Posts Tagged with ‘Translation’
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Thinking in Other Languages
26 Apr 2014As a translator of Spanish literature into English who early on felt he was a different person when speaking Spanish…
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On Translation
16 Apr 2014As a part time practitioner of the great art of translation — mostly from Spanish to English– I am always…
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Leaping Linguals! Everything is Understood!
28 Oct 2013Just about my favorite place to be in the world –or in time– is at the annual conference of the…
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Afghan Landays — Women in the Shadows
24 Oct 2013In my dream I was the president. When I awoke, I was the beggar of the world. Ashaba, an…
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The Forge: Spain in the Second Decade of the 20th
18 Oct 2013The Forge by Arturo Barea has been on my Read-Next shelf for decades. I spent a very fruitful year in…
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Behind the Red Mist — Fiction from Vietnam
08 Apr 2013I first encountered Ho Anh Thai’s fiction at it’s fantastical best in the wonderful Whereabouts volume of Vietnam: A Traveller’s…
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To A Very Young Lady, Separated — A Poem, Jaime Gil de Biedma
25 Mar 2013To A Very Young Lady, Separated In the year since you married, sweet beautiful breasts, you have found the fruits…
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Reading Vietnam
02 Mar 2013Packed with my travel duffle for a 5 week trip to South East Asia is one of the indispensable series of books…
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Paradise of the Blind, a Novel from Vietnam, Duong Thu Huong
07 Jan 2013Paradise of the Blind (1988) is Duong Thu Huong’s second serious novel, following a series of popular short stories, a novel…
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Autumn Landscape, Hồ Xuân Hương, early 19th Century, Vietnam
12 Dec 2012Begining to think about a trip to South East Asia, including 12 days in Vietnam, I turned to a friend…
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The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, Vietnam
11 Dec 2012Bao Ninh’s convention shattering novel of war, The Sorrow of War, (1991/1994) opens at war’s end. Kien is in the…
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Cambodia: Through a Thief’s Eyes
08 Dec 2012The first I ever heard of Angkor Wat’s fabulous temple complex was reading Andre Malraux at a young age, probably…
