a porchlight palpitates through branchesnnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-84499624314274369262016-03-05T23:00:00.001-05:002016-03-06T00:15:27.579-05:00an update of sortsThe end of the month brings the longlist for the Best Translated Book Award, and I've now got 40 of the eligibles under my belt (~30% of my reading overall), including those mentioned as not yet read in the middle of my prior post (except towards list's end), without substantively changing my assessment.

 What I can add is:
Wakefield Press: Unica Zürn, The Trumpets of Jericho (Christina Svendsen), though only as a longlist longshot;
and José Eduardo Agualusa, A General Theory of Oblivion (Daniel Hahn) [Archipelago] also has a shot (cf TQC)

 I should mention that, like Zambra's My Documents, Anne Garréta's Sphinx [Deep Vellum] has received much praise (though not so much from me, more than faint, less than swoon) (and I found Chudori's Home too melodidactic); but it's not my place to second-guess. Besides, there's so much I haven't read (just f'rinstance Makine via Graywolf) (or don't intend to: Daoud via Other, Knausgaard via Archipelago) that it's short odds the longlist will lengthen my reading list.
 (for more speculation, see The Mookse and the Gripes forum)nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-46189320561419981222015-12-13T18:13:00.000-05:002016-03-05T23:01:42.565-05:00the year in readingIt's not over yet, but far enough along to sum up some. Rather than adding to all the 'best of' lists, which weren't all that good this time around, I'll embellish on themes that emerged in the course of the year.

 I feel I've finally got a good grounding in Argentinian literature, beyond Borges and Cortázar, and Bioy Casares and Sábato and Arlt, and Puig and Piglia and Aira and (a bit of) Chejfec. I've already raved about Marechal; other works added to the fold include:
Juan José Saer, La Grande (Steve Dolph) [Open Letter]
Pedro Mairal, The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra (Nick Caistor) [New Vessel]
Silvina Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces (Daniel Balderston) [nyrb]
Silvina Ocampo: Selected and Translated (Jason Weiss) [nyrb/poets]
Alan Pauls, A History of Money (Ellie Robins) [Melville House]
Juan Filloy, Caterva (Brendan Riley) [Dalkey]
Juan José Saer, The One Before (Roanne L. Kantor) [Open Letter]
Haroldo Conti, Southeaster (Jon Lindsay Miles) [& other stories]
Yes, I'd read Filloy (Op Oloop) and Saer (The Witness and Scars) before, but this year's are stand-outs (as was Ocampo's poetry, but all were well worthwhile). And it's not like there's not more: Andrés Neuman, for one ... in any case, it's wonderful how much more has been made available lately.

 But my reading's been all over the map this year, nearly 3/4 of it in translation. Beyond Argentina, I made inroads into South Africa (with which it rhymes) and Mexico, as more has become available thence too (but not only; f'rinstance I've yet to encroach upon Arabic or Korean lit). As for individual authors, I got caught up with (or in) Pinget (thx Red Dust! and Barbara Wright), Tabucchi, and Modiano. And poetry ... the nyrb/poets series, German monuments (Benn, Bachmann, Celan), French provinces (Tappy, du Bouchet, Bonnefoy) ... mo' Oulipo (Forte, Garréta, Le Tellier, Bury) ...

 Of the this year's Best Translated Book Award-eligible englishings (or should that be americanings?), I've 25 30 under my belt (plus poetry), and I'll choose one per publisher for shortlist projection (with increasing uncertainty and longerlisting in descent):
Archipelago Books: Antonio Tabucchi Tristano Dies: A Life (Elizabeth Harris)
& other stories: Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (Lisa Dillman)
Open Letter: Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow (Angela Rodel)
New Directions: Clarice Lispector, Complete Stories (Katrina Dodson)
 [but may add another, between Aira shorts, Castellanos Moya, and Kurniawan]
Dalkey Archive: Juan Filloy, Caterva (Brendan Riley)
Two Lines: Wolfgang Hilbig, The Sleep of the Righteous (Isabel Fargo Cole)
[still have to pick up Richard Weiner, The Game for Real Benjamin Paloff)]
Seagull: Wolfgang Hilbig, 'I' (Isabel Fargo Cole)
Graywolf: Daniel Sada, One Out of Two (Katherine Silver) [in hand not yet read]
Yale/Margellos: Patrick Modiano, After the Circus (Mark Polizzotti) [still to buy, on MAO's say-so; only eligible Y/M I've read is Máirtín Ó Cadhain, The Dirty Dust (Cré na Cille)) (Alan Titley)]
Deep Vellum: Sergio Pitol, The Art of Flight (George Henson)
[tough call, I've read half their list so far, and Piglia or Shishkin or the in hand not yet read Chudori might be chosen]
Pushkin Press: Mikhail Elizarov, The Librarian (Andrew Bromfield) still to buy
AmazonCrossing: Bae Suah, Nowhere to Be Found (Sora Kim-Russell), on the to-buy list, wonder where I'll get it ... see MAO and review links therein.
[AC mostly translates genre but throws a bit'o'lit into the mix, augmenting rather than competing; in fact, Amazon funds the BTBA prizes and provides grants to non-profits: not so much a drop in the bucket as in the thimble.]
Braziller: Juan Villoro, The Guilty (Kimi Traube)
Coffee House: Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth (Christina MacSweeney) [I've only read Faces in the Crowd]
and as for the not my cuppa:
Europa Editions: Elena Ferrante, The Story of a Lost Child (Ann Goldstein)
McSweeney's: Alejandro Zambra, My Documents (Megan McDowell) has its advocates; I'm not among them.
(and I just don't know about Knopf's Pamuk or FSG's Ulitskaya or and so on ...)

 It being that time of year, the season of giving, given that half of the publishers listed above are non-profits that depend upon donor support, for those US-based (Archipelago, Coffee House, Dalkey Archive, Deep Vellum, Graywolf, Open Letter, Two Lines) I encourage your tax-deductible contributions, so that they can translate those bucks into books.

 Other high points not covered above I'd like to mention and recommend:
Gabriel Josipovici, Hotel Andromeda [Carcanet]
William Golding, The Spire [Harcourt]
Percival Everett, Erasure [Graywolf]
The Tale of the Heike (Royall Tyler) [Viking]
Jenny Erpenbeck, The End of Days (Susan Bernofsky) [New Directions]
Erlom Akhvlediani, Vano and Niko (Mikheil Kakabadze) [Dalkey Archive]
Josep Pla, Life Embitters (Peter Bush) [Archipelago]
Christian Bök, The Xenotext: Book I [Coach House]
S.J. Naudé, The Alphabet of Birds (S.J.Naudé) [& other stories]
(meant to say, not the only ones ... see here for a fuller rendering, including review links and such)nnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-59191197478995717042015-12-07T19:38:00.000-05:002015-12-07T19:38:41.556-05:00barter vs banterWhen it comes to the question of what money is, the answer takes the form
1) a medium of exchange,
2) a store of value,
3) a unit/measure (that is, standard) of account,
though fresh-water economics generally gives precedence to the first item.

 So why hasn't language been similarly split into
1) a medium of communication,
2) a store of meaning,
3) a standard of representation,
with the first item taking precedence among some of the hard-core? (Linguistics takes a tripartite division into form, content [semantics], and context [pragmatics], but it's not the same thing.)

 And of course written language traces its roots to accountancy ... I could go on with other overlaps, conceptual and otherwise, but will leave all that unpaid/unsaid.

 (yeah I'm still here, just all over the place, service will resume with 2015 reading in review shortly.) nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-29442542717083892832015-07-29T00:37:00.000-04:002015-07-29T00:51:36.739-04:00decaversarySo I've been at this thing off and on, lately more off than on, for ten years. In that span I've read nearly a thousand books, and for a long time recorded first impressions here for my own benefit but stopped when it became more hindrance than help (last year's monologging just displaced litchatboard dialogging since resumed). I've cast a wide net, and in particular got caught up with Latin American (esp Argentinean) and Eastern European literature (as translations have burgeoned), and filled many gaps in my poetry reading while creating some in The Bookshelf of Good Intentions. Not that I'll ever be well-read, not that that is the object; study is its own reward, with a bonus of better understanding (not to say knowledge), and of not knowing where it may lead, as the field may deepen but never narrows, as literature creates its own context even as it operates within a larger one, moreso than other arts. (Something similar pertains in mathematics.)

 So what is it that I study? And why the slant towards foreign literature? Yes, there's history, and culture, but that's more ground than figure for me. What piques my interest is two-fold: the art of representation through language (which is rich enough to carry over in literary translation), and the situation of the individual apprehending his/her culture or society, whether at large or in detail (not only the author but also the intended reader). Between the two, without immersion in either the language or cultural/societal matrix, I take away (or better: incorporate, assimilate) more than I'd be able to otherwise: the different forms empathy takes, perspectives askew from those I'm familiar or comfortable with, just f'rinstance. I may not always get it, but I always get something out of it. And it's those little somethings I've tried to share here, and by formulating those somethings to draw more out of them for myself.

 There are plenty of reasons for reading (or blogging), and plenty of ways to do it; I'm not saying that my rationale, or method, is better than others (even if I'm pretty good at rationalization and methodization), just that it works for me. For that matter, my idea of study differs from most, self-directed, more serendipitous than systematic; in this I've followed not so much a calling as resonances (and have described myself as a strict interdisciplinarian). Despite which, I've been able to lay claim to expertise in some areas (eg APL programming, financial markets: made for a nondeadening way to make a living) and to something beyond lay knowledge in many others.

 Enough of explaining myself (even if only to myself). This being a bloggiversary ... I've catalogued past work before, on Nabokov and others; I'll add to the list homages to imitations of riffs on Frost, Dickinson, WCWilliams & Lewis Carroll ... and poems and prose I have no one to blame for but myself. And a bit of lit crit on spec, blue-skying on Tlön. nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-20033686732599955662015-06-02T00:21:00.001-04:002015-06-02T00:26:44.071-04:00Reading music: scattered notesAt times certain themes emerge in my reading matter; this time, music was the keynote, or more properly, the incorporation of musical form into the writing, playing on Walter Pater's old saw on art's aspirations. All of the following required a slower tempo than I'm used to, but with commensurate reward.

 The theme was introduced by Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina, though I'd picked it up more as another instance of a poet's novel; she'd also done opera libretti, and takes opera as structure and tone for the three-part narrative (with three principal parts), while permutational elements of duodecaphony are compositionally brought in. Other (Viennese) influences include Wittgenstein (Ludwig not Paul: of what we cannot sing we must be silent), and Freud, not to mention the novelists. Mark Anderson contributes a voluble valuable afterword, "Death Arias in Vienna", situating all this and more (but alas not online). Philip Boehm's translation seems a bit flat, but I suspect it's a matter of trade-offs. [John Taylor in Context]

 Curiously, A.G. Porta overlaps some of the same territory in The No World Concerto (translated by Darren Koolman and Rhett McNeil), especially Schoenberg and Wittgenstein. Again it wasn't so much the music that prompted me as his early collaboration with Roberto Bolaño (Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joyce (Advice from a disciple of Morrison to a fan of Joyce), 1984 Premio Ámbito Literario winner; didn't publish on his own til 1999 with Braudel por (by) Braudel). No World in turn won the 2005 Premio Café Gijón and is the first to be englished. So ... two mirrors bumping into each other walking down the road ... or,

As noted in the review linked below, it is indeed "vulnerable to the line of attack James Wood mounted against Paul Auster in a 2009 New Yorker takedown: 'Because nothing is persuasively assembled, the inevitable postmodern disassembly leaves one largely untouched . . . Presence fails to turn into significant absence, because presence was not present enough.'"; and the Austerizing is annoying (to nonfans like yrs truly; fans will eat it up) but mitigated (but only mitigated) by relevance to the formal conceits (the Tractatus as well as dodecacaphony [tho warped rather than wrapped]). (Incidentally, the review is wrong in its finding that "the only full proper name I found in the novel was that of Leon Kowalski"; the other is Mrs. Oedipa Maas.) (and my lukecoldness may be attributable to having recently read Malina, better where there's overlap, but unfair comparison). [Eric Lundgren in TQC; interview in Bomb]

 Finally, a novel that attracted specifically because of the music: Kirsty Gunn's The Big Music, on the Highland bagpipes and the pibrach (since I can't spell piobaireachd), analogue to the concerto. The story also blends elements of genealogy, history, and pedagogy (the last would put me off were it not stylistically justified; that said, the authorial instrusive asterisks make explicit much of what is clear implicitly, and so annoys). The review below covers the ground, but I'll note that one note is never sounded (until the last appendix). [Andrea Scrima in TQC; interview]

 (I'm also dipping into Songbook: The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba [George Hochfield & Leonard Nathan], but the early stuff loses its music in translation ...)nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-20084586560252075482015-03-14T22:49:00.000-04:002015-03-17T09:14:31.366-04:00BTBAI've read more of the fiction eligible for the Best Translated Book Award than in prior years, comprising a larger proportion of my reading (about a quarter), though only a small fraction of the candidates, but I think larger among the viable ones. For opinions that count, there's a more complete listing of the judges' ruminations than I linked last post ( though there's the occasional mistagged stray), and a dedicated message board for speculation. But here you'll have mine, as final as I can make it prior to the April 7 longlist announcement.

 Those that should make the 10-title shortlist (should both in my estimation and, I expect, in the judges'):
Juan José Saer, La Grande (Steve Dolph) [Open Letter]
Andrei Bitov, The Symmetry Teacher (Polly Gannon) [FSG]
Leopoldo Marechal, Adam Buenosayres (Norman Cheadle) [McGill-Queen's Uni]

 Those that I would shortlist, that should at least make the judges' 25-title longlist:
Bohumil Hrabal, Harlequin's Millions (Stacey Knecht) [Archipelago]
Sergei Dovlatov, Pushkin Hills (Katherine Dovlatov) [Counterpoint]
Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences (Mark Polizzotti) [Yale/Margellos]
Can Xue, The Last Lover (Annelise Finegan Wasmoen) [Yale/Margellos]
Drago Jančar, The Tree with No Name (Michael Biggins) [Dalkey]

 Those that should make the longlist (should see above) and might be shortlisted:
Mikhail Shishkin, The Light and the Dark (Andrew Bromfield) [Quercus]
Wilma Stockenström, The Expedition to the Baobob Tree (J.M Coetzee) [Archipelago]
Hilda Hilst, With My Dog-Eyes (Adam Morris) [Melville House]
Éric Chevillard, The Author and Me (Jordan Stump) [Dalkey]
Julio Cortázar, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia (David Kurnick) [Semiotext(e)]
Edouard Levé, Works (Jan Steyn) [Dalkey]
Carlos Labbé, Navidad & Matanza (Will Vanderhyden) [Open Letter]

 Those that I would longlist that may not make the judges' cut:
César Aira, Conversations (Katherine Silver) [NDP]
Roberto Bolaño, A Little Lumpen Novelita (Natasha Wimmer) [New Directions]
Clemens J. Setz, Indigo (Ross Benjamin) [Norton/Liveright]
Pierre Michon, Winter Mythologies and Abbots (Ann Jefferson) [Yale/Margellos]
Sait Faik Abasiyanik, A Useless Man: selected stories (Maureen Freely & Alexander Dawe) [Archipelago]

 The rest within the ambit of my reading (all of which I'm glad to have read, lest relegation seem dismissive), which the judges may well dip into:
Alberto Savinio, Signor Dido (Richard Pevear) [Counterpoint]
Georges Perec, I Remember (Philip Terry, David Bellos) [Godine]
Frankétienne, Ready to Burst (Kaiama L. Glover) [Archipelago]
Milena Michiko Flašar, I Called Him Necktie (Sheila Dickie) [New Vessel]
Hugo Ball, Flametti or The Dandyism of the Poor (Catherine Schelbert) [Wakefield]
Vladimir Lorchenkov, The Good Life Elsewhere (Ross Ufberg) [New Vessel]
Scholastique Mukasonga, Our Lady of the Nile (Melanie Mauthner) [Archipelago]
Jon Fosse, Melancholy II (Eric Dickens) [Dalkey]
Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Severina (Chris Andrews) [Yale/Margellos]
Carmen Boullosa, Texas: The Great Theft (Samantha Schnee) [Deep Vellum]
(I could be wrong: that last'un won the Typographical Translation Award ...)

 And then there's the one that got away, unread:
Arno Schmidt, Bottom's Dream (John E. Woods) [Dalkey]
but only because it hasn't come out yet. Maybe next year ...

 And finally, the only eligible poetry I've read, which should make the shortlist:
José-Flores Tappy, Sheds/Hangars: Collected Poems 1983-2013 (John Taylor) [bitter oleander]

 No doubt I've missed some worthy candidates, which will be rectified by the longlist announcement; I'm grateful to the BTBA (and prime mover Chad Post) for past guidance (best among the awards, and transparently at that), and for more generally raising the profile of translated literature, making it easier to find and to sort out. (And while I'm being appreciative, thanks too to fiction judge Michael A. Orthofer, who's reviewed as much in translation on his site as the cumulative BTBA-eligible fiction; there's only so much one man can do, and he does so much more.) nnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-15427796655655710862015-02-26T15:45:00.000-05:002015-02-27T15:31:00.937-05:00Adam BuenosayresI've been catching up with a lot of the BTBA contenders, and still mean to sort them all out, but Leopoldo Marechal's Adam Buenosayres (Norman Cheadle) [McGill-Queens] calls for separate consideration, not just as a likely shortlister. (Not a review; for that, Michael Orthofer's your go to guy for that.)

 A satirical tour de farce, the novel is a strange hybrid, at once foundational and anomalous to Argentinian (and Latin American) literary tradition. Heavy on pastiche and parody, it leans on both Joyce (see below) and Dante (both exiles, I note; Marechal's exile from Argentinian culture was internal, for Peronist leanings), in the latter's case on Vita Nuova (Beatricial idealization, esp in Book VI, "The Blue Notebook") and Inferno (Book VII, "Journey in the Dark City of Cacodelphia"), though more in its score-settling aspects; Cervantes is also prominently in the mix. It is no less sparing of the theological or metaphysical, but no less chauvinistic as it takes Swift kicks at the pretentions of 1920's Argentina. The eponymous hero not only traverses Buenos Aires but in some ways embodies it (as do his circle, as too the Dantean circles).

 Reception and influence: From Stephen Dedalus in Argentina, Richard Canning [TLS $ub only sorry]:
"Abundantly spattered with manure." Thus Eduardo González Lanuza's splenetic review of Leopoldo Marechal's first novel, which appeared in the Argentinian journal Sur in 1949. Lanuza acknowledged that Marechal had been deeply influenced by James Joyce's experimentation in Ulysses, but he dismissed Adán Buenosayres as derivative and disrespectful of the city in which it was set. Julio Cortázar was rather more impressed, hailing the novel as "an extraordinary event in Argentine literature", even if he initially found it "incoherent" [see here]. Cortázar was most drawn to Marechal's formal daring – an experimentation that informed his own writing style in novels such as Rayuela (1963; Hopscotch). It was a fellow Latin American Joycean, the Cuban writer José Lezama Lima, who first insisted on the connection between Adán Buenosayres and Rayuela. His own magnum opus, Paradiso (1966), adopts a similarly subversive approach to narrative orderliness and dialogic effect, this time applying it to his own city, Havana.
And as Cheadle points out in his introduction, so too the praises heaped up by Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso, Ricardo Piglia, Ernesto Sábato, Augusto Roa Bastos ...

Canning again (til fair use runs out):
As Norman Cheadle's lucid introduction points out, though the structure of Adam Buenosayres also invites comparison with Ulysses – its length; its mapping of plot across just three days; its episodic chapters; its self-conscious plurality of narrative modes; its textual jokes, puns and self-referentiality – in many ways the closer textual source remains A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. For Buenosayres, like Stephen Dedalus, is a writer, and this novel, like Joyce's, is not only a Bildungsroman but a Künstlerroman [ntm a Roman à clef, with Xul Solar figuring prominently (and taking it in good humor, unlike Borges)]. The epic sense of disproportion characteristic of Marechal's prose reflects just as much the awesome fear and opportunity felt by the young artist as the effects of rapid social transformation in the Argentinian capital immediately after the First World War. This was the age of Martinfierrismo, a literary renaissance focused on the journal Martin Fierro, which was promoted through the capital's tertulias or literary salons, attended by a crowd of native writers, artists and thinkers, some lately having sailed back from Europe. [...] Marechal's politics moved consistently away from liberalism, and by 1946 he was a functionary in what Borges termed the "Nazi-Fascist-Peronist dictatorship". He was also a Catholic nationalist, and a key distinction between Adam Buenosayres and Ulysses relates to a paradoxical, even duplicitous element both in Adam's character – based on that of the young Marechal [quoting his poetry] – and in the guiding presence of his author: aesthetic radicalism coupled with radical sociopolitical conservatism. [...] The internationalist horizons of the characters in Adam Buenosayres tend to be undermined not just by obdurate local forces of self-interest, but also by an underlying scepticism or contempt towards an ongoing history of European influence [...]

 There's more to it than that, the sharp social satire f'rinstance (portrait of the society as a young country), and given its scope its oddness makes for some unevenness (and it wears its prejudices on its sleeves). But it's essential reading for a fuller picture of Argentinian literature, spinning gold out of the dross of what preceded it, and setting its course for the second half of the century.

 For notes on my other reading, now and in future, see my postings over to TheFictionalWoods.nnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-62133720134154656902015-01-19T20:15:00.002-05:002015-01-19T20:15:21.291-05:00ex temporeThe past is a foreign country; its armies are massing on the border. The future is staging a strategic withdrawal, leaving little forage behind. In between, we get by moment to moment, occupying a thin slice of territory at once coveted and forsaken. Trapped in a never-ending now, we evade for a time the inexorable advance of what was and, so long as we can, follow an ever-receding what will be, gleaning what we may from what is. And though we try to steer to where we might find some respite, more often than not we are simply carried by the current. nnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-3471129058784987232014-12-31T15:49:00.002-05:002014-12-31T15:50:37.368-05:00December readsCatching up on this year's prose (asterisks mark the BTBA-eligible) and less recent poesy ...

 Philippe Jaccottet, And, Nonetheless: Selected Prose and Poetry 1990-2009 (John Taylor) [Chelsea]: essayistic capture of the light and transient color of moments of eternity
* Patrick Modiano, Suspended Sentences (Mark Polizzotti) [Yale/Margellos]: notes from the margins and erasures of Paris
* Pierre Michon, Winter Mythologies and Abbots (Ann Jefferson) [Yale/Margellos]: mainly medieval historical byways
* Can Xue, The Last Lover (Annelise Finegan Wasmoen) [Yale/Margellos]: gnomic intersubjectivities of dreams and loves oddly related
Witold Gombrowicz, Trans-Atlantyk (Danuta Burchardt) [Yale/Margellos]: frenzied farce as only Gombrowicz can ... reread, sort of; bills itself as An Alternate Translation, and indeed complements rather than supersedes the prior (perhaps overexuberant) attempt
* Hugo Ball, Flametti or The Dandyism of the Poor (Catherine Schelbert) [Wakefield]: vaudevillians, more proto-Brechtian than Dadaesque, from the initiator of the Cabaret Voltaire
* Vladimir Lorchenkov, The Good Life Elsewhere (Ross Ufberg) [New Vessel]: dark light comedy on the Assumption of Italy [MAO]
* Scholastique Mukasonga, Our Lady of the Nile (Melanie Mauthner) [archipelago]: Rwandan lycée as pococosm [MAO]
Christian Bök, Eunoia [Coach House]: Oulipo tributary, exercising vowels (after Rimbaud, Perec)

 ... and wishing all a best of 2015.nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-44635694314540585852014-12-18T21:27:00.000-05:002014-12-18T21:27:12.813-05:00Best of 2014Despite a nearly month-long hiatus (now thankfully ended), I've managed over 10 books per month, but unlike last year, way behind on what came out this year, especially in translation. So I won't opine on candidates for the Best Translated Book Award except to say that I expect Yale/Margellos to make a good showing on the longlist (and perhaps a first appearance by Counterpoint, for Dovlatov's Pushkin Hills) (but in a month or so I may have more to say about all this). Nearly half of my reading was first encounters, many of which augur further visits down the road.

 But, if I have to select just one title from amongst all the excellent reading (and I have to), it has to be Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology (David Hinton) [FSG]: As I said before, not just an anthology (nor just great translation) but wrapped in the context of the development of the tradition and the aesthetic. As such, it was the book from which I drew the most, and that's saying a lot (though there's a lot of competition out there).

 While this year I've been diligent about keeping an inventory of monthly reading, I don't think I'll be continuing the practice into the new year. The blog is just one of many things I'd like to take in a different direction. After all, it's worked for the reading ...nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-80783187282386780442014-12-13T19:16:00.000-05:002014-12-13T19:16:19.244-05:00Pledge BreakYes, pledge break: a phrase that always struck me as odd, suggesting promises unfulfilled (though I suppose breaking a pledge might also be the purpose of fraternity hazing). But as year-end draws nigh, it's once again time to consider (tax-dedectible) donations to non-profit literary translation publishers. I am of course partial to Archipelago Books myself, but there are numerous other opportunites to bolster the diversity of voices available to us, and moreso all the time; last year I mentioned new entrant Two Lines Press, this year it's time to wish Deep Vellum success on their launch.

 previouslynnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-59452680547744659692014-12-10T15:13:00.000-05:002014-12-10T16:13:19.143-05:00The name rings a bellFlowers and jewels, powers and fools ... another back-up posting from The Valve, nearly a guest post, with a touch of embroidery added, brought to mind in part by the second quatrain of Sonnet 21:
Making a couplement of proud compare
With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare,
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.

John Holbo had prompted me waybackthen to pick up William Empson's Some Versions of Pastoral, and I found an odd congruence between otherwise unrelated passages:

Chapter 1, Proletarian Literature (paragraph 3):
Gray's Elegy is an odd case of poetry with latent political ideas:
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
What this means, as the context makes clear, is that 18th century England had no scholarship system or carriere ouverte aux talents. This is stated as pathetic, but the reader is put into a mood in which one would not try to alter it. [...] By comparing the social arrangement to Nature he makes it seem inevitable, which it is not, and gives it a dignity which was undeserved. Furthermore, a gem does not mind being in a cave and a flower prefers not to be picked; we feel that the man is like the flower, as short-lived, natural, and valuable, and this tricks us into feeling that he is better off without opportunities. [...]

Chapter 2, Double Plots (paragraph 4):
This [tragic king/comic populace mirror] in itself can hardly be kept from irony, and the comic part, once licensed, has an obvious subject for its jokes. Usually it provides a sort of parody or parallel in low life to the serious part; Faustus' servant gets dangerously mixed up with the devils like his master. This gives an impression of dealing with life completely, so that critics sometimes say that Henry IV deals with the whole of English life at some date, either Shakespeare's or Henry's; this is palpable nonsense, but what the device wants to make you feel. Also the play can thus anticipate the parody a hearer might have in mind without losing its dignity, which again has a sort of completeness. It is hard to feel that Mac's wife was meant to do this, but she is only the less conscious end of the scale, and perhaps no example occupies only one point of it. A remark by Middleton on clowns seems a comment on this process:
"There's nothing in a play to a clown, if he
Have but the grace to hit on't; that's the thing needed:
The king shows well, but he sets off the king.
The idea of foil to a jewel and soil from which a flower grows give the two different views of such a character, and with a long 's' the words are almost indistinguishable; it may be significant that the first edition of Tamburlane's Beauty speech reads soil for the accepted 'foil,' a variant I have never seen listed, but the line is at some distance from intepreting either word. A clear case of 'foil' is given by the play of heroic swashbucklers, which has a comic cowardly swashbuckler (Parolles), not at all to parody the heroes but to stop you from doing so: 'If you want to laugh at this sort of thing laugh now and get it over.' I believe the Soviet Government in its early days paid two clowns, Bim and Bom, to say as jokes the things everybody else would have been shot for saying.
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Bim and Bom I'd seen not long ago, in context of translation of names in Beckett's What Where (where or what in I don't recall), though they originally appear as character names in Murphy ('57); Tyrus Miller's Late Modernism (UCPress, '99) makes the Bolshevik connection (net info on this or these clowns appended waybelow), but a bit'o'googlin' turned up J Meade Falkner's Moonfleet (1898), which concerns smugglers, trying to cheat an heir out of a diamond.

Empson makes his sole appearance offstage in chapter 1:
'Ay, 'twas a cruel, cruel thing to fire on so young a lad,' Ratsey said, as he stepped back a pace to study the effect of a flag that he was chiselling on the Revenue schooner, 'and trouble is likely to come to the other poor fellows taken, for Lawyer Empson says three of them will surely hang at next Assize.'

But chapter 3 introduces a distinctive ring, echoing once and only once later:
Soon I wished I had not come at all, considering that the diamond had vanished into air, and it was a sad thing to be cabined with so many dead men. It moved me, too, to see pieces of banners and funeral shields, and even shreds of wreaths that dear hearts had put there a century ago, now all ruined and rotten--some still clinging, water-sodden, to the coffins, and some trampled in the sand of the floor. I had spent some time in this bootless search, and was resolved to give up further inquiry and foot it home, when the clock in the tower struck midnight. Surely never was ghostly hour sounded in more ghostly place. Moonfleet peal was known over half the county, and the finest part of it was the clock bell. 'Twas said that in times past (when, perhaps, the chimes were rung more often than now) the voice of this bell had led safe home boats that were lost in the fog; and this night its clangour, mellow and profound, reached even to the vault. Bim-bom it went, bim-bom, twelve heavy thuds that shook the walls, twelve resonant echoes that followed, and then a purring and vibration of the air, so that the ear could not tell when it ended.
I was wrought up, perhaps, by the strangeness of the hour and place, and my hearing quicker than at other times, but before the tremor of the bell was quite passed away I knew there was some other sound in the air, and that the awful stillness of the vault was broken. At first I could not tell what this new sound was, nor whence it came, and now it seemed a little noise close by, and now a great noise in the distance. And then it grew nearer and more defined, and in a moment I knew it was the sound of voices talking. They must have been a long way off at first, and for a minute, that seemed as an age, they came no nearer. What a minute was that to me! Even now, so many years after, I can recall the anguish of it, and how I stood with ears pricked up, eyes starting, and a clammy sweat upon my face, waiting for those speakers to come. It was the anguish of the rabbit at the end of his burrow, with the ferret's eyes gleaming in the dark, and gun and lurcher waiting at the mouth of the hole. I was caught in a trap, and knew beside that contraband-men had a way of sealing prying eyes and stilling babbling tongues; and I remembered poor Cracky Jones found dead in the churchyard, and how men _said_ he had met Blackbeard in the night.

Chapter 15, with our hero lowered into a well-shaft in search of secreted treasure:
I heard them talking together, but could not make out what they said, for the bim-bom and echo in the well, till Elzevir shouted again, 'They say this floor has been raised; you must try lower.'
Then the bucket began to move lower, slowly, and I crouched down in it again, not wishing to look too much into the unfathomable, dark abyss below. And all the while there rose groanings and moanings from eddies in the bottom of the well, as if the spirits that kept watch over me jewel were yammering together that one should be so near it; and clear above them all I heard Grace's voice, sweet and grave, 'Have a care, have a care how you touch the treasure; it was evilly come by, and will bring a curse with it.'
But I had set foot on this way now, and must go through with it, so when the bucket stopped some six feet lower down, I fell again to diligently examining the walls. They were still built of the shallow bricks, and scanning them course by course as before, I could at first see nothing, but as I moved my eyes downward they were brought up by a mark scratched on a brick, close to the hanging plummet-line.
Now, however lightly a man may glance through a book, yet if his own name, or even only one nice it, should be printed on the page, his eyes will instantly be stopped by it; so too, if his name be mentioned by others in their speech, though it should be whispered never so low, his ears will catch it. Thus it was with this mark, for though it was very slight, so that I think not one in a thousand would ever have noticed it at all, yet it stopped my eyes and brought up my thoughts suddenly, because I knew by instinct that it had something to do with me and what I sought.

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That note had been wrung long before from another bell: from Edgar Poe's "Marginalia," Southern Literary Messenger, June 1849:
The Carlyle-ists should adopt, as a motto, the inscription on the old bell from whose metal was cast the Great Tom, of Oxford: — "In Thomæ laude resono 'Bim! Bom!' sine fraude:" — and "Bim! Bom," in such case, would be a marvellous "echo of sound to sense."
(I find it curious that birth of Bossa Nova was marked by João Gilberto's Bim Bom.)
I have sometimes amused myself by endeavoring to fancy what would be the fate of any individual gifted, or rather accursed, withan intellect very far superior to that of his race. Of course, he would be conscious of his superiority; nor could he (if otherwise constituted as man is) help manifesting his consciousness. Thus he would make himself enemies at all points. And since his opinions andspeculations would widely differ from those of all mankind–that he would be considered a madman, is evident. How horribly painful such a condition! Hell could invent no greater torture than that of being charged with abnormal weakness on account of being abnormally strong.
In like manner, nothing can be clearer than that a very generous spirit–truly feeling what all merely profess–must inevitably find itself misconceived in every direction–its motives misinterpreted. Just as extremeness of intelligence would be thought fatuity, so excess of chivalry could not fail of being looked upon as meanness in its last degree–and so on with other virtues. This subject is a painful one indeed. That individuals have so soared above the plane oftheir race, is scarcely to be questioned; but, in looking back through history for traces of their existence, we should pass over all biographies of "the good and the great," while we search carefully theslight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows.

Bim and Bom backgrounding:

Dennis Casey, Lawful Terror: The Cheka (Air Intelligence Agency, Lackland AFB) confuses the joke:
When the Cheka opened for business in Moscow, their list of candidates to receive brutal treatment was extensive. Heading the list was the celebrated circus clown Bim Bom. His repertoire included jokes about the Bolsheviks in particular and Communists in general.
When Cheka agents attempted to arrest the irreverent clown during one of his performances, the audience thought the antics were part of the act. Bim Bom fled from the ring with the agents firing at him. His escape was made possible when the audience in panic bolted for the exits. As one amused bystander so aptly put it, the clowns were chasing the clown.

Time, Courtiers B. & K., April 30, 1956: "Russia's Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev visit Britain—subhead: Jeweled Cuff Links. The Soviet story in the past three years is largely the story of Nikita Khrushchev's effort to wear the mantle of Stalin's leadership."
Home from his foreign exploits, Khrushchev began preparing for his major triumph as First Secretary: dominating his first party congress. His 47,000-word speech was loaded with tables of production, learned quotes from Lenin, and exhortations to efficiency and greater production. It sounded like (and might easily have been) a rehash of one of Stalin's old speeches. In Stalin's mighty fashion, Khrushchev took lofty cracks at top party comrades, referred to Malenkov as an "incorrigible braggart," and told how it had been "necessary to correct" Molotov on an important ideological point.
It was the attitude of a man who undoubtedly considered himself Stalin's legitimate heir. But crafty little Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian trader, had been chosen to deliver a speech (obviously approved by others in the leadership) which snatched the rug out from under Nikita's big feet. Mikoyan attacked Stalin's Short Course of the History of the Party, for years the ideological basis of all such Communists as Khrushchev. He dismissed Stalin's phony account of the civil war and talked of "party leaders of that time who were wrongly declared to have been enemies of the people." Adding insult to injury, Mikoyan named Khrushchev's liquidated predecessor Kossior as one such and asserted, to the sound of laughter, that "Ukrainian historians will be found who will write a history of the emergence and development of the Ukrainian socialist state better than some Moscow historians." The speech, opening up the whole case against Stalin, and by indirection the complicity of his associates, was a sensation.
For two days it was withheld from print. Then, as the 20th congress ended, Khrushchev called his famous secret meeting in which he tearfully blabbed the whole story of Stalin's mass murders, torturings and evil motives. Nikita's reasons could be deduced: if the party was going to open that one up, he was going to be chief opener. If they intended to pin a guilt label to him, he would show that they were all equally guilty. By twice indicating in his speech that Georgy Malenkov was Stalin's most trusted collaborator, he wanted to make certain that Malenkov (whom Muscovites now somewhat affectionately call Georgy Neudachnik (Georgy the Unsuccessful) came in for his share of guilt.
Leaked to the world press and foreign diplomats at a French embassy party (attended by Mikoyan), the story exploded on the foreign Communist Parties and rebounded in the Soviet Union with atomic force. In Soviet newspapers it was the signal for an intense campaign against "the cult of personality." Ostensibly the campaign was directed against the dead Stalin, and busts of the dictator began falling all over the land. But it was also a warning to Khrushchev. The subsequent acknowledgment of Stalin's anti-Semitism was also a reminder of Khrushchev's work in the Ukraine. As the Central Committee began rehabilitating liquidated Red army officers, Nikita's chosen partner Bulganin suffered a severe loss of prestige. Marshal Zhukov, who had been downgraded (and all but liquidated) by top military commissar Bulganin at the high point of his great wartime victories, had an old score to settle.
In Moscow, where people are quick to catch the political drift, anyone can get a laugh today by starting out in high-pitched Russian, "Ya i moi droog . . ." a phrase which appears often in Khrushchev's speeches, meaning "I and my friend . . ." i.e., Bulganin. Jokes about Bim and Bom, famed Russian circus clowns, have suddenly found a new popularity in Moscow.
Boo & Chant. In Britain last week Bim and Bom (or B. & K.) doggedly labored at their act, even though their audiences were cool. At Oxford some 5,000 people, mostly students, broke police lines to crowd around them booing and chanting: "Poor old Joe, poor old Joe!" (to the tune of Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe). Bulganin stood up smiling and raising his arms like a boxer acknowledging applause, signed autographs and patted student cheeks. In New College quadrangle, students set off a huge firecracker which made B. & K. jump, led Bulganin to quip: "Are they making an atomic bomb?"

nnyhavhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14944448.post-33620195538532579902014-11-28T17:26:00.000-05:002014-11-28T17:26:01.837-05:00November readsMy reading schedule was abbreved this month perforce ... all were good, but nothing blew me away (Mehigan's poetry came closest).

 Samuel Schuman, Nabokov's Shakespeare [Bloomsbury]: As per prior post, I'd hoped more would be made of the concordance. As it happens, Schuman passed away shortly after that, and will be sorely missed by the Nabokovian community, scholarly and otherwise, to which he long contributed.
Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World (Carol Brown Janeway) [Vintage]: an historical comedy of errors ideas, cruel & deadpan (that last aspect exculpating the flatness of the prose) (& how german is it?), and for me Gauss & von Humboldt is a great hook. [MAO]
Italo Calvino, Collection of Sand (Martin McLaughlin) [HMH/Mariner]: late and various essays, the first third on exhibitions the strongest, followed by progressive lightening in occasional pieces and reflections on travel. [tranlator's intro]
Joshua Mehigan, Accepting the Disaster [FSG]: per Adam Kirsch, prompting my picking it up. Transcends "New Yorker" styling (which, yes, I have a problem with).
Edouard Levé, Works (Jan Steyn) [Dalkey]: Art: apprehension & appraisal, an unmanifested manifest. [MAO]
Gerald Murnane, A Million Windows [only large print avail in US]: A further extrapolation and involution of his distinctive writerly concerns, perhaps pushing the boundaries a bit too far (but plaudits for taking the risk). [Emmett Stinson]

 Coming up: I seem to have instigated a reading group on Shakespeare's sonnets ... part of my interest is in Booth's annotations recasting to the Renaissance eye: the flux in English though seems largely fixed by Shakespeare (who was twice as close to Chaucer as we to him) but more by circumchance than design (and the sonnets themselves not rehabilitated til the Romantics, later then than the plays). nnyhavhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Lakeland Police Advisory Commission, appointed by Mayor Gow Fields, is a group of business and civic leaders who are charged with recommending specific actions to improve community trust with the Lakeland Police Department. The Advisory Commission is chaired by Bruce Abels and co-chaired by Tim Jackson. Among the tasks, they will be looking to see if cultural changes are needed and what steps may need to be taken to ensure that employees of the City of Lakeland feel comfortable about bringing complaints forward.
The Lakeland Police Department is currently conducting a series of internal investigations and as a way to keep the community informed, the City of Lakeland has compiled information pertaining to these investigations in one place. The Lakeland Police Advisory Commission has also been formed to define and answer questions concerning the recent controversies involving the Lakeland Police Department. The group will review policies, conduct research regarding the Department and suggest actions that can be taken to improve community trust. Materials requested by the Advisory Commission will also be shared with the community and published on this site. For more information regarding the Lakeland Police Advisory Panel and to learn more about the internal investigations, go to www.lakelandgov.netand click on the LPD Update button.
LAKELAND, FL (July 31, 2013) – Do you need a program for your elementary-aged child for the week between Summer Camp and the first day of school? We have your solution! The City of Lakeland is offering "Camp Extra", a week-long summer recreation program located at the Kelly Recreation Complex. Camp begins Monday, August 12th and continues through Friday, August 16th from 7:30am – 5:30pm. The fee is $75.00 per child and can be paid by cash or check.
Camp Extra offers elementary students, who have completed kindergarten through the 5th grade, fun and exciting opportunities for enrichment including swimming at Gandy Pool, on-site games, special activity programming and more!
Don't miss out on Camp Extra! Registration is ongoing for this opportunity and spots are filling up quickly! For full details on camp dates, activities, etc. call the Kelly Recreation Complex, 863/834-3284, option 2.


text: Does anyone have a wiring diagram (or know) for the Dodge Ram front door Infinity speakers which have the built-in amplifier? My '98 Ram 2500 has the Infinity sound system in it, with the A-piller speakers, front door speakers w/ amplifier, and back door speakers. The connectors for the front door speakers are different on the left and right doors. THe Left door has significanlty more wires to the connector, about 10 I think, and the right door speaker has 6. Does anyone know what signals go on what color wires? I thought I read somewhere that the amplifier in the FL door powers the speaker in the FR door? So I would guess that there must be both input and output lines in the FL connector? Any help would be appreciated!


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Swank and sophisticated, many guests admit our signature lounge is cozier than their own living room. The Lounge is a bar found at our boutique hotel in downtown Houston, where corporate and leisure travel guests can come to socialize and relax. Features of The Lounge include:
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This grant application responds to Program Announcement Number PA-11-110 (Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD and Other Dual Doctoral Degree Fellows) by proposing a study on the differences in optical signatures between healthy and malignant breast tissue using a combined Near Infrared (NIR) spectral tomography (NIRST) and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) system. This is a single exam platform that synergistically combines the functional parameters obtained through NIRST with the high-resolution three-dimensional structural information available from DBT for breast cancer surveillance. This study aims to examine and eliminate several potential barriers to clinical implementation and subject participation as well a optimize system performance for detection of cancer. Through clinical exams of both healthy and diseased breasts, this project will examine relationships between optical scattering parameters, X-ray density and other DBT characteristics with the goal of estimating optical scattering from the DBT, eliminating the need for optical hardware for scattering measurements. Optical phantoms will independently verify contrast recovery linearity and scatter estimation. The study will analyze the effects of breast compression levels during the NIRST/DBT exam on optical tissue signatures in both healthy and diseased subjects, by performing combined scans at two compression levels. Determination of optical contrast levels between a region of interest (ROI) and background will be characterized for each subject at each compression level and DBT images at each level will also be compared. The focus of this part of the study is to identify what compression level can most accurately identify lesions and evaluate the necessity of full compression exams. Furthermore, comparisons between pathologic results and NIRST/DBT images of subjects with disease will be performed in order to further understand the biological origins of the optical property measurements. By the end of the proposed funding period, we expect to have developed an increased knowledge of the nature of tissue scattering, the effects of breast compression and the underlying histopathology of breast cancer that creates image contrast. These advances will direct optimization of the hardware and software components of NIRST/DBT system to increase the likelihood of significantly improved ROC characteristics and positive predictive value of a combined system compared to DBT alone while simultaneously minimizing system cost and complexity.
This project aims to improve breast cancer screening by optimizing a new imaging system. This new system combines breast tomosynthesis, which uses X-rays to produces high resolution three dimensional images, with near infrared imaging, which provides information about tissue metabolism, such as the amount of hemoglobin, water and lipids that are present. Combining these two imaging techniques may make it easier to distinguish cancer from normal tissue during a breast cancer screening exam.
|Michaelsen, Kelly E; Krishnaswamy, Venkataramanan; Shenoy, Adele et al. (2014) Anthropomorphic breast phantoms with physiological water, lipid, and hemoglobin content for near-infrared spectral tomography. J Biomed Opt 19:026012


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The government unanimously approved, Sunday, a one-year extension of the Citizenship Law, which places security restrictions on a person becoming an Israeli citizen in the name of family unification. The restrictions generally apply to Palestinian Authority Arabs in Judea, Samaria (Shomron) and Gaza, and residents of sovereign countries who are officially at war or in a state of belligerence against Israel.
Tags:PA, PA Arabs, Citizenship Law, Cabinet, Gaza Region, Judea-Samaria, war, government, Samaria (Shomron), Dov Khenin, family reunification, belligerence


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