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Sophus Helle 𓂆

@sophushelle.bsky.social

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Translator of Gilgamesh and Enheduana

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

My new podcast, MONKEY MIND, is out! It’s the podcast that brings you bite-sized audio essays — fifteen-minute episodes that are stuffed with stories and nuggets of knowledge. 1/4

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm especially honored to be part of the volume celebrating the 20th anniversary of David Damrosch's "What Is World Literature?", in such great company as @madsrt.bsky.social, Gisèle Sapiro, Francesca Orsini, Delia Ungureanu, and David Damrosch himself!

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New article out—open access! While World Literature celebrates the circulation of books, I survey literary works that, for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways, express their resistance to circulation. How do stories stick—or get stuck? brill.com/view/journal...

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Started work on The Descent of Inana. Very excited about this project. A strange text—so simple on the surface, so complex underneath...

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

just remembered this incredible drawing by Onfim, a Russian six-year-old kid who lived about 800 years ago and whose homework was serendipitously preserved in the frozen soil here, he depicts himself on horseback, killing his teacher

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Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

still the best review I've ever gotten

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