Description:
Journey Around My Flat is a memoir that, in the manner of Perec, uses objects to trigger memories. Rudolf takes the reader on a guided tour of each room in the North London flat where he has lived for forty years.
Brief description: For more than five decades Anthony Rudolf has been active as translator and critic, poet and writer, editor and publisher. His translations include books of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy, Edmond Jabès, Claude Vigée and the Russian poet Evgeny Vinokurov, and works by Balzac and Jean Clair. Recent books of his own include Jerzyk, an annotated edition of the diary of his cousin, the youngest recorded suicide of the Holocaust. Rudolf's collected poems, European Hours, was published in 2017. Over the years he has contributed to several poetry anthologies and many journals including TLS, New Statesman, Modern Poetry in Translation, Jewish Quarterly, London Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, PN Review, Poetry Review, Paideuma, Fortnightly Review and RA Magazine. He is co-editor of the two-volume anthology of prose and poetry by Yves Bonnefoy. He was visiting lecturer at London Metropolitan University and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Westminster, and is also FRSL, FEA and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. 2021 will see the publication of his novella Pedraterra, a pamphlet-length essay on Isaac Rosenberg, The Binding of Isaac, and the first English-language edition of Claudel's Partage de Midi.