The three sisters sit at the window. From the apartment across the way, their faces are lit up, as in a (rather famous, rather older) portrait. The narrator watches them from her living room window is like a spy; she…
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People in the Room
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Argentina, books, Charlotte Whittle, Norah Lange, People in the Room, Spanish, Translation
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Posted in books, translation
Extracting the stone of madness
Extracting the Stone of Madness, Hieronymus Bosch c. 1494, Museo del Prado, Madrid Surgery to ‘treat’ mental illness 500 years ago was no joke. You would have a hole drilled into your skull to take the madness out. Is this what Alejandra…
The Proof
Mostly, I’m just really glad I’m not sixteen any more. The crushing insecurity then is exacerbated by 24/7 bullying on social media now – not to mention the knife crime, the violence, who’d want it? Marcia doesn’t seem to like it much…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Argentina, Buenos Aires, César Aira, Mao (not that one), Nick Caistor, PEN Translation Prize, Short Story Project, Spanish, The Proof, Translation
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Posted in books, translation
Transatlantic – unpacking Gombrowicz’s baggage
“My work is very chic, like a luggage set: the large suitcase, my novels; two medium-sized cases, my Diary and my plays; the small case, my short stories.” (Witold Gombrowicz) Danuta Borchardt’s translation of Gombrowicz’s Transatlantyk is on the PEN Translation Prize Longlist. Yet again she…
Tagged with: Argentina, Czesław Miłosz, Danuta Borchardt, Gombrowicz, PEN Translation Prize, Polish, Transatlantic, Translation
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Posted in literature, translation
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