Posts Tagged with ‘Translation’
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Novel Without A Name: of Vietnam, A Man, A Country and A War
30 Nov 2012Beginning to prepare for a February trip to South East Asia I do what I always do — read. What…
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Oblomov: The Greatest Russian Novel You’ve Never Heard Of
23 Nov 20121842 to 1880: what a forty years for readers of literary masterworks! Beginning with Gogol’s Dead Souls and ending with…
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Under Fire: A French Novel of WW I Trenches
14 Nov 2012Although All Quiet on the Western Front is the best known, and possibly the best written, novel of soldiers…
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Storm of Steel: Another German’s View of the Trenches, WW I
31 Aug 2012World War I was the bloody birthing ground for war literature, both of the trenches and the years of recovery.…
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Breaking Knees – Stories from Syria by Zakaria Tamer
25 Aug 2012Syria is in the news, unhappily. Citizens are fleeing the fighting and overwhelming the resources in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.…
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Message of Love from Valdemar Gris — Miguel Labordeta
29 Jul 2012MESSAGE OF LOVE FROM VALDEMAR GRIS by Miguel Labordeta From my own man sadness wrenched out in bits of bitter…
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Cities of Salt: The Trench — The Pit in the Desert
28 Jul 2012Abdelrahman Munif‘s trilogy,* Cities of Salt is one of those era-defining efforts of literary imagination and craft. It has been called…
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The Mirror – a Poem, Jose Angel Valente
25 Jul 2012The Mirror Jose Angel Valente Today I saw my face, so unfamiliar, so strange and fallen in this mirror. It…
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Cities Of Salt: Wadi No More
24 Jul 2012Cities of Salt, a sweeping trilogy* of novels, and particularly the first, with the same name, by Abdelrahman Munif does…
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A Mind at Peace — But Not So We’d Know it; A Novel from Turkey
04 Jun 2012There is the old adage ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say it at all’ which is at least…
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Destiny – A Poem, Miquel Labordeta
25 May 2012You know my friends we won’t be back again,. The virtue of the rain is annihilated in the suns and…
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Swords of Ice: A Modern Novel from Turkey
24 May 2012When we move from country to country, culture to culture we recognize many things in their generalities: carpets, clothes, foods,…
