Nice thread on the Dalkey Archive Facebook, featuring interviews with authors from their Best European Fiction 2010: Julian Gough, “Any decent writer is playing with nuances, rhythms, echoes, soundstuff that will evaporate in any literal translation. I like a lot of layers. Puns, resonances, double-meanings, Tipperaryisms, things my mum says at Christmas. Often the point of the sentence hasn’t anything to do with its literal meaning at all.”

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