In the post: the first part of Lezama Lima’s biography by Ernesto Hernández Busto. If you still haven’t read Lezama’s neo-baroque masterpiece Paradiso, I don’t know what you’re doing with your lives.

Romania to be guest of honor at Frankfurt Book Fair 2028 www.romania-insider.com/romania-gues...

Dragon initial, Normandy, 11th century

Thank you Paul and @thebaffler.com for getting more readers interested in Schattenfroh. For the newcomers, I have a guide theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...

The Soul of the Rich Man Tormented by Devils, Saint Pierre, Moissac

In the post: a linguistically exuberant Catalan novel that was out of print for too long.

Will Evans and Monica Cure with a bunch of books in Bucharest m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ9R...

The English translation of Cărtărescu's Theodoros is going to be published as a hardcover. amzn.to/49JCcdS

I’ve heard it's good theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2021/08/04/k...

Just found out that the Portuguese for a hummingbird is literally “flower kisser”.

Laiseca, el Maestro. Un retrato íntimo m.youtube.com/watch?v=GrD4...

Recent acquisition. Been meaning to get it for ages.

Nice to get a shout-out from Bucharest, where @willevans.bsky.social and Mircea Cărtărescu are talking about world literature.

On a social media break.

Ernst Fuchs

On page 365 of Schattenfroh, I came across the following: 'the question as to which of the three chairs is more real and true occupies me'. It made me think of the artwork 'One and three chairs' (1965) by Joseph Kosuth, and how it shows the question of ekphrasis that is central to the book.

In the post: the Italian original of one of the most expected translations from NYRB Classics

Cracking open a couple of doorstops for the new year.... #Pilgrimage2026

First movie watched in 2026: Myth of Man

Recently I was on the Three Percent Podcast to discuss THE CALF by Leif Høghaug (a book I translated from Norwegian into Southern US dialect). Tune in if you’d like to hear Leif and I describe our collaboration on this unique project… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Yet another video review of you know what m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea8e...

Favorite reads of 2025, #15. #Schattenfroh #MichaelLentz “‘All things were made by him; / and without him was not any thing made that was made.’ What does that mean? The Word was there before God. Or: God was first within it, as Word….

The Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics: 2025 m.youtube.com/watch?v=CPoQ...

Ken Russell’s The Devils channeling Bruegel's Triumph of Death

The wonderfully weird world of artist Luigi Serafini www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ZE...

Il calendario del 2026 di Luigi Serafini www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2025/1...

Michael Lentz, Schattenfroh. Easily the weirdest thing I read this year and also one of the best.

Minuit, l’heure blasonnée by Toyen

What did the Midwinter Daemon bring to us? First (naturally), *my* book haul: three slim volumes comprising Mervyn Wall's two Fursey novels & Ray Bradbury's Zen and the Art of Writing; and the weighty (in every sense) Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz, tr. Max Lawton - h/t @theuntranslated.bsky.social

61. Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz (tr. Max Lawton). A mind-expanding, bravura work that I am still trying to figure out the implications of; an interrogation of the very foundations of representation in European culture: is the word the picture or is the picture the word?

“He is the Sagrada Familia of writing. Pure, reckless lalangue. Unshared language knocking at the door of a mystery.” Francesco Pacifico about Antonio Moresco

You can leaf through the whole book here. Truly fascinating! archive.org/details/gri_...

Grotesque with two hybrid gristly creatures facing each other; on left with a boar's snout underneath a male mask and a crab's claw holding a fish, on right a bearded male figure holding a candle. Illustration to Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)

Chaos awaits

I quite liked Schattenfroh. Even made a little guide theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...

Finalment ja ha arribat. Aviat tocarà llegir-lo amb l’ajut de la guia: theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a... I amb l’ajut de l’amic @nordicnovellas.bsky.social editor (en sentit anglès) de la traducció. #llibres #📚

Started Schattenfroh because of this, and wow I've not read anything like it .Still much to go, but it gives me the same feeling as when I read In Search of Lost Time. Of course, that's a very different novel in terms of subject, but both ask a lot of the reader and reward the patience you give it

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Tyrolean painter & sculptor Michael Pacher. Let us just all admit that his Saint Wolfgang altar, at 12+ meters high, is simply stupendous. Completed in 1481.

Translating Arabic Polyglossia In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Jonathan Wright discuss Wright's start in literary translation, its divergence from the sort of translation he practiced as a journalist, and his ideas about what he calls Arabic polyglossia.

LOS SORIAS DE ALBERTO LAISECA O LA REEDICIÓN DE UN FESTIVAL DE TORTURAS tierraadentro.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/los-sorias-d...

See what's coming from us in spring 2026. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...

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“We are thrown into some kind of uninterrupted pre-Socratic dawn or, better still, into an atemporal tour in the claritas of the creation. […] what happens is, so to speak, aion, not chronos.” – Tiziano Scarpa

Schattenfroh is a Washington Post cover model!! @maxlawton.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @theuntranslated.bsky.social

Schattenfroh: A Fable About Totalitarianism Written in Brain-Fluid An interview with the book’s author Michael Lentz and its translator, Max Lawton, about the German cult novel Schattenfroh thequietus.com/culture/book...

Presentació del llibre d’en @mdepalol.bsky.social a @documentabcn.bsky.social amb @jojedaca.bsky.social i Clara Ponsati, “Abans més que encara” amb la presencia d’Ernest Folch (#Navona) “Artista convidat”: @theuntranslated.bsky.social #llibres #catala #literatura www.instagram.com/reel/DSIlyVN...

Si vous avez déjà vu Inception, un film d’Hitchcock ou une pochette psychédélique, vous avez croisé Escher… même sans le savoir. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/977

An historic moment. When I wrote my review of the trilogy I couldn't have imagined that its English translation would begin so soon. Miracles happen. But beware - Songs of Chaos is a flower of evil that will leave only few, the most depraved, unscathed. theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/g...

Our new episode is up! And of course it’s that time of year! Here is part one of our top ten reads of 2025. Thanks so much to friends who called in to share their favorites too! @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I will be recording part two soon! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...

Exciting news about "the most daring and visionary works to ever appear in Italian literature" coming tomorrow.