https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/issue/feed Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature 2025-06-10T13:08:41-04:00 Gabriele Belletti g.belletti@ufl.edu Open Journal Systems <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"><a href="https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/CFP23">Call for Papers</a></div> <div class="column"> </div> <div class="column"><em>Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature </em>is now in its third series. Its editorial staff are from the University of Florida, as are many of those serving on its board and realizing each new volume. We welcome contributions from anywhere in the world.</div> </div> <div class="column"> </div> <div class="column"> <blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>Delos, if you … have the temple of far-shooting Apollo, all men will bring you hecatombs and gather here, and incessant savor of rich sacrifice will always arise, and you will feed those who dwell in you from the hand of strangers.</p> <div class="templatequotecite"><cite>— <em>Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo</em> 51–60</cite></div> </blockquote> </div> https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3104 Preface 2025-06-06T11:09:53-04:00 Gabriele Belletti journals@upress.ufl.edu Benjamin Hebblethwaite journals@upress.ufl.edu Richard Gray journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>We are pleased to present<em> Delos</em> 39.2, which continues the journal’s commitment to fostering dialogue among languages, cultures, and literary traditions. This issue features a rich selection of essays, translations, and reviews exploring a diverse array of authors and themes. Many of the contributions stem from the Call for Submissions launched in issue 38.2, which initiated an in-depth reflection on topics such as Environmental Literature, the Literature of Migration, and Artificial Intelligence. At the same time, Delos maintains its open and interdisciplinary nature, welcoming contributions that span various genres and critical approaches, in keeping with the journal’s spirit.</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3116 Notes on Contributors 2025-06-06T13:19:55-04:00 Delos Editors journals@upress.ufl.edu 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3105 Passage. Kammerspiel 2025-06-06T11:21:48-04:00 Christoph Hein journals@upress.ufl.edu Henry Pickford journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>The chamber play <em>Passage</em> by the East Berlin author Christoph Hein was originally published in 1987 in the GDR’s theater journal, Theater der Zeit, and has been reprinted several times since. It opened nearly simultaneously in Dresden, Essen, and Zürich in the fall of 1987 and had its US premiere in Las Vegas, in an earlier version of this translation, in November 2017.</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/2610 Amurgul Gîndurilor 2024-05-25T10:51:21-04:00 William Sayers ws36@cornell.edu Emil Mihai Cioran journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>Emil Mihai Cioran wrote <em>Amurgul gîndurilor </em>(<em>The Twilight of Thoughts</em>) in Paris in the 1930s as one of his last works, along with <em>Îndreptar patimaş </em>(<em>The Passionate Handbook</em>), in his native Romanian before switching to French<em> (Amurgul </em><em>gîndurilor</em>, Sibiu: Dacia Traiana, 1940). This may have been not so much for the supposed greater analytic clarity of French prose as an escape from the mindset of an unreflected-on native language with its inevitable conceptual constraints.&nbsp; &nbsp;These final Romanian texts are rightly seen as harbingers of what was to come in his work written in French.</p> 2025-06-06T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3107 Thinking Fish in the Water 2025-06-06T12:06:50-04:00 Deborah Amberson journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>The intensity of the relationship between fish and water emerges forcefully in the small selection of English language poems that form the literary corpus for this essay. These well-known poems, dating from 1923 to 1983, include Lawrence’s aforementioned “Fish,” the poem on which I will focus most intensely, Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish,” and three of Ted Hughes’s poems: “Pike,” “October Salmon,” and “Salmon Eggs.” Across these poetic works, fish are characterized by a tenacious vitality that opens on to an alterity at once ontological, epistemological, and temporal. These poetic pike and salmon, by turns aloof, sensuous, noble, fatalistic, and menacing, offer a telling unfathomability that captivates the poets as much as it estranges. It is precisely this unfathomability that makes the human attempt to grasp fish essence or fishness such a critical issue within animal studies and the environmental humanities. Engaging with aquatic life forces us to pose those crucial questions that Kari Weil formulates as follows: “how to understand and give voice to others or to experiences that seem impervious to our means of understanding; how to attend to difference without appropriating or distorting it.” Together Lawrence, Bishop, and Hughes attempt this work of engagement with fish being or what it is to live as a fish, succeeding, at times, in their efforts to “attend to difference,” but also failing frequently, and, more importantly, failing in ways that illuminate humanity’s efforts to engage with animal alterity as a whole.</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3108 A Sceno do Odio 2025-06-06T12:19:21-04:00 José de Almada-Negreiros journals@upress.ufl.edu David Swartz journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>José Sobral de Almada-Negreiros was born on April 7, 1893 in the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe. He was a multidisciplinary artist whose extraordinary work as a poet and painter have had a lasting influence on Portuguese culture. In addition to literature and painting, Almada-Negreiros also created ballet choreographies, tapestries, engravings, murals, caricatures, mosaics, azulejo paintings, and stained-glass work.</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/2647 “Uma Simples Flor nos Teus Cabelos Claros” 2024-07-04T17:13:42-04:00 Paul Melo e Castro paul.castro@glasgow.ac.uk José Cardoso Pires journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>English translation of 'Uma simples flor nos teus cabelos claros' by José Cardoso Pires.</p> 2025-06-06T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3109 Exploring a World of Tranquility and Freedom 2025-06-06T12:30:38-04:00 Lan Du journals@upress.ufl.edu Yuan Tao journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>Lan Du, an emerging novelist from Inner Mongolia in northern China, is known for her magical realism, modern narrative, and imaginative style. “Uneg the Fool Disappeared” is a short story first published in <em>Harvest</em> (2019), the premier literary journal in China. The tale blends poetic language and vivid imagination, weaving together elements of vitality and languor to create a unique narrative tapestry. Set against the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, a place teeming with untamed beauty and natural vigor, the story centers on Uneg, an alienated protagonist. Born with an inherent wildness and primal force, Uneg encounters hostility from townsfolk who fear change and nature. The narrative follows a destiny marked by the theme of “alienation-conflict-return to nature.”</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3110 “Nuits partagées” by Paul Éluard 2025-06-06T12:38:06-04:00 Paul Éluard journals@upress.ufl.edu Ross Belot journals@upress.ufl.edu Sara Burant journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>Paul Éluard (1895–1952) authored more than thirty poetry collections, including <em>Capitale de la douleur</em> (1926) and <em>La rose publique</em> (1934). With André Breton, Éluard coauthored the seminal surrealist work L’immaculeé conception (1930). He also published short collections in which his poetry is accompanied by the visual art of surrealist artists such as Max Ernst, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso. In addition, he wrote essays and produced anthologies and translations. Along with André Breton, Phillipe Soupault, and Louis Aragon, he developed the surrealist movement as it grew out of Dadaism and remained steadfast in his commitment to it until 1938, when he left the movement. A veteran of World War I, during the 1920s and 1930s he became a committed Communist and anti-fascist. In 1942, the Royal Air Force dropped thousands of leaflets of his poem “Liberté” (originally titled “Une seule pensée”) over occupied France. He became a hero of the Resistance. After the war, he embraced the cause of peace. He died of a heart attack in 1952. His funeral was sponsored by the French Communist Party and was attended by thousands of mourners. He’s buried in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3115 Light Cream Pods 2025-06-06T13:14:04-04:00 Fatimah Tuggar journals@upress.ufl.edu <p><em>Light Cream Pods</em> is an installation-based artwork characterized by simultaneous interactions with calabashes (woody gourds) and virtual visual and audio occurrences through augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), and animatronic sculptures, all housed in an architectural façade inspired by Tubali Hausa vernacular architecture. The artwork is part of the Creations Reaction’s series.</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3111 Emigrés by Richard Scholar 2025-06-06T12:48:38-04:00 Sylvie Blum-Reid journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>Richard Scholar: <em>Emigrés: French Words That Turned English</em>.<br>Princeton UP, 2020.</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3112 Columns by Nikolai Zabolotsky 2025-06-06T12:57:13-04:00 Anna Krushelnitskaya journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>Nikolai Zabolotsky. <em>Columns</em>. Translated from Russian by Dmitri<br>Manin. Introduction by Darra Goldstein. Arc Publications, 2023.<br>Paperback, 144 pages. $16.49. ISBN: 9781911469155</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3113 Negro Mountain by C. S. Giscombe 2025-06-06T13:03:38-04:00 James McCorkle journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>C. S. Giscombe. <em>Negro Mountain</em>. University of Chicago Press, 2023. Paperback, 91 pages. $18.00. ISBN: 9780226829715.</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/delos/article/view/3114 Finding My Shadow by Diego Bastianutti 2025-06-06T13:09:26-04:00 Mary Watt journals@upress.ufl.edu <p>Diego Bastianutti. <em>Finding My Shadow: A Journey of Self-Discovery</em>. Club Giuliano Dalmato, 2022. Paperback, 160 pages + 6 color illustrations. $30.00. ISBN: 9781777854447</p> 2025-06-10T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 University of Florida Press