Issue Two / Spring 2013 (now available)
László Krasznahorkai / Béla Tarr / Max Neumann
From left to right: “Untitled,” 23 March 2011. 30x30cm. Mixed media on paper. ©Max Neumann; László Krasznahorkai, 2011. Photo: Olivier Roller; On the set of Sátántangó, 1994. Photo: Gábor Medvigy.
A global celebration of three of the most dynamic and starkly original artists working today
Music & Literature’s second issue, now available for pre-order, features new literature on and by László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr, and Max Neumann. This special volume presents, for the first time in English, an extensive selection of newly translated fiction spanning Krasznahorkai’s 28-year career, alongside an array of new appreciations and essays on his work by top critics and artists from around the world; a portfolio of photographs by cinematographer Gábor Medvigy, taken on-set while filming Tarr’s masterpiece Sátántangó; and 24 new paintings by renowned German artist Max Neumann, who previously collaborated with Krasznahorkai on the chapbook Animalinside (New Directions Books & Sylph Editions, 2010). An essential volume for the aficionado and the casual fan alike, Issue Two brings together an international community for a hearty nod to three of our finest living artists.
Guest Curator: Daniel Medin
ISSN: 2165-4026
ISBN: 978-0988879904
Format: Paperback / E-book edition forthcoming
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 6×9 in.
List price: $15USD US & Canada / $25USD International
Contents
Introduction / Jennifer Szalai
The Jerusalem Address / László Krasznahorkai, trans. Ottilie Mulzet
The Last Boat / László Krasznahorkai, trans. George Szirtes
About a Photographer / László Krasznahorkai, trans. George Szirtes
Photographs from the Filming of Sátántangó / Gábor Medvigy
At the Latest in Turin / László Krasznahorkai, trans. George Szirtes
Sukhumi, 1996 / Lenke Szilágyi
The Sukhum Photos / László Krasznahorkai, trans. George Szirtes
Retreat beneath the Earth! / László Krasznahorkai with Noémi Aponyi and Tibor Sennyey Weiner, trans. Ottilie Mulzet
Ze’ami Is Leaving (an excerpt from Seiobo There Below) / László Krasznahorkai, trans. Ottilie Mulzet
The Acropolis in Sunglasses / László Krasznahorkai with Péter Szivák, trans. Ottilie Mulzet
Commission for Evil / László Krasznahorkai with Péter Eötvös, trans. Ottilie Mulzet
The Liptószentmiklós Address / László Krasznahorkai, trans. Ottilie Mulzet
Twenty-four Recent Works / Max Neumann
Foreign Laughter : Foreign Music / George Szirtes
An Interview with Ottilie Mulzet / Scott Esposito
Sátántangó (Film and Novel) as Faulknerian Reverie / Jonathan Rosenbaum
Krasznahorkai’s Pilgrimages / Paul Kerschen
The Pythagorean Comma and the Howl of the Wolf / David Auerbach
The Universal Labyrinth / Justin Beplate
Toward Authority / Scott Esposito
A Conspiracy of Details / Antonio Werli, trans. Louise Rogers Lalaurie
Artists, Eccentrics, Solitaries, and Saints: On László Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below / Andreas Isenschmid, trans. Michael Hulse
About Gods Bereft of Their World / Sándor Radnóti, trans. Ivan Sanders
The Necessary Obstacle / Sergio Chejfec, trans. Margaret B. Carson
Pneumatic Neumann: Inside the Anim / Dan Gunn
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Issue One / Fall 2012
Arvo Pärt / Hubert Selby, Jr. / Micheline Aharonian Marcom
From left to right: Arvo Pärt at the Royal Academy of Music, London, 2000. Photo: Private Collection; Hubert Selby Jr.’s handwritten comments on notes made by Houghton Mifflin editor in response to a draft of THE DEMON. Houghton Mifflin rejected the novel, which was ultimately published by Playboy Press in 1976; Micheline Aharonian Marcom, 2003. Photo: Norma Quintana.
Featuring essays and tributes by Stig Sæterbakken, Paul Vangelisti, and Jordi Savall, among others, including the featured artists themselves, the debut issue of Music & Literature shines a spotlight on three consummate artists who have yet to receive their due in the Anglophone world: Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, American writer Hubert Selby, Jr., and Saudi-born writer Micheline Aharonian Marcom. This volume includes the world premiere of over 25 pages of manuscripts, notebooks, and scores from the private archives of Arvo Pärt, courtesy of the International Arvo Pärt Centre, as well as two lost interviews with Hubert Selby, Jr., courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives. We also present an extensive interview with Micheline Aharonian Marcom alongside excerpts from her forthcoming novel, The Nothing on Which the Fire Depends.
ISSN: 2165-4026
Format: Clothbound / E-book edition forthcoming
Pages: 174
Dimensions: 6×9 in.
List price: $15USD US & Canada / $25USD International
Section 1: On Arvo Pärt
Why I Always Listen to Such Sad Music / Stig Sæterbakken, trans. Stokes Schwartz
A Conversation with Arvo Pärt / Jordi Savall, trans. Taylor Davis-Van Atta & Katherine Linton
The Cradle of Tintinnabuli: 30 Years after the Historic Concert / Immo Mihkelson, trans. Robin Hazlehurst
Original 26 October 1976 program / Arvo & Nora Pärt, trans. Shushan Avagyan
Notebooks and Manuscripts from the Crisis Period Leading to Tintinnabuli / Arvo & Nora Pärt
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa / Lothar Mattner, trans. Isabel Cole
The Unification of Opposites: the Tintinnabuli Style in the Light of the Philosophy of Nicolaus Cusanus / Leopold Brauneiss, trans. Robert Crow
The Summa by Arvo Pärt / Saale Kareda
Section 2: On Hubert Selby, Jr.
The Room Reconsidered: Afterthoughts on Selby’s Style / Richard Wertime
Remembrance of Cubby / Paul Vangelisti
Two Lost Interviews with Hubert Selby, Jr. / Paul Vangelisti
Psychic Vengeance in Last Exit to Brooklyn / Richard Wertime
Section 3: On Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Reading Micheline Aharonian Marcom / Shushan Avagyan
A Conversation with Micheline Aharonian Marcom / Taylor Davis-Van Atta
Excerpts from The Nothing on Which the Fire Depends / Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Marcom & the Possibilities of Language / Taylor Davis-Van Atta
A Reading of The Mirror in the Well / Tatiana Ryckman
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