Ian Ellison

Dec 11, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Ian Ellison

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Nov 3, 2024 | the-orb.org | Ian Ellison

Art by Federica PesciniIan Ellison considers Selected Stories: Franz Kafka, translated and edited by Mark Harman(Harvard University Press 2024) and A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Short Stories by Ali Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Tommy Orange, Yiyun Li, Keith Ridgway, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Naomi Alderman, Leone Ross, and Joshua Cohen, introduced by Becca RothfeldAll quotations from the diaries of Franz Kafka are taken from:Franz Kafka, The Diaries, trans.

Aug 23, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ian Ellison

Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, an unparalleled chronicle of European modernity's transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, was published between 1913 and 1927. It was not until the 1950s, however, that a complete German translation of the novel appeared.

Feb 7, 2023 | the-tls.co.uk | European Literature |Ian Ellison |Karolina Watroba |Barbara Heldt

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain can get under your skin. I first read it in intense bursts during a period of ill health shortly after moving to Germany. Its account of dislocation and realignment thrilled and disturbed me. The inhabitants of the Berghof sanatorium seemed hardly to be characters at all, let alone people; they were ideas and intensities, the novel they populated disorienting, stimulating and weirdly funny. When I finished it, I was left in a state of dreamlike intoxication.