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A Vanished Hand: My Autograph Album is a postscript to Anthony Rudolf's memoir of childhood, The Arithmetic of Memory (1999) and accompanies the newly published Silent Conversations: A Reader's Life. The autograph album, testimony to Rudolf's teenage years, was presumed lost for thirty years until it emerged, energies intact, beneath a pile of books in the author's loft. Describing the circumstances of each autograph, he is led down unexpected trails, such as a visit to Bushey Jewish Cemetery, where he explores the wording on Alma Cogan's tombstone, only a few yards from that of the author's parents. All the autographs are reproduced, among them Rudolf's summer hero, Denis Compton, and his winter hero Billy Wright. A high point is the hilarious account of the longest table tennis point ever played, triggered by the autograph of Alex Ehrlich. In addition to these three memoirs, Anthony Rudolf, born in London in 1942, has written several other books, most recently, Zigzag (2010), a volume of poetry and related prose. His writings include literary and art criticism, short stories under the narrative influence of Paula Rego and poetry translations from French and Russian. An occasional broadcaster, he was visiting lecturer in Arts and Humanities at London Metropolitan University and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Westminster. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the English Association, and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
A propos de l'auteur
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, a pamphlet-length essay on Isaac Rosenberg, The Binding of Isaac, and the first English-language edition of Claudel's Partage de Midi.
