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Found on the Tracks: European Writing on Train Travel

November 2015

Three European pieces on train travel feature in this collection, originally featured in the November 2015 issue of Words Without Borders.

Found on the Tracks: European Writing on Train Travel

Trains . . . unite many dichotomies: the exotic and the banal, freedom and luxury, nostalgia and modernity, the possible and the real.

Fish Television

I was clouds transforming, a sinking billow.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

Travel by Train

By Karel Schulz

thus it is proven once again that / luck is a swallow on a telegraph wire

Translated from Czech by Meghan Forbes

From “Staying Gone”

By Ulrike Ulrich

She wonders why she’s doing this to herself. Is it supposed to be some kind of test?

Translated from German by Anne Posten

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