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Rambles through Catalunya

October 2007

Black and White

Him. You. The same pauses.

Translated from Catalan by Lisa M. Dillman

The Invention of the Aspirin

By Empar Moliner

To think that by just using her imagination, they could all be hers, bores her stiff.

Translated from Catalan by Peter Bush

Self-Portrait, 1925-1930

By Ernest Farrés

On the spot where I write all this hodgepodge of verses / stands Edward Hopper,

Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti

Summer Evening, 1947

By Ernest Farrés

Being a couple is twice the fun.

Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti

Summer in the City, 1949

By Ernest Farrés

The man is looking for trouble,

Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti

Sun in an Empty Room, 1963

By Ernest Farrés

In this bedroom devoid of furniture / and unpolluted the action is set.

Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti

I Have Nothing to Wear

The man faces the mirror. He has just shaved and taken a shower.

Translated from Catalan by Josep Miquel Sobrer

The Not-So-Perfect Crime

By Teresa Solana

“Eduard, God doesn’t play dice . . . ” he usually declares when we find ourselves up a blind alley or suddenly have a stroke of good luck.

Translated from Catalan by Peter Bush

The Other Life

By Sergi Pàmies

I had to die to find out whether anybody loved me. When alive, I was never very popular, and it was a real problem for me that I fought very vigorously and quite without success. At home, if I didn’t…

Translated from Catalan by Peter Bush

We Were Just Talking about You

By Sergi Pàmies

Perhaps because I’d smelled this coming, I didn’t try to fight back.

Translated from Catalan by Peter Bush

Afternoon at the Cinema

By Mercè Rodoreda

We had quarreled earlier and I was almost in tears when he was buying the tickets.

Translated from Catalan by Martha Tennent

Waiting Room

By Francesc Parcerisas

The love you didn’t expect is always more pure.

Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti