Dictator by Philip Terry Chatto & Windus a recurrent leitmotif – ‘the

a recurrent leitmotif – ‘the woods are wondrous … but strange’

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

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

translated here from the German and collected for the first time

Dictator by Philip Terry Chatto & Windus a recurrent leitmotif – ‘theDictator 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