Review of Contemporary Fiction: Translations in Progress

by John O'Brien (Editor), Irving Malin (Editor), Jeremy M Davies (Editor), Tim Peters (Contribution by)

Overview

This issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction will feature excerpts from a variety of works currently being translated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564789310
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	01/06/2014
Series:	Review of Contemporary Fiction Series , #33
Edition description:	Summer 2013 ed.
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

JOHN O'BRIEN also is the author and illustrator of Mother Hubbard's Christmas, which Booklist calls "a yuk-filled read-aloud." He lives in Delran, New Jersey.

Irving MaIin is a member of the faculty of City College of New York.


Jeremy M. Davies was born in Brooklyn. He is an editor at Dalkey Archive Press in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

Tim Peters is a native of western New York State and was raised on a small island in the Niagara River. He studied Classical Greek and Roman Civilizations, and Political Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo and currently lives with his wife and young family in New England.

He is the author/photographer of the seminal book entitled, "Rhythm of the Tides" (August 2000), an award-winning photo-documentary of life on New Brunswick's Grand Manan Island.

His striking photographs have been featured in "American Photographer"; "Camera & Darkroom"; "The Boston Globe"; "The Chicago Tribune"; "The Los Angeles Times"; "Maclean's"; "The National Post"; "Newsweek"; "The Ottawa Citizen"; "Sail"; "The Toronto Star"; "Toronto Life"; and "Time," His work has been acknowledged by Applied Arts, Communication Arts, the Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts, and Studio Magazine.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note 9

From Charles Bovary, Country Doctor Jean Améry Adrian West 11

From the Author and Me Eric Chevillard Jordan Stump 20

From Allada and Experience of Edward Lee, Versailles Gérard Gavarry Katina Rogers 32

From Antagony Luis Goytisolo Brendan Riley 49

From the Antwerp Testament Evelyn Grill Jean M. Snook 76

From "A Letter" Hugo Von Hofmannsthal Lauren K. Wolfe 87

From a Garden in the North Michael Kleeberg David Dollenmayer 97

From "The Death of Balzac" Octave Mirbeau Aaron Kerner 104

From Inspector Bronstein and the Coup D'État: Tacheles 1934 Andreas Pittler Vincent Kling 119

From on the Raft George Saiko Adam Siegel 142

From the Sex of the Angel-The Heaven of the Saints: A Breviary Raoul Schrott Karen Leeder 153

"Banana" A. L. Snijders Lydia Davis 168

From Unintentional Dieter Sperl Geoffrey C. Howes 172

contributors 183

acknowledgments 189

book reviews 190

books received 202