Can Xue— I live in the slums. I didn’t settle firmly on one place to live. I could stay anywhere as long as it had a stove. This area produces coal: all the homes used coal to keep fires burning at night. I just lay in a corner of the
To celebrate the publication in English of Italian novelist Claudio Magris’ innovative novel, Blindly, translated by Anne Milano Appel, we are pleased to present an intimate conversation between author and translator in advance of Magris’ U.S. book tour. Hailed as a masterpiece when first published in Italy, the book twists through time and space, recounting
Italian author and 2001 Erasmus Prize winner Claudio Magris is touring the U.S. this fall to present his most recent novel Blindly, expertly translated by Anne Milano Appel and published earlier this year as part of Yale University Press’s Margellos World Republic of Letters series – a series committed to making the work