Mark Polizzotti: 4 books

An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't. For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation...

In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years—shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes...

Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone," his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez?...

Seit 50 Jahren dreht sich nun schon Highway 61 Revisited auf den Plattentellern der Welt, aber Mark Polizzottis Buch zeigt all das auf, was man bisher überhört hat. Mit seinen durchdachten und kompetenten Analysen fasst er das Wissen über das Album zusammen und fügt neue Ideen und Details hinzu....