One for the Books, and a Very Good Read

April 15, 2009
One for the Books, and a Very Good Read

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism Catalin Avramescu Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth Princeton University Press, 2009 The cannibal--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation--has haunted the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans ...

 
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Once on an Off-Key Time

April 14, 2009
Once on an Off-Key Time

Bogdan Suceavă's Once on an Off-Key Time / Venea din timpul diez will be launched by the Hungarian publisher Noran Könyvek during the Budapest Fair from April 23-26 in a translation by József Éltető. Romanian critic Paul Cernat considers the novel one of the heavy weight titles of the ...

 
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Filip Florian Goes Global

April 13, 2009
Filip Florian Goes Global

Monday, March 30: literary agent Simona Kessler announced that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will launch Filip Florian’s novel Degete mici (Little Fingers) on July 23. Translated into English by Alistair Blyth, the novel will see an original print run of 5,000 copies. HMH has purchased the ...

 
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Pigeon Post

April 06, 2009
Pigeon Post

By Dumitru Tsepeneag, Translated from the French by Jane Kuntz Dalkey Archive Press, 2008 Reviewed by Stefanie Sobelle Communication, Tsepeneag suggests, is a collaborative process. "I couldn't write a novel unless I had domestic help," quips the narrator, "I've always ...

 
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More from the Băiuţeii Boys

April 02, 2009
More from the Băiuţeii Boys

Matei Florian performed a bilingual reading together with translator Eva Wemmer, from the novel Băiuţeii – written together with his brother, Filip Florian – at The Romanian Cultural Center in Berlin, on Friday, March 23. Matei Florian made his literary debut with poetry in 1997, and ...

 
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About this issue

This July, The Observer Translation Project leaves its usual format to present a special CRISIS ISSUE. Things are tough all over. Hard Times suddenly feels like the book of the moment. The global economic crisis impacts life as we know it, and viewed from Bucharest the effects reverberate in domains that include geo-politics and publishing in Romania and abroad, with the crisis at The Observer Translation Project as an instance of a universal phenomenon. read more...

Translator's Choice

Author: Stelian Tănase
Translated by: Jean Harris

From Maestro: A Melodrama. Episode 7

Emiluţa has an unfortunate thought. She’ll throw herself off the top of the building. Why? What the fuck? Let’s say for the cause of PeaceonEarth, for the slumdogs, Europe, for the lonely. Which is to say she doesn’t have a ghost of a reason. Viva Walachia! The way things stand, if ...

Translator’s Note
Translator’s Note: a synopsis
Author: Ştefan Agopian
Translated by: Ileana Orlich

How I Learned to Read (from Tache de Catifea / The Velvet Man)

The bearded man was the owner of an apothecary shop where he worked with two apprentices. Nobody paid me any mind, so I spent all day in what was supposed to be the shop. I say this because it was a large, dark room full of odors—a mix of smells from everywhere. The room hadn’t been cleaned ...

Translator’s Note
Re: Learning to Read, from Tache de catifea / The Velvet Man
Author: Gabriela Adameşteanu
Translated by: Patrick Camiller

Wasted Morning - Napoleon in Bucharest

“What you’ve got here is heaven on earth,” Vica says as she drops onto the kitchen chair. “But where’s your mother?” “At work,” Gelu lazily replies, leaning sideways against the door. “She’s doing mornings this week, didn’t you know?” He is tall and thin, with unset ...

Author: Petre Ispirescu
Translated by: Jean Harris

Youth Without Age and Life Without Death

It happened once as never before-y, ‘cause if it couldn’t be true, it wouldn’t make a story about the time when the poplar tree made berries and the willow tree broke out in cherries, when bears began to brawl with their tails, and wolf and lamb, unfurling their sails, threw arms around each ...

Translator’s Note
On Petre Ispirescu
Exquisite Corpse

Planned events in Cultural Agenda see All Planned Events

17 December
Tardes de Cinema Romeno
As tardes de cinema romeno do ICR Lisboa continuam no dia 17 de Dezembro de 2009, às 19h00, na ...
14 December
Omaggio a Gheorghe Dinica Proiezione del film "Filantropica" (regia Nae Caranfil, 2002)
“Filantropica” è uno dei film che più rendono giustizia al ...
12 December
Årets Nobelpristagare i litteratur Herta Müller gästar Dramaten
Foto: Cato Lein 12.12.2009, Dramaten, Nybroplan, Stockholm I samband med Nobelveckan kommer ...
10 December
Romanian Festival @ Peninsula Arts - University of Plymouth
13 & 14 November 2009. Films until 18 December. Twenty of Romania's most influential and ...
10 December
Lesung und Gespräch mit Ioana Nicolaie
Donnerstag, 10. Dezember, um 19.30 Uhr Ort: Szimpla Café Gärtnerstrs.15, ...
 
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