Tim Parks
Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas.
From the Review
July 16, 2009: In the Kangaroo's Pouch
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
April 30, 2009: Knock on Wood
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock, with an introduction by Umberto Eco and an afterword by Rebecca West
February 12, 2009: The Dark in the Piazza
Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante by Lily Tuck
House of Liars by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by Adrienne Foulke, with the editorial assistance of Andrew Chiappe
History by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by William Weaver and with a foreword by Lily Tuck
Aracoeli by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by Isabel Quigly
September 25, 2008: 'The Knife by the Handle at Last'
Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing by Doris Lessing
Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father’s House by Miranda Seymour
The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
House Rules by Rachel Sontag
Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner
April 17, 2008: The Fantasy Family
The Gathering by Anne Enright.
January 17, 2008: Family Secrets
ABC: A Novel by David Plante
The Francoeur Family: The Family, The Woods, The Country by David Plante
Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three by David Plante
Annunciation by David Plante
October 11, 2007: 'How to Read Elfriede Jelinek': An Exchange
July 19, 2007: How To Read Elfriede Jelinek
Greed by Elfriede Jelinek, translated from the German by Martin Chalmers
Women as Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek, translated from the German by Martin Chalmers
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel
Wonderful, Wonderful Times by Elfriede Jelinek, translated from the German by Michel Hulse
Lust by Elfriede Jelinek, translated from the German by Michael Hulse
April 12, 2007: Doom and Thomas Hardy (letter)
March 1, 2007: Return of the Master
Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin
January 11, 2007: The Genius of Bad News
Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian by Gitta Honegger
Frost by Thomas Bernhard, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
July 13, 2006: Beckett: Still Stirring
Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition edited by Paul Auster, with introductions by Colm Tóibìn, Salman Rushdie, Edward Albee, and J.M. Coetzee
How It Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett by Anne Atik
Beckett After Beckett edited by S.E. Gontarski and Anthony Uhlmann
Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett: A Centenary Celebration edited by James and Elizabeth Knowlson
December 1, 2005: The Horrors of War
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno, with an afterword by Dan Hofstadter
October 20, 2005: Bassani's Father (letter)
July 14, 2005: On 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'
June 9, 2005: Looking Forward to the Past
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco, translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
April 7, 2005: The Illusionist
Mussolini: A New Life by Nicholas Farrell
Mussolini by R.J.B. Bosworth
On the Fiery March: Mussolini Prepares for War by G. Bruce Strang
November 4, 2004: 'A Bad Start'? (letter)
May 27, 2004: Tyrol: Retreat to Reality
South Tyrol: A Minority Conflict of the Twentieth Century by Rolf Steininger
Ohne meinen Segen: Die Lebenserinnerungen der Unterfurner Bäuerin by Adelheid Vorhauser Rabensteiner
The History of the South Tyrol Question by Antony Evelyn Alcock
Die Walsche by Joseph Zoderer
Südtirol im Dritten Reich/L'Alto Adige nel Terzo Reich, 1943–1945 edited by Gerald Steinacher
February 12, 2004: Love Letter
SS Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen
November 6, 2003: The Outsider's Art
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by R.W. Flint, and with an introduction by Mark Rudman
The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese translated from the Italian and with an introduction by R.W. Flint
Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950 by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
An Absurd Vice: A Biography of Cesare Pavese by Davide Lajolo, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Mario and Mark Pietralunga
Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935–1950 by Cesare Pavese, edited by Marziano Guglielminetti and Laura Nay, with an introduction by Cesare Segre
The Harvesters by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by A.E. Murch
September 25, 2003: The Fighter
D.H. Lawrence: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
The Letters of D.H. Lawrence: Volume 8 edited by James T. Boulton
The Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence edited by Anne Fernihough
Body of Truth: D.H. Lawrence: The Nomadic Years, 1919–1930 by Philip Callow
Living at the Edge: A Biography of D.H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen by Michael Squires and Lynn K. Talbot
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
The Complete Critical Guide to D.H. Lawrence by Fiona Becket
May 1, 2003: Mad at the Medicis
April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici by Lauro Martines
December 19, 2002: The Cosimos
Cosimo de' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance by Dale Kent
The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence by Cristina Acidini Luchinat and eleven others
October 24, 2002: Tales Told by the Computer
July 18, 2002: Soccer: A Matter of Love and Hate
April 25, 2002: Boccaccio and the Ladies
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio,edited and translated from the Latin by Virginia Brown
December 20, 2001: The Luck of Letty Fox
October 18, 2001: Berlusconi's Way
L'odore dei soldi (The Smell of Money) by Marco Travaglio
Social Identities and Political Cultures in Italy: Catholic, Communist and Leghist Communities Between Civicness and Localism by Anna Cento Bull
Italian Politics 1998: The Return of Politics edited by David Hine and Salvatore Vassallo
L'Italia che ho in mente (The Italy I Have in Mind) by Silvio Berlusconi
Italian Politics 1999: The Faltering Transition edited by Mark Gilbert and Gianfranco Pasquino
April 26, 2001: Borges and His Ghosts
Selected Non-Fictions Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Eliot Weinberger, translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger
January 11, 2001: A Chorus of Cruelty
November 30, 2000: On 'Party Going'
September 21, 2000: The Non-Conformist
Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism: Art and Politics Under Fascism by Emily Braun
June 15, 2000: The Hunter
Vertigo by W.G. Sebald, Translated from the German by Michael Hulse
March 23, 2000: In Love with Leopardi
Leopardi: A Study in Solitude by Iris Origo
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo
All'apparir del vero: Vita di Giacomo Leopardi by Rolando Damiani
February 24, 2000: In the Locked Ward
Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival by Jay Neugeboren
Transforming Madness by Jay Neugeboren
January 20, 2000: Perils of Translation
October 7, 1999: Unlocking the Mind's Manacles
Storie permesse, storie proibite: polarità semantiche familiari e psicopatologie by Valeria Ugazio
July 15, 1999: Sentimental Education
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
May 6, 1999: Gods & Monsters
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
February 18, 1999: Sightgeist
Blindness by José Saramago, Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
February 4, 1999: A Prisoner's Dream: Eugenio Montale in Translation
Collected Poems 1920-1954 by Eugenio Montale, translated and annotated by Jonathan Galassi
May 26, 1994: Walking in Trieste (letter)
March 24, 1994: Worth a Detour
A Ghost in Trieste by Joseph Cary, drawings by Nicholas Read
From New York Review Books
 | Letty Fox: Her Luck This vast Flemish canvas of a novel, full of strikingly realistic likenesses and unforgettable grotesques, is a major work by one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth century. |
 | Contempt All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. |
Books by Tim Parks
A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and...Goals! (2002)
Hell and Back (2002)
Adult-Ery and Other Diversions (1999)
Destiny (1999)
Europa (1997)
Translating Style: The English Modernists and Their Italian Translations (1997)
An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona (1995)
Mimi's Ghost (1995)
Shear (1994)
Italian Neighbors, Or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona (1992)
Goodness (1991)
Family Planning (1989)
Home Thoughts (1987)
Loving Roger (1986)
Tongues of Flame (1986)