Babelguides: Ray Keenoy

Ray Keenoy

Works by Ray Keenoy

by Ray Keenoy

Watch out, there's a Hungarian about! As this lighthearted look at the phenomenon of famous Hungarians shows this is a small nation that has always punched well above its weight, playing a major role in innumerable fields, including; nuclear physics (Teller and Szilárd), (more...)

Babel Guide to Jewish Fiction (Babel Guides) [Buy Direct]

by Ray Keenoy and Saskia Brown and Mark Axelrod and European Jewish Publications Society

The Babel Guide to the Fiction of Portugal, Brazil & Africa in English Translation [Buy Direct]

by Ray Keenoy and Pat Odber and Tom Maccarthy and Maria-Manuela Lisboa and Maria-Amelia Dalsenter and Marina Coriolano-Lykourezos and Paul Hyland and David Treece and David Brookshaw and Carmo Ponte

Reviews by Ray Keenoy

Death in Rome [Buy Direct]

by Wolfgang Koeppen
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Original title: Tod in Rom

Steppenwolf [Buy Direct]

by Hermann Hesse
Translated by Basil Creighton
Original title: Der Steppenwolf

The Dollar and the Gun (1999) [Buy Direct]

by Shlomo Kalo
Translated by Philip Simpson

A book of thematically-related shorts mainly witten in abbreviated telegramese — ‘The Swiss

Powerful jaws

To pontificate as to chew...

A small race

A small country

Three languages

No wars

Banks, ch (more...)

The Man Who Planted Trees [Buy Direct]

by Jean Giono

A moving parable of a worthwhile life; that of Elzéard Bouffier, the ‘Johnny Appleseed’ of a deafforestated Provence who spends his time ranging over the barren hills raising and planting trees. He does this entirely on his own initiative, because he knows it simply needs to be done. (more...)

Silent Close No.6 [Buy Direct]

by Monika Maron
Translated by D N Marinelli
Original title: Stille Zeile Sechs

This ‘Silent Close’ is a pleasant tree-lined street where members of the East German Communist party elite live and the book is an unsympathetic inside view of that elite. (more...)

The Law [Buy Direct]

by Roger Vailland
Translated by Peter Wiles

A marvellous French novel, a well-deserved Goncourt Prize choice, about Italy, that special Italy once glorious and now rather notorious that lies south of Rome, a territory rife with corruption, feudalism, bigotry and emigration. (more...)

Nadja [Buy Direct]

by André Breton
Translated by Richard Howard

Nadja, by André Breton, who was one of the leading protagonists of Surrealism, emerged in 1928 as the first Surrealist novel or anti-novel. It’s heroine, Nadja, is a breathless creature who surfs the waves of chance that break on the beaches of the city. (more...)

Blitz and other stories (1950) [Buy Direct]

by Esther Kreitman
Translated by Dorothee Van Tendeloo
Original title: Yikhes

One family, the rather amazing Singers of Bilgoray, (Poland), produced three writers; the Nobel-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, his older brother Israel Joshua Singer, (more...)

Little Man what Now? [Buy Direct]

by Hans Fallada
Translated by Susan Bennett
Original title: Kleiner Mann was nun?

Jacob the Liar [Buy Direct]

by Jurek Becker
Translated by Melvin Kornfeld
Original title: Jakob der Lügner

Becker was a Jewish Pole who settled in East Germany and became a leading author there. Jakob the Liar is set in one of the ghettos created by the Nazis in occupied Poland by stuffing thousands of Jews into a barricaded part of a city with very little food and under various harsh regulations. (more...)

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