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This looks promising: scandinavian literature: reviews, translations & independent coverage of independent books lonningspils.ca

Look what finally made it to Germany! @theuntranslated.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @mitbal.bsky.social

Michael Lentz's Schattenfroh and Innehaben Reading one of the most challenging contemporary works of combined fiction and nonfiction substack.com/home/post/p-...

Infinitely enigmatic Flagellation of Christ, c. 1455, by spatial genius Piero della Francesca. Today is his day.

La Carovana dell'Orca. Per i 50 anni del romanzo di D'Arrigo. Sulla linea dei due mari. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a85F...

My favourite wimmelbook

I've heard the book is good. Support independent booksellers.

“Everywhere across this surface, stories are being told. It teems with stories, like a wimmelbild [teeming picture]. […] Schattenfroh is a wimmelbuch, a book teeming with images.” This tradition is alive, both in painting and writing. theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/i...

Interview with Michael Lentz: On his literary influences, the genesis of Schattenfroh, two Bosches, Kabbalah, the German Baroque, U.S. readers, and a new big project theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/i...

O frabjous day! A hard cover finally joins my e-copy, so I can switch to the analogue experience.

Super interesante entrevista👇🏻

Although I already have 4 editions of Dante’s Commedia, 2 Italian and 2 translations, I couldn’t say “no”.

Mircea Cărtărescu’s Interview for De Standaard: On Theodoros, Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealism, writing methods, literary fame, ambition, tyranny, and his work in progress theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...

Congrats!

Reading (finally): #Schattenfroh (Michael Lentz trans. Max Lawton, ed. Matthias Friedrich, 2025) overcast.fm/+x6bYvbi8g theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...

Deep Vellum to publish Mircea Cărtărescu’s THEODOROS in October 2026 www.deepvellum.org/news/theodor...

For the Pittsburgh Review of Books, I wrote an essay on Schattenfroh’s novel genealogies and the question of a total novel that does not coalesce into signification. Thanks Ed Simon for accepting the essay. pghrev.com/totality-wit...

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for their work in quantum mechanics.

Schattenfroh was brilliant. Book as author as torus, as tzimtzum, unfolding by infolding until the sky’s light breaks again and the torus has cycled back to its initial state. A requiem for seemingly every death but mostly his father’s, an outpouring of grief shucked from the walls of Nobody’s soul.

“Schattenfroh belongs thusly to the rare but foundational tradition of books that trouble the very relationship that a reader, young or mature, has to literature.” Great review of Schattenfroh from Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado pghrev.com/totality-wit...

#Lentz25 #Schattenfroh Part 3 #MichaelLentz #DeepVellum translated by #MaxLawton #SchattenfrohSeptember #readinganactofsharedsolitude #beedoubleokayess📚🐦 #paperpills🇵🇸❤️ #ReemReel #AThingOfBeauty www.instagram.com/reel/DPZFddS...

Arabic has 348 words for "lion". Here is the cover of Ibn Khālawayh's (d. 980, Baghdad) book on the subject.

Schattenfroh PT 3. deadlifts, coffee and experimental literature www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4fM...

A Reader’s Guide to Schattenfroh theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/a...

Tensión entre paisaje y poblamiento, naturaleza y cultura, realidad e historia. Qué maravilla de novela. @theuntranslated.bsky.social le dedicó esta estupenda reseña theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/f.... Por si os queréis acabar de decidir.

László Krasznahorkai visits Kosmopolis for the first time to talk with the writer Miquel de Palol, who shares his taste for elaborate and exacting prose. kosmopolis.cccb.org/en/edicions/...

My candidate for this year's Nobel Prize in literature

Oldie but goodie

Angel guides Saint Luke's stylus in spectacular life sitting with Virgin, child, and bunch of putti, 1525. By Jan Gossaert. It's his day.

Have almost forgotten that today is the International Translation Day. Long live the translator!

Reading Schattenfroh (~400 pages in) reminds me of reading Gravity’s Rainbow the first time A lot of confusion but a deep sense that it’s a dry run for future readings where it will reveal more / I’ll know how to read it better

I have some good news to share. This sprawling, weird sci-fi avant-garde novel is being translated into English by Kaija Straumanis and Uldis Balodis for Open Letter. theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2023/12/21/g...

What to read after Schattenfroh? Schattennummer, of course.

I can report that Michael Lentz’s Schattenfroh gets REALLY good at about the 149p mark. I still have lots to traverse, but this book and translation is superb. @deepvellum.bsky.social

More #Schattenfroh notes shortly over at open.substack.com/pub/schatten.... This week, I’ve gotten sucked back into Hamlet for my final paper, and also this 1,000 plus lot of vintage ACE and DAW sci-fi MMPs… but more on that later.

Kid found a package on our doorstep & opened it thinking it was something cool for her. Turns out it was the newly-translated German 1,001-page experimental-fiction novel I ordered (tho she’s welcome to read it too)

Since so many people are adopting Schattenfroh as a new standard unit of measure, I decided to whip out my Penguin.

Schattenfroh with Bub for scale

at the point in SCHATTENFROH where it reminds me of the rage baby we got at the Holy Redeemer

Munich

A bit late to the party, but here's my look at Mircea Cărtărescu's 'Solenoid' (translated by Sean Cotter, published by Deep Vellum Publishing), a mind-bending tale of a man and his electromagnet ;) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/s...

One Calls This Reading: First Thoughts on Michael Lentz's Schattenfroh “Schattenfroh made me feel ‘The Shock Of The New.’” jafrank09.substack.com/p/one-calls-...

It’s a great substack. Everyone reading Schattenfroh should check it out.

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#Schattenfroh #MichaelLentz #Lentz25 "It felt to me as if a voice were sitting on my tongue and repeating itself a hundred times…” (Chaim Vital, Sefer ha-chezyonot) Jeremiah 1:9 …the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

This afternoon I went to Llibreria Finestres in Barcelona to order a copy of Schattenfroh. They told me: -Are you Xavier? -No, I’m not, my name is Josep. -Oh! There’s another order done for the same book. Nice! @nordicnovellas.bsky.social @theuntranslated.bsky.social @maxlawton.bsky.social

Schattenfroh Supplements: The Beginnings of a List schattenfroh.substack.com/p/schattenfr...