Manfred Macmillan: Book One of the Three Magicians Trilogy - Brossura

Bulkin, Carleton; Baer, Brian James; Karįsek Ze Lvovic, Jirķ

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ISBN 10: 1943208794 ISBN 13: 9781943208791

Casa editrice: Amherst College Press, 2024

Riassunto

Decadence meets gothic in Manfred Macmillan (1907), a carefully constructed tale of doppelgangers, magical intrigue, and the rootless scion of a noble house. This annotated, first-ever English translation presents an early queer novel long unavailable except in the original Czech. Author Jiřķ Karįsek ze Lvovic (1871–1951) was a major cultural figure in his native Bohemia and cultivated ties with fellow artists from across Central Europe. In their extensive scholarly introduction, translator Carleton Bulkin and translation scholar Brian James Baer situate the novel within longer histories of gay literature, fascinations with the occult, and the cultural and linguistic politics of so-called peripheral European nations. They persuasively frame Karįsek as a queer author and cultural disruptor in the fin de sičcle Habsburg space.

Karasék rejected Czech translations of ancient Greek writers that bowdlerized gay themes, and he personally and vigorously defended Oscar Wilde in print, both on the grounds of artistic freedom and of private morality. He also published a cycle of homoerotic poems under the title Sodom, confiscated by the Austrian authorities but republished in 1905 and repeatedly afterward. A colonized subject, a literary decadent, and a sexual outlaw, Karasék’s complex responses to his own marginalization can be traced through his fantastically strange novel trilogy Three Magicians. As the first volume in that series, Manfred Macmillan is a gorgeous, compelling, and important addition to expanding canons of LGBTQI+ literature.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Carleton Bulkin is a private scholar and translator who holds a master’s degree in Slavic languages and literatures from Indiana University. He has lived in Prague, Havana, Moscow, Budapest, Kabul, Rabat, Jeddah, and the Washington D.C. area. Among his publications is the first bidirectional Dari-English/English-Dari dictionary. He currently resides in Seattle.

Brian James Baer is professor of Russian and translation studies at Kent State University. His recent publications include Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire (Routledge). He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies and coeditor of book series on translation studies for Bloomsbury and Routledge.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Amherst College Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1943208794
• ISBN 13: 9781943208791
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 341
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile