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Clarice: Kafkaesque witchcraft from Rio

Posted on 16 August 2016 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

“Be careful with Clarice,” the writer’s friend warned a reader. “It’s not literature, it’s witchcraft.” Clarice Lispector was born not so very far away from Kafka and Schulz, and you can tell. That particular magically impossible way of weaving a…

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Jamala: Crimean Tatar in translation

Posted on 16 May 2016 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

Eurovision 2016, almost everyone is singing in English (even the French!!!) and a Crimean Tatar wins, singing the chorus in a language that isn’t even available on Google Translate. Because she sings with passion about her people, who were forcibly…

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