Published 2021. Paperback, 330pp, 9 x 6 ins, £16.95
ISBN 9781848617698 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]

Journey Around My Flat is the fourth in a series of five memoirs. Previous volumes are The Arithmetic of Memory (on growing up in Hampstead Garden Suburb), Silent Conversations (where the author draws on the books in his library to generate thoughts about reading and re-reading) and A Vanished Hand (a short illustrated account of his long-lost autograph album from the 1950s). The final volume is a work-in-progress: In the Picture: Office Hours at the Studio of Paula Rego , an account of the author’s ongoing close association with the painter since the two first met in 1996.
Journey Around My Flat continues his practice – in the footsteps of Georges Perec and other French writers – of using objects to trigger memories. Rudolf takes the reader on a guided tour of each room in the North London flat, where he has lived for forty years, and includes a generous supply of photos. The book – running parallel to Silent Conversations – is a chronological successor to The Arithmetic of Memory , which ended with the author about to leave for university.

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For more than five decades Anthony Rudolf has been active as translator and critic, poet and writer, editor and publisher. His translations include books of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy, Edmond Jabès, Claude Vigée and the Russian poet Evgeny Vinokurov, and works by Balzac and Jean Clair. Recent books of his own include Jerzyk , an annotated edition of the diary of his cousin, the youngest recorded suicide of the Holocaust. Rudolf’s collected poems, European Hours , was published in 2017.
Over the years he has contributed to several poetry anthologies and many journals including TLS, New Statesman, Modern Poetry in Translation, Jewish Quarterly, London Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, PN Review, Poetry Review, Paideuma, Fortnightly Review and RA Magazine . He is co-editor of the two-volume anthology of prose and poetry by Yves Bonnefoy. He was visiting lecturer at London Metropolitan University and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Westminster, and is also FRSL, FEA and Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
2021 will see the publication of his novella Pedraterra and a pamphlet-length essay on Isaac Rosenberg, The Binding of Isaac . He is working on a book about his correspondence with the painter Kitaj – to whose National Gallery catalogue he contributed an essay in 2002 – and preparing a critical edition of the little known translations by Ted Hughes of Yves Bonnefoy’s Théâtre de Douve .

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