Today is Gabriel Josipovici's 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, I'll link to various posts I've written over the years – after a brief…
This is a novel about a translator who moves from London to Paris after the death of his first wife and then to Wales with his second wife, from wher…
What draws me back to Thomas Bernhard's novels is the wish to appreciate again how each is set in motion. The Loser begins like this. Even Gle…
“ There is an element, in any good novel, of something that cannot be taken away without dissolving the whole book. If you remove everything else, t…
The main reason I still write this blog is to maintain a contact with the need or condition that drove me to read and write in the first place; a nee…
Revue LISA, a print journal published by the University of Rennes, has a very welcome edition dedicated to the work of Gabriel Josipovici . It is als…
Jesus was not your everyday literary critic. Luke tells of his teaching in a synagogue: And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and,…
Musician John Harmer writes: "I read in Gabriel Josipovici's wonderful novel Infinity: The Story of a Moment about a piece composed by …
The composer Tancredo Pavone is sure of his quest: “The centre of the sound is the heart of the sound. One must always strive to reach the heart of t…
You write about Bellow's transformation from a minor to a major writer—“that readiness to follow where instinct seems to lead, which is perhap…
“It is not every day one is sent a masterpiece to review”, wrote Gabriel Josipovici in reviewing WG Sebald's The Emigrants ; “(I suppose one …