Underlying Rhythm

Peter Constantine is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Connecticut. Robert Cowan is Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. Henry N. Gifford is a freelance copy editor and writer. Genese Grill is a Musil scholar, translator, essayist, and former student of Burton Pike. James Keller is Adjunct Assistant Professor of German at Pasadena City College in California, a translator, and former student of Burton Pike.

Contents: Introduction – An Interview with Burton Pike – Growing Up in Language and Music: An Interview with Burton Pike – With All the Senses: A Translation of Klaus Mann’s "Gimietto" with Commentary – Short Prose from Contemplation by Franz Kafka, with Commentary – Translation of a Passage from Madame Bovary, with Commentary – An Ode to Rome, and a Translation of Lucio Mariani’s "Roman Ode" – Letters on The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil – Armand de Kroullosta: Thomas Mann’s Confessions of the Confidence Man—A Lecture – The City as TK – Accessing Ludwig Hohl – Arnheim and His Discontents in Musil’s The Man without Qualities – The Birth of Modern Czech Out of the Spirit of the Austrian Enlightenment – Diderot and Musil: Negative Capability as Ironic Acting – Pre- Existing Conditions: The Diseased Urban Self in Andrei Bitov’s The Pushkin House – The Utopia of Metaphor as Translation – The Art of Betrayal: Translation in an Age of Suspicion – Acceptance Speech for the Friedrich Ulfers Prize, 2016 – Laudation for Burton Pike as He Is Awarded the 2016 Friedrich Ulfers Prize [Adapted and Updated in 2022] – Stalking the Ineffable – A Tribute to Burt Pike – Celebrating Burton Pike – Burton Pike in Vienna, circa 1994 – Reminiscence – A Mental Desk with Many Drawers – Tribute.