Dreamers Rise

Sergio Borschevsky, the translator of Borges, Cortázar, Neruda, García Márquez, and other writers into Ukrainian, is staying put in Kiev wit...

Some news items of potential interest to readers of this space. The translator Edmund Keeley has died. Known for his versions of the wor...

I pulled out this slender letterpress chapbook the other day when I was looking for something else. I had forgotten that I owned it. The cov...

Today, entirely by accident, I learned of the existence of this bundle of eight chapbooks published in 2017 by the Center for Humanities at ...

A case of a ghastly linguistic muddle involving, in one sentence, no fewer than five languages: Euclides da Cunha, who was a fanatical re...

The translator Gregory Rabassa has died, according to a notice from the Associated Press. Rabassa was a professor for many years at Quee...

Satori Ediciones in Spain has published its second collection of translations into Spanish of the Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873-1939)...

Translated, with permission, from Tororo's French original at A Nice Slice of Tororo Shiru . The year 2014 has been decreed the año Co...

Julio Cortázar's Historias de cronopios y de famas, a volume of short, unclassifiable whimsical fables and texts, was published by Fran...

Julio Cortázar's essay, "Del gesto que consiste en ponerse el dedo índice en la sien y moverlo como quien atornilla y destornilla...

Dora Knowlton Ranous's English version of Flaubert's L'Éducation sentimentale doesn't have much to recommend it (other th...

I haven't been able to determine whether "Cara Mamma," the Primo Levi story from which the following excerpts are taken, has b...

At least thirty-five years ago I greedily devoured this 871-page translation of a novel by the 1937 Nobel Prize-winning novelist Roger Ma...

Dear Gustavo , You’ve asked for a few thoughts on how Cortázar is seen in the US. I’m not an academic and I haven’t made any systematic effo...

This dust jacket is so similar in style and lettering to the one used for Hopscotch that you'd think it would have to be by George Sal...

Paul Blackburn and Cortázar were exchanging correspondence about the translation of this book of whimsical stories and fables as early as 1...

The idea of translating selections from Cortázar's work must have been in Paul Blackburn's mind at least from April 1958, when the ...

In the final paragraph of a letter to Paul Blackburn written from Vienna in September 1961, Cortázar shared a bit of news with his agent and...

Jorge Luis Borges had already made a name for himself, at least in Argentine literary circles, as a poet and essayist years before he turned...

Who cares if old age comes, what is old age? Your shoulders are holding up the world and it's lighter than a child's hand. Wars, fam...