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    Tag: Exile

    Her heart is this red apple

    Dear Irina, When Isolde (2019, tr. Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinberg. Original: Изольда, 1929) opens, it’s summer, sometime in the wild 1920’s, and we are in Biarritz.…… Read more “Her heart is this red apple”

    8 de January de 2021 by juliana

    In the transparent silence of night,

    Six poems by Irina Odoevtseva: three from the collection A Russian cultural revival: a critical anthology of émigré literature before 1939, edited and translated by Temira Pachmuss…… Read more “In the transparent silence of night,”

    6 de January de 2021 by juliana

    Harp of wild and dream-like strain,

    Dear Emily, Gondal – an imaginary island in the North Pacific, created by you and Anne and peopled with flawed, implacable characters often driven into epic battles…… Read more “Harp of wild and dream-like strain,”

    24 de October de 2019 by juliana

    Memories lie slumbering within us

    Dear Winfried, The Rings of Saturn (tr. Michael Hulse, 1998. Original: Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt, 1995) is beautiful, and melancholy, and strange. It is this…… Read more “Memories lie slumbering within us”

    25 de July de 201827 de July de 2018 by juliana

    Home is a place in the mind

    Dear Maeve, If your novella The Visitor (2000, originally written in the 1940’s) had a face, it would be one of a trapped animal, diverted from its…… Read more “Home is a place in the mind”

    6 de April de 2017 by juliana

    Everyone was fleeing and everything was temporary

    Dear Anna, Do you know this feeling we have when something terrible happens in a dream and we must scream or run, but we find ourselves suddenly…… Read more “Everyone was fleeing and everything was temporary”

    1 de December de 20161 de December de 2016 by juliana

    They didn’t dare before; now they do, that’s all

    Dear Anna, I was halfway through Manja (tr. Kate Phillips, 2003. Manja: Ein Roman um 5 Kinder, 1938) this past week, when your book acquired a new…… Read more “They didn’t dare before; now they do, that’s all”

    13 de November de 201613 de November de 2016 by juliana

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