Peter Filkins’s Translation of Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death Reviewed in the Wall Street Journal
“This is the first time the complete text of The Book Against Death has appeared in English, compliments of a superlative translation by Peter Filkins,” writes Sam Sacks for the Wall Street Journal. The Book Against Death, translated by Visiting Professor of Literature Peter Filkins from German, is a collection of notes, fragments, and aphorisms that Elias Canetti wrote across half a century.
Francine Prose’s New Memoir 1974 Reviewed in the Los Angeles Times
1974, a new memoir by Distinguished Writer in Residence Francine Prose, was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times. “Throughout 1974, Prose skillfully interweaves the political and the personal elements of this watershed time. Many lesser writers have tried this and failed,” writes Meredith Maran for the Los Angeles Times. “Of the many books I’ve read (and written) on the topic—I lived in parallel to Prose’s 1960s–1970s life—none has matched Prose’s use of the personal to deepen the political and vice versa.”Visiting Professor of Literature Peter Filkins Receives Multiple Awards in Support of His Work
Peter Filkins, visiting professor of literature at Bard College and the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, has received three awards in support of his individual professional projects. Totaling more than €6,500, these awards and residencies will support his travel and the production of his upcoming book, A Biography of Ingeborg Bachmann (1923-1973).More News
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Stranger Love by Dylan Mattingly ’14 and Professor Thomas Bartscherer Among New York Times Best Classical Music Performances of 2023
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Bard College Professor Dina Ramadan Receives 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
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