Articles tagged "Balkan"

Irreversible Landscapes (Mag: Articles)

By Luljeta Lleshanaku | January 2, 2004

Irreversible is the river on whose back dead leaves swirl. Irreversible are words- the dust of roads mingled with breath, warm breath that sticks to our trembling lips like fog to a boat.Irreversible is…...

Translated from Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

The Island You and I (Mag: Articles)

By Luljeta Lleshanaku | January 2, 2004

living on an island far from cities with traffic lights and people.Outside we hear the rustlings of a bed of reeds where the wind with its toothless mouth blows luring in tides.A boat is moored on the…...

Translated from Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

February Sky (Mag: Articles)

By Luljeta Lleshanaku | January 2, 2004

Large, gray, sprawled like an old elephant. Winter is ending. Low, sloping roofs are overturned boats slumbering along the shores of drowsiness.Twenty years of an oak tree's life is burned instantly…...

Translated from Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

The Cinema (Mag: Articles)

By Luljeta Lleshanaku | January 2, 2004

Without fail Sundays at the cinema were always rainy days big black umbrellas clashing against the ticket booth. The doorman among the torn stubs looked like a watercolor hung crookedly on a kitchen wall.…...

Translated from Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

Ahlem (Mag: Articles)

By Fatos Lubonja | January 1, 2004

1 The television room had never been so full and so silent, except for the announcer's voice booming for more than an hour. Nobody added a whisper to his commentary. Nobody made a move to leave. It…...

Translated from Albanian by John Hodgson

from The Banquet in Blitva (Mag: Articles)

By Miroslav Krleza | January 1, 2004

Written before the Second World War but not widely available until 1962, Miroslav Krleza's Banquet in Blitva combines the satire of a Jonathan Swift with the style and tone of the Austrian Recession…...

Translated from Croatian by Edward Dennis Goy and Jasna Levinger

Shadows on the Snow (Mag: Articles)

By Luljeta Lleshanaku | January 1, 2004

The snow comes late this year. Violet shadows doze like shepherds round a white fire. The swaying shadow of a fence looks like a woman's clavicle- a woman who dreams of her lover's snowy journey…...

Translated from Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

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