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Elizabeth Bishop’s Other Art

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  Elizabeth Bishop’s Other Art William Benton This year is the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Bishop, one of the most celebrated figures in American poetry, and several new collections of her prose, poems, and correspondence have been published to commemorate it. Her work is a widely recognized force in American poetry. Far less known is that Bishop was also an accomplished artist. March 9, 2011 Collection of Loren MacIver Elizabeth Bishop: Daisies in Paintbucket . Watercolor and gouache, 10½ x 9½ inches. Used as the jacket illustration for One Art: Letters . The lyrical, semi-abstract array of flowers–in short strokes and freely drawn delicate lines–fans out over the paint bucket, which is placed dead center and as far front as possible. It has the aplomb of a masterpiece. This year is the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Bishop, one of the most celebrated figures in American poetry, and several new collections of her prose, poems, and correspondence have been published t...
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Le Promeneur Solitaire: W. G. Sebald on Robert Walser

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  Le Promeneur Solitaire: W. G. Sebald on Robert Walser Kẻ tản bộ cô đơn: Sebald viết về Robert Walser Unrecounted Người ghi chú cô đơn: The Solitary Notetaker Please send me the brown overcoat from the Rhine valley in which at one time I used to ramble the night. [Hãy gửi cho tôi cái áo choàng mầu nâu từ thung lũng sông Rhine mà có lần tôi mặc dạo đêm]. Le Promeneur Solitaire: W. G. Sebald on Robert Walser Kẻ tản bộ cô đơn: Sebald viết về Robert Walser February 7, 2014 Le Promeneur Solitaire: W. G. Sebald on Robert Walser Posted by The New Yorker This essay is adapted from a chapter of “A Place in the Country,” a collection of essays by W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), translated from the German by Jo Catling, which comes out next week from Random House. In these linked essays, Sebald takes up the troubled lives of five writers and one painter with the delicacy, intensity, and tone of sombre mystery for which he was known. Bài tiểu luận này được phóng tác từ 1 chương của "Một Chỗ trong...
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The Genius of Robert Walser

  The Genius of Robert Walser | J.M. Coetzee | The New York Review of Books The Genius of Robert Walser J.M. Coetzee November 2, 2000 issue Reviewed: The Robber by Robert Walser, Translated from the German and with an introduction by Susan Bernofsky University of Nebraska Press, 141 pp., $15.00 (paper) Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser, Translated from the German and with an introduction by Christopher Middleton New York Review Books, 176 pp., $12.95 (paper) On Christmas Day, 1956, the police of the town of Herisau in eastern Switzerland were called out: children had stumbled upon the body of a man, frozen to death, in a snowy field. Arriving at the scene, the police took photographs and had the body removed. The dead man was easily identified: Robert Walser, aged seventy-eight, missing from a local mental hospital. In his earlier years Walser had won something of a reputation, in Switzerland and even in Germany, as a writer. Some of his books were still in print; there had even be...
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