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Douglas Robertson @shirtysleeves.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My translation of Ludwig Tieck's delightful comic novel Peter Lebrecht has just been published in the Empyrean Series of @sublunary.bsky.social and is available for purchase at @asterismbooks.bsky.social. asterismbooks.com/product/pete...
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Peter Lebrecht | Asterism Books
> “I surmise,” Father Boniface would often cry in rapturous enthusiasm, “that this boy will someday be a tutelary spirit and reformer of the orthodox Church, a sword in God’s hand brandished in defian...
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Douglas Robertson @shirtysleeves.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow, a collection of my translations of Thomas Bernhard's early short stories published by Seagull Books, is now in bookstores and available at Amazon. a.co/d/0b9yZfcu
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Douglas Robertson @shirtysleeves.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow, a collection of my translations of Thomas Bernhard's early short stories published by Seagull Books, is available for pre-order at Amazon. www.amazon.com/Seven-Fir-Tr...
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Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories (The German List)
Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories (The German List) [Bernhard, Thomas, Robertson, Douglas] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories (The German List)
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It is always great to hear of additions to this wonderful translation series. Here, to inspire all of you, is Mr. Bean enjoying some of recent acquisitions (he is also a Jean Paul fan).
Fluffy grey cat lounging on a blue-green sofa: in front of him three red books and one black and red book, Amy Levy's Collected Poems, Jean Paul Prefaces, Anecdoes, and Maria Wutz.
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Steve Mitchelmore @mitchelmore.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Early stories from Bernhard due later this year, translated by @shirtysleeves.bsky.social Really could do with Manfred Mittermayer's biography too.
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Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow
The book Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories, Thomas Bernhard is published by Seagull Books.
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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Rest Is Slander #thomasbernhard @shirtysleeves.bsky.social
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
A Seagull brought this: THEODOR W. ADORNO Orpheus in the Underworld Essays on Music beautifully translated by @shirtysleeves.bsky.social proofread by yours truly and published by Seagull www.seagullbooks.org/orpheus-in-t...
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Douglas Robertson @shirtysleeves.bsky.social · 27/07/2024
Orpheus in the Underworld, my translation of music-related essays by Theodor W. Adorno, has been published by Seagull Books and is available at Amazon. Orpheus in the Underworld: Essays on Music and Its Mediation (The German List) a.co/d/2bR0VvN
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Orpheus in the Underworld: Essays on Music and Its Mediation (The German List): Adorno, Theodor W., Robertson, Douglas: 9781803093222: Amazon.com: Books
Orpheus in the Underworld: Essays on Music and Its Mediation (The German List) [Adorno, Theodor W., Robertson, Douglas] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Orpheus in the Underworld: ...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
Henry James - Notebooks
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
'Oh art, art, what difficulties are like thine; but, at the same time, what consolation and encouragements, also, are like thine? Without thee, for me, the world would be, indeed, a howling desert.' Henry James - Notebooks [August 10th, 1885]
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
“Inhuman? That’s what the poets used to call the women a hundred years ago. Don’t try that; you won’t do as well as they!” Juliana declared. “There is no more poetry in the world—that I know of at least. #James24 #TheAspernPapers
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
'She became silent, as if she were thinking with a secret sadness of opportunities, forever lost, which ought to have been easy;' #James24 #TheAspernPapers
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Douglas Robertson @shirtysleeves.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
In the Paris Review today, an interview with Theodor W. Adorno from Orpheus in the Underworld, translated by me and forthcoming from Seagull Books in July. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/05...
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Televised Music Is a Pointless Rigmarole - The Paris Review
“The acme of wanton stupidity.”
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
sanskrit or: existentia animae fortlaufen.blogspot.com/2024/04/sans...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
belonging fortlaufen.blogspot.com/2024/04/belo...
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belonging
Aber es gibt ein Neues im Alten, dessen Sein damit, daß es war und ist, nicht erschöpft ist, ein Etwas, das uns fehlen kann, obgleich wir es...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
'Artworks participate in enlightenment because they do not lie: They do not feign the literalness of what speaks out of them.' Adorno - Aesthetic Theory
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
'Artworks detach themselves from the empirical world and bring forth another world, one opposed to the empirical world as if this other world too were an autonomous entity.' Adorno - Aesthetic Theory (tr Hullot-Kentor)
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
music adorno coming in june, translated by our @shirtysleeves.bsky.social www.seagullbooks.org/orpheus-in-t...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
'For my poems, stored deep like wines of precious vintage, I know a time will come.' Tsvetaeva Translation by David McDuff muurgedichten.nl/en/muurgedic...
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Douglas Robertson @shirtysleeves.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
An article on a performance of my translation of Thomas Bernhard's play Immanuel Kant at the Kant Tercentennial Gala in Baltimore last Friday: www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2024...
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Just pausing for a moment to admire the softbabby. 1961. digitaltmuseum.org/011013522549...
Black and white photo of a shorthaired white cat with black markings on its head and ears. It is being held aloft by white human hands against a dark grey background. It has a thoughtful, serene expression on its face.
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
if you are in the states: Sunday, March 10 Play Reading: "Immanuel Kant" by Thomas Bernhard Celebrate Kant's 300th birthday with a reading of the absurd and hilarious "Immanuel Kant" by Thomas Bernhard. with our @shirtysleeves.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/play-readi...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
'Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das Lebendigste,' Hoelderlin
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Beautifully translated by our @shirtysleeves.bsky.social
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
'Beneath the shell was an animal and behind the document there was a man. Why do you study the shell unless to form some idea of the animal?' Hippolyte Adolphe Taine -- Introduction to the History of English Literature
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
our first little pottery cat. who came to the pottery one day. she had no tail and was incontinent, this doesn't matter so much in the pottery bc you have to wipe the floor all the time anyway bc of the dust. we fed her and she stayed for a few months and then some day she was gone. she was v cute.
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
'Ad tertium dicendum quod beatitudo ipsa, cum sit perfectio animae, est quoddam animae bonum inhaerens. Sed id in quo beatitudo consistit, quod scilicet beatum facit, est aliquid extra animam, ut dictum est.' Aquinas - Summa I-II 2,8
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
'I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.' Gertrude Stein
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Plate 1ft diameter. The covid allowed making it which is good. Drying it on kiln which we can't open yet bc still 266C.
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Douglas Robertson @shirtysleeves.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
My first essay at an audio essay youtu.be/d9o8rhL7kSU?...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
xmas is coming ❄️ nice to receive @sublunary.bsky.social edition of lenz' country preacher beautifully translated by our @shirtysleeves.bsky.social
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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
At the Sublunary blog today, to mark the novella's recent publication, an excerpt from ‘The Country Preacher’ (1777) by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, tr. Douglas Robertson @shirtysleeves.bsky.social sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/the...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Le temps retrouvé (Ruiz) - final www.youtube.com/watch?v=l59D...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
'I have always been astonished that people who have heard Maria Callas have not been able to get beyond hearing in her an extraordinary voice subjected to every conceivable peril.' I Bachmann shirtysleeves.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-tr... @shirtysleeves.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Tr...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Adorno - Orpheus in the Underworld, forthcoming June 2024, translated by our @shirtysleeves.bsky.social , published by Seagull and proofread by yours truly. www.amazon.com/Orpheus-Unde...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
This very October: The Country Preacher by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, published by @sublunary.bsky.social translated by @shirtysleeves.bsky.social and proofread by yours truly
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Emma McNally - A River that flows nowhere, like a sea
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
today....
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