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What Europeans Talk about when They Talk about Brexit

LRB Contributors: On Brexit, 3 January 2019

... on a surprisingly large spectrum of the opinion-forming elite, as well as on the public at large. Ottilie Mulzet Ireland‘There may be a risk of further frying the brains of the nation with Brexit information overload’ (Irish Independent, 11 December 2018).Border crossings: In mid-December, the Irish army mapped the 310-mile border between Northern ...

Germans don’t get toothache

Ange Mlinko: Krasznahorkai’s Antimatter, 20 March 2025

Herscht 07769 
by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet.
Tuskar Rock, 406 pp., £20, October 2024, 978 1 80081 505 6
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... When​ I first read László Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below, published in Ottilie Mulzet’s English translation in 2013, I thought I had discovered a sutra of a cult I had been unconsciously following for most of my life, a cult I had dimly perceived through museums and libraries but that now I could see was mystically systematised ...

Where Forty-Eight Avenue joins Petőfi Square

Jennifer Szalai: László Krasznahorkai, 26 April 2012

Sátántango 
by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes.
Atlantic, 320 pp., £12.99, May 2012, 978 1 84887 764 1
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... of szeretnék, which is the difference between ‘I would like to’ and ‘I love you’). Ottilie Mulzet, another of Krasznahorkai’s translators, notes that in Hungarian ‘an incredible amount of information can be expressed very tersely, in many fewer words than in English, and in addition, information can be encoded in other words (for ...

The Politics of Translation

Marina Warner: Translate this!, 11 October 2018

This Little Art 
by Kate Briggs.
Fitzcarraldo, 365 pp., £12.99, September 2017, 978 1 910695 45 6
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Translation as Transhumance 
by Mireille Gansel, translated by Ros Schwartz.
Les Fugitives, 150 pp., £10, November 2017, 978 0 9930093 3 4
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Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto 
by Mark Polizzotti.
MIT, 168 pp., £17.99, May 2018, 978 0 262 03799 0
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The 100 Best Novels in Translation 
by Boyd Tonkin.
Galileo, 304 pp., £14.99, June 2018, 978 1 903385 67 8
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The Work of Literary Translation 
by Clive Scott.
Cambridge, 285 pp., £75, June 2018, 978 1 108 42682 4
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... when I was young to László Krasznahorkai, more recently, in the versions of George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet, which read enthrallingly in English, though needless to say I have no way of knowing what the originals are like. Many celebrated translators, like Gansel, carry on adding to their linguistic crane bag: Michael Henry Heim, who worked on ...

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