<<Given what you thought of Last Exit, I'm almost
afraid to
check it out. Am I remembering correctly that Manheim
translated some Brecht?>>
Yes, he did. He translated many books in a very long career.
I love his translation of the Grimm's tales and of Cassirer's
magnum opus The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. I don't know if
he translated any crime fiction.
As to _The Flounder_ (which is not a flounder but some other
kind of fish, as Manheim points out in his witty
introduction), it is a massive and complicated book,
disconcerting until you get into it. But it is not nearly as
complicated as Gaddis's _The Recognitions_. You may like this
book, but first drop all expectations.
Best,
MrT
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from old materials, but the battered tenement may, with care,
be long sustained by props" -- From Becklard's
Physiology.
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