Articles tagged " Death"

Waterproof (Mag: Articles)

By Lars Saabye Christensen | March 1, 2004

Each day that whole summer, apart from the week when she was to learn to swim, Andrea stood at the quay and waited as the Prince drew in to land. It wasn't the passengers she wanted to see, as they…...

Translated from Norwegian by Kenneth Steven

Untold Hitlers (Mag: Articles)

By Vijay Dan Detha | March 1, 2004

The five were only men. Some younger, some older, all between thirty and fifty. The eldest was beginning to gray here and there, but the others had heads of hair black as bumblebees. They looked like men:…...

Translated from Rajasthani by Christi A. Merrill and Kailash Kabir

from The Professor’s Knife (Mag: Articles)

By Tadeusz Różewicz | March 1, 2004

I Trains a freight train cattle cars in a very long line it goes through fields and forests through green meadows over grasses and herbs so quietly the buzzing of bees can be heard it goes through the…...

Translated from Polish by Joanna Trzeciak

Groans (Mag: Articles)

By Faraj Bayraqdar | January 1, 2004

1 Here I am you alone In this mad, gaping Hell Here I am you alone and death altogether With its predators and its seers and the informers Perhaps I am arriving at The limit of my possibilities For you…...

Translated from Arabic by Shareah Taleghani

from The Roulette Player (Mag: Articles)

By Mircea Cartarescu | November 1, 2003

By chance, the first roulette player I ever saw escaped with his life. Since then, for many years in a row, I attended hundreds of roulettes and I saw many times an image that cannot be described: the…...

Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian

from He’s Alive (Mag: Articles)

By Kim Hong-ik | September 2, 2003

In this 1995 story, Bun-nyo is an elderly superintendent at a reservoir in the countryside. She devotes much of her time and effort to taking care of a flourishing flower garden that she has planted in…...

Translated from Korean by Ha-yun Jung

Elegy (Mag: Articles)

By Ahmad Shamlou | July 2, 2003

on the death of the poet Forugh Farrokhzad Searching for you on foothills of mountains, on thresholds of oceans and meadows, I cry. Searching for you in windy passes I cry at the crossroads of seasons…...

Translated from Farsi by Zara Houshmand

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