Goethe, responsible for Victorian pteridomania?
The disastrous horticultural consequences of fucked literary translation.
Category: Poets
Spain and the correct relationship between man and dog
Away with those canine metaphors! More Cela in translation!
Les pervertis de Santander
Archaic French erotic pulp, plugging Cantabria’s gaping literary hole?
Some thoughtful football commentary
Daily Mail confuses Rudyard Kipling with George MacDonald Fraser
A spurious demonic etymology of “Andaluz”
Taken from a 17th century play which has the devil fly a student over Madrid and reveal to him its innermost secrets.
How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited
Some historical advice from an Irish perspective for Esperanza Aguirre on the pitfalls of attempting to demonstrate by symbolic means the virile and libertarian spirit of Madrid in the invented and regrettable conflict between it and doldrummed Barcelona.
The storks of war
A fragment from Italo Calvino’s quasi-17th century folk romance, Il visconte dimezzato/The cloven viscount, uses storks as a portent of battle. Several unconnected 2nd century Greek accounts might appear to do the same, perhaps particularly if one’s a lazy sod and doesn’t read anything but scraps of stuff on Google Books.
Why they didn’t find Lorca
Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.