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[proximoception]

Some upcoming books:

May - The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, Bloom
August - Last Comes the Raven, Calvino
August - The Written World and the Unwritten World, Calvino
October - Conversations volume 2, Borges & Ferrari

Those two mysterious McCarthy books on .uk have been rescheduled for 2016.

Former of the two Calvinos is his first volume of stories from '49 or so. Most of the contents are reprinted from other English volumes, so it's mostly for completists. Early Calvino's way underrated, though, so I'll be happy to see the new stuff. Other volume is essays.

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[localcharacter.livejournal.com]

I think the Calvino stories are all new translations, by Ann Goldstein of Ferrante fame. Don't know whether that's a good thing or not.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

I'd read the opposite. The way his estate's run things so far is to retain prior translators' work when rereleasing, but perhaps they're tired of that? Nobody's going to dare translate over Weaver till Calvino's o.o.c., but I'm not sure if he did any Corvo stories.