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The Uncommercial Traveller: August 2015
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Comments and reflections on travel, or on reading. Sometimes even both. Saturday, 22 August 2015. Things you didn't know about Nikolaus Pevsner. Stephen Games: Pevsner: The Early Life: Germany and Art. Games has an excellent idea - to fill in the bits we don't know about Pevsner. What was Pevsner's German background? How did he become a symbol of a very British attitude to English art? How much did he know about England (and English art) when he arrived in the UK in 1933? Who were the Kurlbaum sisters?
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The Uncommercial Traveller: World's most uncomfortable concert hall?
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Comments and reflections on travel, or on reading. Sometimes even both. Wednesday, 29 July 2015. World's most uncomfortable concert hall? Last night I went to a concert in Cambridge. Great music, great musicians (two string quartets, joining forces to play the Mendelssohn Octet as the main piece), but what a venue! The concert took place in Trinity College Chapel - my candidate for the world's most uncomfortable and inconvenient concert hall. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Tweets by @michael upshall.
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The Uncommercial Traveller: Let's knock Stefan Zweig
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Comments and reflections on travel, or on reading. Sometimes even both. Monday, 15 June 2015. Let's knock Stefan Zweig. A review of Zweig's Collected Stories in the TLS. February 2014) points out that Zweig's reputation has undergone a huge swing both during his lifetime up to the present day. Zweig was highly admired during his lifetime, but his reputation declined after his death in 1942. Since the 1990s he has been widely reprinted. It was your fault! Zweig wished, it seems, to be the people he create...
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The Uncommercial Traveller: December 2013
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Comments and reflections on travel, or on reading. Sometimes even both. Monday, 30 December 2013. The ten laws of Bond. Even though (as Skyfall. Perhaps the best way to summarise Bond is to attempt to compile the laws of Bond, just as Andreas Capellanus (Andre the chaplain) did back in 1184 when he formulated the 31 rules of love (in his Tractatus de Amore). Here, then, are the ten laws of Bond:. Friday, 20 December 2013. Strengths there are without doubt. Cobbett was clearly a wonderful journalist, ...
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The Uncommercial Traveller: July 2013
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Comments and reflections on travel, or on reading. Sometimes even both. Sunday, 21 July 2013. What was so special about the Dutch 17th century? By him with interest. What claims did he make for the 17th-century United Provinces? Friday, 19 July 2013. Going Dutch: the book. Does Ms Jardine examine this flexibility of attitude on the part of Huygens? Saturday, 13 July 2013. Going literally Dutch: the editing. Lisa Jardines well-produced book Going Dutch. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Going Dutch: the book.
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The Uncommercial Traveller: June 2015
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Comments and reflections on travel, or on reading. Sometimes even both. Monday, 15 June 2015. Let's knock Stefan Zweig. A review of Zweig's Collected Stories in the TLS. February 2014) points out that Zweig's reputation has undergone a huge swing both during his lifetime up to the present day. Zweig was highly admired during his lifetime, but his reputation declined after his death in 1942. Since the 1990s he has been widely reprinted. It was your fault! Zweig wished, it seems, to be the people he create...
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The Uncommercial Traveller: August 2013
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Comments and reflections on travel, or on reading. Sometimes even both. Sunday, 4 August 2013. Not that it had ever been finished. The church itself has a very strange shape. There are a few bays of the nave, and a magnificent facade, but the choir seems to be almost an apology, and the church is truncated with a vengeance. Inside, you read that bombing in 1940 took the roof off and much else. So it's amazing that there is anything standing from the church at all. 181 For here I saw that art (of its loca...
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The Uncommercial Traveller: What makes a translation from French "standard"
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Comments and reflections on travel, or on reading. Sometimes even both. Thursday, 20 November 2014. What makes a translation from French "standard". I bought a new copy of The Three Musketeers. The Wikipedia entry for Dumas mentions this translation approvingly (but without any justification):. Well, if Wikipedia says this is now the standard translation, it must be, surely? P499 “Two times you have nearly fallen victim” [deux fois] – how about “twice”? P410 “A superb Andalusian horse, black as jad...
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The Uncommercial Traveller: The Life of Benvenuto Cellini – a new (and not very inspiring) view of the Renaissance artist
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Comments and reflections on travel, or on reading. Sometimes even both. Friday, 4 July 2014. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini – a new (and not very inspiring) view of the Renaissance artist. Benvenuto Cellini’s Life must be one of the most boastful autobiographies ever written. Whether writing about his art, or about his fighting, he is determined to let you know he is the best. So what becomes now of the Renaissance humanist, the sublime Renaissance artist? This is where it becomes interesting. It was ...
