“Be careful with Clarice,” the writer’s friend warned a reader. “It’s not literature, it’s witchcraft.” Clarice Lispector was born not so very far away from Kafka and Schulz, and you can tell. That particular magically impossible way of weaving a…
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Bessarabian Stamps are not postcards, but even smaller messages, from a place between so many places that you’d be forgiven for not quite remembering where it is. The author grew up in Bessarabia, on the border of what is now the Republic…
Tagged with: Bessarabia, Boris Drayluk, Bruno Schulz, Moldova, Oleg Woolf, Phoneme, Russian, Translation
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Posted in books, short stories, translation
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