Are there great and famous prefaces to literary works, including translations? A clever way of answering this question and in the process turning...

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Dance with Me, the book from which these poems are drawn, is a friendship book/conversation between the cultures of the two authors,...

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Some fundamental things do change. In this time of gender sensibility and sexual politics, it might seem odd, even dangerous, for a...

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Vladimir (Vlad) Pryakhin is a Russian poet as well as a publisher of poetry. Born in 1957 in Tula, he lived in Tula, the Baltic states, the...

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Dmitry Kedrin (1907–1945), a second-generation Russian Modernist, remains almost entirely unknown in the English language. That this master...

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Konstantin Vaginov (1899-1934) was born and lived in St. Petersburg, Russia. He came of age as a poet in the 1920s, when literary life was...

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This is my second translation of a story by the Dominican author José Alcántara Almánzar published in Delos, the other one, “Enigma,” having...

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Vassilis Alexakis (1943) is a Greek-French author, self-translator, cartoonist and film director. Born in Athens, Vassilis Alexakis has spent...

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Claude Arnaud has published novels and biographies, a play, and other works whose genre is less easily defined, since 1985. His 1988 biography...

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During the course of an email correspondence on the subject of Heinrich von Kleist’s short essay “Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken...

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In April of 1945 Yoshida Mitsuru (1923-1979)1 was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) assigned to the battleship IJN Yamato. He...

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At the beginning of Book 4 of the Odyssey, Telemachus, accompanied by Nestor’s son, Peisistratus, has arrived at the palace of the Greek...

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Popol Vuh (Popol Wuj), a K’iche’ Maya epic, is widely judged as the finest piece of native American literature. Written between 1554 and 1558 in...

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While teaching Goethe’s Faust in translation on the university level in the 1980s and 90s, I had come across the name Walter Kaufmann as a...

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The original French text, titled Mémoires d’outre-mer (MOM), was published by Gallimard, in 2015. It was awarded the “Franz Hessel”...

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