Nonnus
This post is from Andrew Barrett, one of the students in the MA program in Literary Translation here at the University of Rochester. When he told me he was working on a translation of a poem from Ancient Greek, I though, “huh, OK,” but then when I found out it was an erotic epic poem about Dionysus, I thought, ...
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Fair Play
“There is no silence like sitting in a fog at sea and listening,” writes Tove Jansson in her newly-translated story collection Fair Play. “Large boats can loom up suddenly, and you don’t hear the bow water in time to start your motor and get out of the way.” Stuck waiting out a dense, chilling fog in ...
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The Dust of Suns by Raymond Roussel
Where: The Charnel House, 3421 W. Fullerton St., Chicago, IL French poet, novelist and playwright Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) faced almost universal incomprehension and derision during his lifetime for works that neglected traditional character and plot development in favor of the construction of elaborate descriptions and ...
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The Dust of Suns by Raymond Roussel
Where: The Charnel House, 3421 W. Fullerton St., Chicago, IL French poet, novelist and playwright Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) faced almost universal incomprehension and derision during his lifetime for works that neglected traditional character and plot development in favor of the construction of elaborate descriptions and ...
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The Dust of Suns by Raymond Roussel
Where: The Charnel House, 3421 W. Fullerton St., Chicago, IL French poet, novelist and playwright Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) faced almost universal incomprehension and derision during his lifetime for works that neglected traditional character and plot development in favor of the construction of elaborate descriptions and ...
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Laurence Senelick
Where: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Sixth Floor, Room 625, Boston University Senelick presents Seeing Chekhov Whole: On Translating the Complete Plays of Anton Chekhov. Part of Boston University’s Lecture Series in Literary Translation. All lectures are free and open to the public. A discussion will follow the ...
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Edith Grossman & Steve Dolph
Where: McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, (between Lafayette & Mulberry), New York, NY 10012 Edith Grossman is a translator, critic, and teacher of literature in Spanish. She was born in Philadelphia, attended the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Berkeley, completed a PhD at New York ...
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