Just misread “libros” as “litbros”

O obsceno pássaro da noite, a obra-prima de José Donoso m.youtube.com/watch?v=Opmd...

Bye-bye, scalpers!

In the post: a little biography of Hilbert

That huge Casares book on Borges is going to be republished in an extended 2-volume version www.lanacion.com.ar/cultura/reed...

Happy 70th anniversary, Mircea!

Eu não posso deixar de agradecer ao @theuntranslated.bsky.social por ter me apresentado à Céline Minard. Primeira vez que soube dela foi lendo está resenha aqui: theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2018/10/04/b...

The most exuberant interior I’ve been to.

Les Vigiles de Charles VII, manuscrit de Martial d'Auvergne, vers 1484, BnF, Manuscrit Français 5054, enluminure du folio 11 (recto).

In the post: Anders on the antiquatedness of humanity

Jornada Internacional Miquel de Palol licetc.uib.cat/2026/01/20/j...

The Earthsea boxed set from LOA

Been meaning to get it for ages

Following the recent trend, Moresco tried to write his next novel using AI. He wrote a detailed prompt explaining in painstaking detail what he wanted to achieve, and this is what he received as response. (Many thanks to Antonio for sharing the screenshot.)

4 independent bookstores in Milan from Not My Cup of Read www.youtube.com/watch?v=APev...

The new Cărtărescu book is titled Texistența - Text + Existence. Is it the short story collection he mentioned in the interview? We'll find out soon. theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...

High Society by Cecily Brown

Mnohosten

Catalan solids

Watching a podcast about huge numbers and reading about this metaphorical representation of 52 factorial reminded me of the classic. czep.net/weblog/52car...

In the post: the biography of the man

Esta edição, especial, com novo projeto gráfico, inclui a entrevista clássica de João Guimarães Rosa ao jornalista e tradutor alemão Gunter Lorenz, realizada em 1965, e um ensaio do pesquisador Érico Melo sobre os caminhos dos rascunhos até a forma final do romance. Hardcover!

Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize has been awarded to the English translation of Schattenfroh! Congratulations to Max Lawton, @nordicnovellas.bsky.social and @deepvellum.bsky.social! www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ku...

The official Live of the Festival de Cannes 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g14J...

BOTD Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol

Paolo Volponi, Corporale (1974) www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2JI...

Wishing a very happy 89th birthday to the great Thomas Pynchon! His books changed my life.

September

5 CAPAS ICÔNICAS DE “GRANDE SERTÃO VEREDAS” www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqZg...

Galáxias by Haroldo de Campos - Translated by Odile Cisneros www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15C...

Rooting for Schattenfroh

You can read an excerpt from the French translation of Neuromaniac here. The map is very easy to follow. static.showit.com/file/hXoALbl...

I can't read Finnish. 5 years ago, based on secondary sources and the recommendation of @skykelp.bsky.social I wrote a post about the labyrinthine novel Neuromaani by Jaakko Yli-Juonikas, which I would have loved to read in translation. Guess what happened. static.showit.com/file/9TdmaKn...

7 years ago I profited from my stay in the US to buy this edition of João Guimarães Rosa’s complete fiction. The shipping costs from Brazil were bearable. When I was going back, my check-in baggage was to the limit, but I’d rather have given up my shoes than these two volumes.

Sunday movie

Had to get this edition of The Name of the Rose because of Umberto Eco's drawings.

Tetracedron absci sus Vacuus by Salvador Dalí

Updated my Palol shelf

Inscription with a labyrinth

I’ve seen in Barcelona in 2 weeks: Sagrada Familia C. Batllo Pedrera Palau Guell Park Guell Palau de la Musica M. Picasso F. Miró Cat. Art Museum Montjuic Castle Dalí Mus. in Figueres Dalí House in Portlligat Cadaqués Montserrat Tarragona Girona Sitges Josep M. Miquel de Palol

Last Gaudí before departure

Visited an alchemist’s study

Casa Sayrach

Bolaño lived here

Another dragon off my bucket list

Barcelona. View from Montjuic.

The Monument to the Cathedral Master Builders of Girona by Josep Maria Subirachs

Girona Cathedral

The Tapestry of Creation at the Girona Cathedral is incredible

Tarragona Cathedral