Articles tagged "Spanish"
Ride of the Valkyries
For Vasco Szinetar The president sits in the backseat of the car and watches confusedly as his wife struggles to climb in. Her clothes are cumbersome, extravagant, even though she dressed in a hurry. He…...
Dance at the Marcone
One Saturday as I was walking down Corrientes looking for the woman of my dreams, or any woman at all, I turned on Pueyrredón to follow a cute brunette who was strutting down the street, shaking…...
The Bather
For more than ten years, Olga had been bathing people in their homes. She didn’t earn a fortune, but she lived comfortably. Her taxes were paid and her refrigerator was full. She even had enough…...
Octavio the Invader
He was prepared for the terrifying violence of the light and noise, but not for the pressure, the brutal atmospheric pressure, combined with the Earth’s gravity, acting on that body which was so…...
The “I Ching” and the Man of Papers
The man awakens with a start. His back feels numb. He had fallen asleep in the chair, and it takes him a moment to remember where he is, but it’s the second night, and the room with its row of beds…...
Five Poems from “Mouth of Hell”
The ephemeral, suddenly, dazzling, like the shrewd play of verses. Steep curve. A river of hermetic prestige diverted from its own digressions. Possible visions to capture the cry of the human. An urging,…...
Preserves
A week, a month go by and we’re getting used to the idea that Teresita will get the jump on our plans. I’m going to have to give up the fellowship because in a few months it’s not going…...
From “Ayer”
The bronze bells of Los Jeronimos tolled the noon hour. We were hungry. We headed for the Basilica restaurant, which was the closest, and sat down at a table. My wife ordered: …...
Alejandro Zambra’s “The Private Lives of Trees”
“He has just finished a very short book; nevertheless, it took several years to write. At first he gathered materials: he accumulated almost three hundred pages; but he gradually reversed course,…...
Damned Spring
Before Vanessa, I had other girlfriends, but none of them was memorable or worthy of appearing in my scrapbook. Actually, I never needed a confidante because I had an imaginary one. Sometimes I talked…...
One or Two Landscapes
Graciela entered the bedroom, took off her light overcoat, looked at herself in the dressing table mirror, and frowned. Then she removed her blouse and skirt and threw herself on the bed. She bent…...
Horacio Castellanos Moya’s “She-Devil in the Mirror”
One would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author as successful as Salvadoran Horacio Castellanos Moya when it comes to exposing the most obscene and discomfiting aspects of human consciousness. …...
Jorge Volpi’s “Season of Ash”
Season of Ash (originally published as No será la Tierra in 2006) may be only Jorge Volpi’s second book to be translated into English but, to my mind, he is as thrilling a discovery as Chilean…...
Alicia Borinsky’s “Frivolous Women and Other Sinners/Frivolas y pecadoras”
“The stages of passion elude her”: Alicia Borinsky’s book Frivolous Women and Other Sinners (Frivolas y Pecadoras) consistently surprises with its verve and stamina, introducing an eclectic…...
Mario Bellatin’s “Beauty Salon”
Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon, translated elegantly from the Spanish by Kurt Hollander, is a strange and beautiful parable about human bodies living and dying on the fringes of society. The brevity…...
Dispatches: Shadows of Your Black Memory
Shadows of Your Black Memory is a rarity -- a novel from the tiny West African nation of Equatorial Guinea. Of Africa’s three Guineas -- Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea -- Equatorial…...
Book Critics Circle Asks: Which Work in Translation has had the Most Effect on your Reading and Writ
James Marcus (who recently contributed to our PEN World Voices Festival coverage) asked members of the Book Critics Circle "Which work in translation has had the most effect on your reading and writing?"…...
Weekly News Update
The PEN World Voices Festival schedule has been announced. Events begin on April 29th. ---------- The bicentennial mark of Gogol's birth has sparked hundreds of events throughout Russia, according to Moscow…...
A Great discussion on Edith Grossman’s Don Quixote
Edith Grossman and Eduardo Lago at Idlewild Books, February 5, 2009 Edith Grossman's English translation of Don Quixote, published in 2003, is praised as an honest as well as accessible version of Cervantes's…...
Reading for BOMB’s issue dedicated to Montevideo, Santiago & Buenos Aires
The following event may be of interest to our readers in New York City: Please join us in celebrating the publication of BOMB #106, dedicated to Montevideo, Santiago & Buenos Aires Reading & Launch Party…...
A Dangerous Homage
Translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee Ten years ago, in the summer of 1997, I was visiting Guatemala City and staying with a friend when the phone rang in the middle of the night. It was my mother…...
Emails from Colombia
The past few weeks I have been in a fascinating email dialogue with Hernan Torres, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad del Cauca in Popayán, Colombia. Previously a Fulbright Scholar…...
The Rooms Aren’t What They Appear to Be
The rooms aren't what they appear to be nor are they the sum of what they seem. What comes clear is their daily record of contact: from the contours that rooms impress on objects and that objects briefly…...
Philosophy
Little spider, greet the sun. Don't be down. Give thanks, dear toad, that you are here. The hairy crabs, like roses, all have thorns, and mollusks are reminiscences of women. Know how to be what you…...
from “Scenes from the Silent Movies”
Balancing the World on His Chin The posters advertising movies or dances were not the only ones that occasionally clamored for our attention from Olleros' walls and tree trunks. Sometimes, too, a traveling…...
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