{"id":70539,"date":"2014-04-30T09:28:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=70539"},"modified":"2014-04-30T13:14:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T17:14:07","slug":"ah-bless-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/ah-bless-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Bless, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_70541\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/heinrich_zille_die_witwe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70541\" class=\"wp-image-70541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/heinrich_zille_die_witwe.jpg\" alt=\"Heinrich_Zille_Die_Witwe\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heinrich Zille, <i>Die Witwe<\/i>, 1929.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=10932\" target=\"_blank\">The winners of this year\u2019s Best Translated Book Awards<\/a>: in fiction, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai\u2019s <em>Seiobo There Below<\/em>, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet; in poetry, Elisa Biagini\u2019s <em>The Guest in the Wood<\/em>, translated from the Italian by Diana Thow, Sarah Stickney, and Eugene Ostashevsky.<\/li>\n<li>Jenny Diski, bless her, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n09\/jenny-diski\/however-i-smell\" target=\"_blank\">on aging<\/a>, or something like it: \u201cI must accept that I was old because my hairdresser says, \u2018Ah, bless,\u2019 in response to whatever I say in answer to her questions. \u2018Are you busy today?\u2019 \u2018Just regular working.\u2019 \u2018Ah, bless.\u2019 \u2018How was the weekend?\u2019 \u2018A friend came to stay.\u2019 \u2018Ah, bless.\u2019 The other day, when she asked, I said: \u2018I\u2019m being interviewed by a journalist from Poland.\u2019 \u2018Ah, bless.\u2019 \u2026 The ah-bless alters or confirms whatever it\u2019s responding to, and in my mind\u2019s eye (altered and confirmed) I see a small, nondescript old lady going bravely about her business. There are other signs that I am no longer young, but the ah-bless is the most open and public.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In 1968, Charles Simic witnessed a group of disgruntled poets settle things the old-fashioned way\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2014\/apr\/23\/great-poets-brawl-68\/?insrc=wbll\" target=\"_blank\">with fisticuffs<\/a>. \u201cI stood on the porch watching in astonishment with the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra and the French poet Eug\u00e8ne Guillevic. They were delighted by the spectacle and assumed that this is how American poets always settled their literary quarrels; I tried to tell them that this was the first time I had seen anything like that and it scared the hell out of me, but they just laughed.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A series of photos compares <a href=\"http:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/2014\/04\/dieter-leistner\/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=Twitter#!GnslV\" target=\"_blank\">public spaces in North and South Korea<\/a>. (The shot of the Pyongyang Metro is especially poignant.)<\/li>\n<li>Guillaume Nicloux <a href=\"http:\/\/www.full-stop.net\/2014\/04\/29\/blog\/michael-schapira\/qa-with-guillaume-nicloux\/\" target=\"_blank\">discusses his new film<\/a>, <em>The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq<\/em>, starring, yes, Michel Houellebecq: \u201cHe is also really annoying to the captors. He is always asking for wine and cigarettes, he asks for another visit from the prostitute, he is really tiresome for them. He gets angry. He begs our sympathy, but at the same time he behaves really badly.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winners of this year\u2019s Best Translated Book Awards: in fiction, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai\u2019s Seiobo There Below, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet; in poetry, Elisa Biagini\u2019s The Guest in the Wood, translated from the Italian by Diana Thow, Sarah Stickney, and Eugene Ostashevsky. Jenny Diski, bless her, on aging, or something like it: \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[8769,13733,4743,13734,13737,13736,13738,13735,9800,822,191,2047,8505],"class_list":["post-70539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-aging","tag-best-translated-book-awards","tag-charles-simic","tag-elisa-biagini","tag-fighting","tag-growing-old","tag-guillaume-nicloux","tag-jenny-diski","tag-laszlo-krasznahorkai","tag-michel-houellebecq","tag-north-korea","tag-poets","tag-south-korea"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Morning News Roundup for April 30, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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