Dictator by Philip Terry Chatto & Windus translated here from the German

translated here from the German and collected for the first time

There are glimpsed moments of the claustrophobic beauty of the wooded parts that contrast with the open expanses of uplifting countryside where the river meanders through woodland and farmland

a flower puts on the longest pearl necklace or kills you

the selection was made by O’Driscoll himself before his death in 2012 and includes revised

mindful and life-affirming book

Dictator by Philip Terry Chatto & Windus translated here from the GermanDictator recreates Gilgamesh using the 1,500 word vocabulary of Globish, put together by Jean Paul Nerrire. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to record business transactions. Nerrire considered it the world dialect of the third millenium; likewise Akkadian, the language of Gilgamesh, was the lingua franca of communications in the Near East. This link between script, language and business is