This is a report of the ‘Vision and Support Session’, an open discussion held last week, on 30 July, within the Science Fiction Research Association conference, “Trans People are (in) the Future: Queer and Trans Futurity in Science Fiction” (University of Rochester, New York), a conference which lasted until yesterday, August 3rd. The organizer of […]
La entrada de hoy resume la ‘Vision and Support Session’, una conversación abierta celebrada la semana pasada, el 30 de julio, dentro del congreso de la Science Fiction Rsearch Association, “Trans People are (in) the Future: Queer and Trans Futurity in Science Fiction” (University of Rochester, Nueva York), congreso que duró hasta ayer, 3 de […]
You might think that Victorian novels are so long because of their serialization in weekly or monthly instalments, sold either as part of periodical publications or independently. However, this business practice, introduced by Charles Dickens’s publisher, Chapman, with the serialization of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (19 instalments between March 1836 and November […]
Se podría pensar que las novelas victorianas son tan largas debido a su serialización en entregas semanales o mensuales, vendidas como parte de publicaciones periódicas o de forma independiente. Sin embargo, esta práctica comercial, introducida por el editor de Charles Dickens, Chapman, con la serialización de The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (19 entregas […]
In this summer of very long books, I have re-read with great pleasure Benito Pérez Galdós’s masterpiece Fortunata y Jacinta: dos historias de casadas (1887), a novel certainly far superior to Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina, but still not hailed as the universal classic it should be. Blame for this a certain prejudice against Spanish literature and […]
En este verano de libros larguísimos, he releído con mucho gusto la obra maestra de Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta: dos historias de casadas (1887), una novela ciertamente muy superior a Anna Karenina de Tolstoi, pero todavía no reconocida como un clásico universal, tal como debería. Galdós, admirador de Dickens, está posiblemente más […]
Last week I confessed my gradual loss of enthusiasm over Anna Karenina, a novel whose last sections I mostly skipped. This week I confess that I had a similar problem with Studs Terkel’s Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974). This is a collection […]
La semana pasada confesé mi paulatina pérdida de entusiasmo por Anna Karenina, una novela cuyas últimas secciones me salté en su mayoría. Esta semana confieso que tuve un problema similar con Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974) de Studs Terkel. Se trata de […]
I must confess my total and utter failure to enjoy Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina (serialized 1875-1877 and printed in a single volume in 1878). I started with the customary patience I use when reading very long texts (1096 pages in my edition, the excellent 2000 translation by husband-and-wife team Richard Pevear and Larissa […]
Debo confesar mi total y absoluto fracaso a la hora de disfrutar de la novela clásica de León Tolstoi Anna Karenina (publicada por entregas entre 1875 y 1877 e impresa en un solo volumen en 1878). Empecé con la paciencia habitual que empleo cuando leo textos muy largos (1096 páginas en mi edición, la excelente […]