Il Pet Shop di Rua Tiradentes from Tetralogia della brevità

Written in Italian by Julio Monteiro Martins

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L’inferno può anche essere liquido, buio, freddo, silenzioso o vegetale. Pensavo al sommozzatore imprudente o inesperto che finisce per perdersi dentro uno di quei grovigli di alghe di centinaia di metri d’altezza e chilometri di estensione. Senza più una direzi

Der Raub der Suleika. Niederländisch, Ende 19. Jahrhundert from Der Untergang der Titanic

Written in German by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Klein, grau und krumm steht er, das Glas in der Hand,
kurz vor Ostern, ans Eisengeländer gelehnt,
mit dem Rücken zur Straße, als wär sie ein Meer,
vor seinem Haus in der Prinsengracht
— über die Treppe, die klein, grau und krumm ist,
weht
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Fabio Pusterla

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Cinque poesie da Bocksten

Written in Italian by Fabio Pusterla

Also in: Portuguese

Paesaggio from Le cose senza storia

Written in Italian by Fabio Pusterla

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Eccomi qua nel buio from Bocksten

Written in Italian by Fabio Pusterla

Also in: German, Croatian, French

Sonno di Claudia e di Nina from Le cose senza storia

Written in Italian by Fabio Pusterla

Also in: French, Serbian

Madonna dei Campi

Written in Italian by Fabio Pusterla

Also in: French, German

Congedo from Argéman

Written in Italian by Fabio Pusterla

Also in: French, German, English, Croatian, Serbian, Portuguese

Arkadij

Translated into Italian by Emanuela Bonacorsi

Written in Georgian by Levan Berdzenishvili

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Nei suoi versi elegiaci, Solone, legislatore e poeta dell’antica Grecia, sostiene che la vita dell’uomo è suddivisa in periodi di sette anni: nel primo settennio il bambino cambia i denti, nel secondo raggiunge la pubertà, nel terzo gli cresce la barba, nel quarto

La seconda volta

Written in Italian by Maurizia Balmelli

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1 marzo ’18

Ieri avevo appuntamento con Abdul, ventitreenne egiziano sans papiers di cui sono il binôme, la «compagna di studio» (dice il Sansoni), e che vedo una volta a settimana per parlare e «fare i verbi» – dice lui. Sono uscita di casa verso le cinque
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Poethreesome 2018: A Preview

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A Hall of Poetic Mirrors

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Sept poèmes from Atemnot: IV. Territorien

Written in French by Marina Skalova

Also in: German, Romansh

Set poesias

Written in Romansh by Gianna Olinda Cadonau

Also in: German, French

Oath to the Queen from Lucifer Over London

Written in English by Xiaolu Guo

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Once I saw a newsreel of Queen Elizabeth II making a speech when I was still living in Beijing in the 1990s. I was puzzled by the way she spoke English, even though I could not understand half of what she said. I noticed that her lips barely

How My Father Looked and The Sexless Life of My Mother

Written in English by Sulaiman Addonia

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I think I have a way of finding out what my father looked like. Yes, finally! Excuse my excitement. My father died when I was very young, and to this day, I have never seen a picture of him. My search for his face goes back to when I lived in a refugee camp in e

Three Poems from Clous

Written in Hungarian by Agota Kristof

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Szögek

A házak és az élet fölött
szürke könnyű köd szememben a fák
jövendő leveleivel
vártam a nyarat legjobban
a port szerettem a nyárban fehér
meleg port
bogarak és békák fúltak bele
mikor nem hullt eső

Преводачът

Translated into Bulgarian by Neva Micheva

Written in Spanish by Juan Villoro

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На Сузане Ланге

Да познаваш до голяма степен е да превеждаш. Заради всякога относителния си характер онова, което знаем, ни задължава да вникваме малко по малко в нещата – лунните фази, падането на камъка и полетът на сокола се подреждат в бавн

النضال ذكوري

Written in Arabic by Najlaa Eltom

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في عام 2006، بينما كنت اعمل في قسم الشئون الإدارية والمالية في المقر الرئيسي لإحدى وكالات الأمم المتحدة بالخرطوم، كُلفت بمتابعة بعض الشئون في مكتب المنظمة في كادقلي عاصمة جنوب كردفان. من بين المهام التي باشرتها المشاركة في تعيين بعض العمال والموظفين في “محطة

Ikke graåt, due er kona mi nå from Sovjetistan

Written in Norwegian by Erika Fatland

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Nitten år gamle Mariam var glad på bestevenninnens vegne da hun pyntet seg og gjorde seg i stand til forlovelsesfesten hennes. Datoen for bryllupet var alt bestemt, og Mariam skulle være forlover. Hun kjente ikke den vordende brudgommen særlig godt, men venninnen virk

Gabbiani, dunque and Questa è la mia preghiera del mattino

Written in Italian by Valerio Magrelli

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Gabbiani, dunque

“La poesia e la fogna, due problemi mai disgiunti”
– E. Montale

A Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Ho fatto male a dirne tanto male
e per questo si vendicano.
Scesi dall’alto de

دفاعا عن القارئ

Written in Arabic by Ahmed Shafie

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في مفتتح روايته “من قبوي”، يطرح فيودور دوستويفسكي سؤال: ما الشيء الذي يجد المرء في الحديث عنه أكبر متعة؟ ويجيب: ـ عن نفسه. وعلى مدار الأسابيع القليلة الماضية كتبت عن نفسي وتكلمت عنها أكثر مما فعلت في حياتي كلها. كان عليَّ أن أقدِّم نفسي لزملائي الكتاب.

“May my enemy be assuaged…” from White Egrets

Written in English by Derek Walcott

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May my enemy be assuaged by these waves
because they are beautiful even to his evil,
may the drizzle be a benediction to his heart
even as it is to mine; they say here that the devil
is beating his wife when the sun shines through

Arabi in Romania. Una storia d'amore orientale

Translated into Italian by Roberta Gado

Written in German by Dana Grigorcea

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Il primo torchio per la stampa a caratteri arabi arrivò in Siria più di trecento anni fa. Era un dono della Romania ai cristiani arabi di Antiochia. Il torchio restò in funzione per tre secoli e ancora recentemente era esposto ad Aleppo. La Romania non fa eccezione nel

דו-לשוני במידה פתולוגית

Translated into Hebrew by Tal Nitzán

Written in English by Aleksandar Hemon

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אני עדיין זוכר בבירור את היום שבו חזר אבי מהעבודה ואמר לי, בעודו חולץ את נעליו בכניסה, שרשם אותי לספרייה וגם לקורס בשפה האנגלית, במרכז החלוצים המקומי (pionirski centar). אכן, הייתי חלוץ, בן שבע. המינוי לספרייה מצא חן בעיניי, אבל לגבי הקורס באנגלית לא הייתי נלהב כל כך –

(أدباء زمان (روبرتو بولانيو في بلانيس 1996-1999

Translated into Arabic by Shadi Rohana / عن الأسبانيّة: شادي روحانا

Written in Spanish by Enrique Vila-Matas

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«هكذا، يا بلاش / القصة وما فيها هي أن تعرف كيف تقوم عن الحبال»
— ماريو سانتياغو

كتب أغوستو مونتِرّوسو وقال: عاجلًا أم آجلًا، إن مصائر الأديب اللاتينوأمريكي المُحتملة هي ثلاثة: إمّا المنفى، أو الحبس، أو القبر. عرفتُ روبرتو بولا

Pierre et le loup

Written in French by Éric Chevillard

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Bien, bien bien, c’est charmant, Pierre et le loup, je ne le nie pas, une bonne introduction à la musique d’orchestre pour le public enfantin auquel il s’agit de vendre cette manifestation incongrue et fastidieuse du génie humain, ce feu d’artifice de c

Голова моего отца

Written in Russian by Elena Botchorichvili

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Голова моего отца находится на горе Чачубетского района Горийской области. Там раньше была наша дача, которую построил мой отец, а помогал ему я, и мы оба ругались и проклинали эти пронумерованные бревна, что годами сушились и мокли под открытым небом в деревне

La rüsümada

Written in Italian by Giorgio Orelli

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La rüsümada, rosso d’uovo sbattuto con lo zucchero come nello zabaione ma il marsala cede al vino, l’abbiamo provata tutt’e due, io e mio padre, è bastato un sorso perché ci sbiadisse un urto di vomito. Mio padre aveva accettato più che volentieri un caffè con l

Aus und vorbei: Abschiedsgedichte von zwei Jahrhunderten

Written in German by Mascha Kaléko and Johann Gabriel Seidl

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Großstadtliebe

Man lernt sich irgendwo ganz flüchtig kennen
Und gibt sich irgendwann ein Rendezvous.
Ein Irgendwas, – ’s ist nicht genau zu nennen –
Verführt dazu, sich gar nicht mehr zu trennen.
Beim zweiten Himbeereis sagt man

Venticinque e Quarantatré da Centuria

Written in Italian by Giorgio Manganelli

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Venticinque

Il signore vestito di un completo blu un poco sgualcito, che in questo momento attraversa la strada male illuminata, e un poco barcolla, è in realtà completamente ubriaco, e il suo progetto è semplicemente di arrivare a casa. Non è singolare che

Demir Kapi from İstanbul İstanbul

Written in Turkish by Burhan Sönmez

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Öğrenci Demirtay Anlatıyor

“Aslında uzun hikâye, ama ben kısa anlatacağım,” dedim. “İstanbul’a öyle kar yağdığı görülmemişti. Karaköy’deki Sen Jorj Hastanesi’nden gece yarısı ayrılan iki rahibe kötü haberi iletmek üzere Sen Antuan Kilisesi’ne doğru giderke

Vers midi from Les Heures du jour. 7 janvier

Translated into French by Christian Viredaz

Written in Italian by Vanni Bianconi

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Asie Mineure. Ou plutôt la Mysie,
le numéro n’est pas le bon, ils sont
au 6 de la Rue Appert (Nicolas,
oui, l’inventeur à la très longue vie
des conserves alimentaires hermétiques).
Ici règne Télèphe, l’époux d’Hiéra,
d’elle on dit q

Лекция 7-я from Взятие Измаила

Written in Russian by Mikhail Shishkin

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Narratio est rei factae, aut ut factae, utilis ad persuadendum expositio.
– Квинтиллиан

В деле Крамер знаменитый Урусов добился оправдания подзащитной, несмотря на ее признание, на очевидную наличность corpus delicti и даже на вытянутый

Other Portraits of Solitude

Written in English by Susana Moreira Marques

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Consider this: you arrive in a new city, a different country, a different part of the world. You try to understand it in just a few days, to write about it, condense it. You want to build a bridge and cross it, though culture and history can keep you apart from

Les plis dans la couverture

Written in French by Fabienne Radi

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Entre 20 et 24 ans j’ai passé beaucoup de temps à regarder des cailloux. J’essayais régulièrement de les casser avec un objet contondant, de les tremper dans de l’acide, de les brûler avec un briquet, de les griffer avec un bout de verre  ou même de leur cracher

Do Leukonoe. Dwadzieścia dwie ody

Written in Polish by Wisława Szymborska

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Co nowego w polskiej poezji? A jest, jest coś nowego, wydano właśnie garść liryków Horacego w przekładzie Adama Ważyka. Nie najlepiej wiodło się w Polsce Horacemu przez ostatnie dwieście lat. Od romantyzmu poeci wybitni przestali widzieć w nim mistrza i rówieśnika

Silens Moon

Written in French by Pierre Cendors

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En chacun de nous, une nuit souveraine flamboie, ne serait-ce qu’une seule fois dans nos yeux, avant de sombrer à nouveau sous la lumière ordinaire des jours. Il nous est alors accordé d’entrer dans le penetralia silencieux de notre vie secrète et d

La peor parte

Written in Spanish by Rodrigo Rey Rosa

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A todos, menos a ella, les dije que me iba, y me he quedado. Burlar al guardia de migración fue bastante fácil. Un golpe en la frente para significar el olvido y un brusco recordar; un discurso falso acerca de ciertas pastillas. —Apúrese —me dijo el guardia—, lo va a d

Kimihurura Kandi from Marembo

Byahinduwe mu Kinyarwanda na Bahizi Olivier Uwineza

Written in French by Dorcy Rugamba

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Umuryango wanjye wazimiriye umunsi umwe, byamaze iminota itagera kuri mirongo ine n’itanu, hari kw’itariki ya karindwi z’ukwezi kwa Mata mu gihumbi kimwe magana cyenda na mirongo icyenda na kane, saa yine za mu gitondo. Ntibakubiswe n’inkuba cyangwa ngo batwarwe

Australian Babel: A Conversation with Karrabing

Written in Pidgin by Karrabing

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1. And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2. And it happened that as they moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick

Frammenti di un’autobiografia che non scriverò mai

Written in Italian by Ruska Jorjoliani

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Cavalli

Le narrazioni epiche, dalle nostre parti, erano come le zeppe che servivano a non far traballare il piano di lavoro della quotidianità, con sopra gli utensili di poco prezzo, che ognuno si trascinava dietro come i lunghi e logoranti inverni. Ed e

Five Poems

Written in English by Russell Edson

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The Adventures of a Turtle

The turtle carries his house on his back. He is both the house and the person of that house.
But actually, under the shell is a little room where the true turtle, wearing long underwear, sits at a little table. At one end

Alma from La Lenteur de l’aube

Written in French by Anne Brécart

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Ce 4 juillet, alors que nous roulons sur la route de campagne, j’ai envie de dire à Alma combien je suis fatiguée de ma vie d’adulte. Mais je ne trouve pas les mots. Elle a toujours ce regard lisse et indifférent qui fait comme un mur entre elle et moi. Je n’os

From Buchi

Written in Italian by Ugo Cornia

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E la morte della mamma? (morta 11? Novembre ’95): per tanti anni, ricordare – oggi tre anni fa è morta la mamma – oggi dodici anni fa è morta la mamma – me la scorderò mai sta data? Telefoni alla zia Bruna, senza dirglielo che esattamente due anni prima è morta sua

How My Books Have Roamed the World

Translated into English by Helen Wang

Written in Chinese by Yu Hua

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For this presentation, I counted the number of countries and languages, apart from China and Chinese (and China’s ethnic minority languages) that my books have been published in so far, and it came to 38 countries and 35 languages. The reason there are more countries th

Osten vs Westen, Vergangenheit vs Gegenwart

Deutsche Übersetzung von Anne Rademacher

Written in English by Xiaolu Guo

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Ich oder wir? Waren oder sind? Vergessen sein oder vergessend? Ich kann mich noch erinnern, welch  qualvoller Prozess sich vor mir auftat, als ich in London mit der Arbeit an meinem ersten auf Englisch geschriebenen Roman begann. Es war zu Beginn des Jahres 2003, u

La femme de R. from La querelle des images

Written in French by Abdelfattah Kilito

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Quand un homme pénétrait dans notre rue (en fait une impasse qui formait un coude en son milieu), il voyait inévitablement, et quelle que fût l’heure du jour, une tête de femme disparaitre derrière une porte. Un étranger n’y prêtait pas grande attentio

Bureau des élucidations – Entrer sans frapper from Juste Ciel

Written in French by Éric Chevillard

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– Une petite plaisanterie innocente pour détendre les nouveaux-venus.
Albert a maintenant la porte dans le dos. Il cherche d’où vient la voix qui lui parle. Il doit avoir l’air dubitatif, car on croit bon de préciser :
– Entrer sans frapper, c’est pour r

A bylo snazší koupit kulky než květiny from Opera

Translated in Czech by Libor Dvorak

Written in Russian by Elena Botchorichvili

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Najednou noci začaly být horké jako ženská objetí. A do Tbilisi od moře přiletěli racci. Ptáci špinaví a ukřičení. A přiběhli běženci. Taky špinaví a ukřičení. A válce v patách kráčela zkáza – asi jako gruzínská manželka, doprovázející svého muže. A strom, co rostl u nás do

From Agora e na hora da nossa morte

Written in Portuguese by Susana Moreira Marques

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Na mesinha de cabeceira, um relógio marca as horas da medicação. Ninguém parece reparar na ironia de ter um relógio à cabeceira de um moribundo. — No país para onde emigrou diz‐se que as pessoas vão para o céu. Em casa, em pequena, ouvia dizer: morreu, e já não torn

From Zabor ou Les psaumes

Written in French by Kamel Daoud

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Je l’ai maintes fois vérifié. C’est ma muette malédiction. La loi de ma vie que personne ne devine. Je le dis (écris) : Quand moi j’oublie, la mort se souvient. Confusément mais abruptement. Je ne pourrais pas expliquer cela, mais je me sens lié à la Faucheuse,
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The Blogosphere’s Protective Edge: Entries from Palestinian Blogs

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لعبة

Written in Arabic by Majd Kayyal

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ورقة من غزة — 2054

Written in Arabic by Mahmoud Omar

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Fragments from Gaza / Manal Miqdal

Writtten in Arabic by Manal Miqdal

Also in: English, Spanish

Fragments from Gaza / Mahmoud Jawda

Written in Arabic by Mahmoud Jawda

Also in: English, Spanish

Running Orders

Written in English by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Also in: Spanish, Arabic

From Bambini di ferro

Written in Italian by Viola Di Grado

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L’Accudimento Artificiale aveva una durata di tre anni. Nei primi tre mesi, la testa dell’Unità Materna veniva regolarmente collegata a una calotta sulla testa del bambino. Così intercettava immediatamente tutte le sue necessità: conosceva i segnali elettrici della s

Pingvini u računovodstvu

Translated into Croatian by Koraljka Crnković

Written in Greek by Christos Ikonomou

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Jutros je otac progutao pet čavala. Željeznih čavala, onih velikih. Čim je vidio Petrosa u lisicama i policajce kako ga vode izvadio je iz džepa čavle i progutao ih. Odjedanput. Kao bombone. Sjedio sam do njega ali uopće nisam primijetio. U jednom sam trenutku doduše

O homem que sabia javanês

Written in Portuguese by Lima Barreto

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Em uma confeitaria, certa vez, ao meu amigo Castro, contava eu as partidas que havia pregado às convicções e às respeitabilidades, para poder viver. Houve mesmo, uma dada ocasião, quando estive em Manaus, em que fui obrigado a esconder a minha qualidade de bacha

From Дознаватель

Written in Russian by Margarita Khemlin

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Остёр встретил меня свадьбой. Женился еврей с еврейкой. И гости, будем откровенны, сплошь евреи. Не без украинских товарищей, но в основном и целом. Слышалась еврейская речь, особенно со стороны пожилых. Веселье уже дошло до такой степени, что танцевать вывалили из до

From The House

Translated into English by Mikheil D. Kakabadze

Written in Georgian by Mikheil Kakabadze

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“I’m a pianist too,” I said for some reason.
The German smiled again, with a spark of hope in his eyes. He lowered his hands.
“Hands up!” the sergeant barked, and the German raised his hands at once.
“Don’t kill me,” he pleaded with the sergean

La princesa y el pene

Traducido al español por Fernando Sdrigotti

Written in English by Joanna Walsh

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A pesar de que estaba en el centro de la ciudad, las noticias sobre la invención de las máquinas sexuales no habían llegado aún al castillo. Además del rey, y hasta hacía un tiempo la reina, allí vivía una princesa que estaba siempre buscando un verga de verdad.

5 Poems on Fear and Courage

Written in English by Charles Simic

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Much grief await us, friends.
From this day on
We’ll be testing our courage
Like those men who stretch a wire
Between two skyscrapers,
And set out to walk on it,
Bringing along an open umbrella
Which the wind may take aw

Рыбы и другие близкие from Кристалл в прозрачной оправе. Рассказы о воде и камнях

Written in Russian by Vasilij Avchenko

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Около двадцати первых лет моей жизни я не замечал моря и не мог сказать, люблю ли я его. Как можно любить или не любить воздух, которым дышишь, воду, из которой, если верить школьным учителям, в основном состоишь? Море всегда было рядом, и мне казалось, что любой гор

Les étables de Rosagarda

Traduit en français par Florence Courriol

Written in Italian by Giorgio Orelli

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Étables en pierre, ou à soubassement en bois, ou tout en bois, noirci et même noir quelquefois ; en groupes épars, comme préludes de villages, ou isolées, presque distraites, que l’œil vagabond est content de retrouver. Les plus familières sont entourées d’une fontai

What Can Literature Still Do?

Written in English by Georgi Gospodinov

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The book, thanks to which I have the honor of speaking in front of you, is called The Physics of Sorrow. An editor gave me a friendly advice to change this title because nobody would want a novel with such a name. The sorrow doesn’t sell. Have you seen a melancholy Me

5 Poems

Written in Hebrew by Tal Nitzán

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– נֹאמַר שֶׁאַתָּה שׁוֹכֵב עַל הַצַּד, הָמוֹן זְמַן, עוֹד מְעַט נוֹבֶמְבֶּר וְאַתָּה עַל אוֹתוֹ הַצַּד, הַלְּחִי כְּבָר כּוֹאֶבֶת לְךָ, גַּם הָאֹזֶן כּוֹאֶבֶת, הַצַּוָּאר מְעֻקָּם, הַצְּלָעוֹת נִמְחָצוֹת וְכֹל הַגּוּף שֶׁלְּךָ צוֹעֵק דַּי.
– אֶסְתּוֹבֵב

Einen Wasserfall malen

Aus dem Französischen von Katja Meintel

Written in French by Jérémie Gindre 

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Wenn ich mich draußen in der Natur auf die Erde setze, bin ich immer erstaunt, wie genau ich unter meinem Hintern jedes Detail des Bodens spüre. Ich habe einen ziemlich breiten Hintern, und ich trage Jeans, trotzdem könnte ich problemlos auflisten, was sich unt

From Book of Thunder

Written in English by Chloe Aridjis

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Even on days I didn’t leave home the city wouldn’t let me forget it and forced its way through the windowpanes. Our street wasn’t busy but even so, silence simply didn’t exist. The city’s din was too constant, too insistent. Car horns, the cries of street vendors, o

¿Por qué escribo?

Written in Spanish by Abilio Estévez

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Después que los periodistas agotan todas las posibles preguntas sobre Fidel Castro y su futuro, surge siempre la pregunta ¿por qué escribes? Si sobre Fidel Castro y su futuro no sé casi qué decir, a propósito de esta última pregunta me quedo con una incómoda sensació

5 Poems from 40 Sonnets

Written in English by Don Paterson

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For months I’d moved across the open water
like a wheel under its skin, a frictionless
and by then almost wholly abstract matter
with nothing in my head beyond the bliss
of my own breaking, how the long foreshore
would hear my full co

From A Boneca de Kokoschka

Written in Portoguese by Afonso Cruz

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AOS QUARENTA E DOIS ANOS, mais concretamente, dois dias depois do seu aniversário, Bonifaz Vogel começou a ouvir uma voz. A princípio pensou que fossem os ratos. Depois, pensou chamar alguém para acabar com os bichos da madeira. Alguma coisa o impediu. Talvez o mo

Dzień oprycznika

Translated by Agnieszka Lubomira Piotrowska

Written in Russian by Vladimir Sorokin

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Czas przystąpić do codziennych obowiązków. Przybyły cyrulik już oczekuje w garderobie. Zmierzam tam. Krępy milczek Samson z pokłonem sadza mnie przed lustrami, masuje mi twarz, naciera szyję olejkiem lawendowym. Jego ręce, jak ręce wszystkich cyrulików, nie są zbyt

10 ottobre from Absolutely Nothing

Written in Italian by Giorgio Vasta

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Lasciato l’Ufo Museum di Roswell ci dimentichiamo di voler raggiungere il cratere dell’ufo crash, passiamo dal New Mexico al Texas e arriviamo ad Allamoore. Lungo la strada ci siamo fermati in un drugstore dove Ramak e io, furtivi, fingendo che Silva non se ne a

Lei è un altro paese

Tradotto da Nausikaa Angelotti

Written in English by Saleh Addonia

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Le autorità hanno respinto la nostra richiesta d’asilo, la corte d’appello ci ha negato il ricorso, e siamo diventati clandestini. La motivazione della nostra domanda d’asilo era Lei. In tutti i moduli abbiamo dichiarato che nel paese dove siamo cresciuti Lei non

5 Poems from Morning, Paramin

Written in English by Derek Walcott

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Along the cemetery wall of Lapeyrouse
in Port of Spain, Trinidad, he saw this truth:
a fellow walking with a floral umbrella
that seems both parasol and parachute―
all our wishes are still rooted in ground,
but solid as a hydrant on

Rovine

Tradotto in italiano da Gabriella Soldini

Written in German by Gertrud Leutenegger

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A tanto siamo arrivati: facciamo visita alle rovine dei nostri ghiacciai. Mentre valichiamo il passo della Furka sentiamo l’esigenza di vedere ancora una volta da vicino il ghiacciaio del Rodano. Quello che ci attende è uno scenario bizzarro. Dove è finita la l

"With riverbanks of frozen chocolate, a city" from Nativity Poems

Translated into English by Derek Walcott

Written in Russian by Joseph Brodsky

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to E.R.

With riverbanks of frozen chocolate, a city
mixes its reflections with milk. A chiming of bells.
A room with a lampshade. Distantly
clouds burst open like kitchen doors with busy angels.
I am writing you this from the other

Der Übersetzer

Written in German by Clemens Umbricht

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Für José Aníbal Campos

Sein Reisepass ist eine Weltkarte.
Jeder Text fordert ihn auf, sich auszuweisen.
Eines Tages werde ich einen Satz finden,
der in allen Sprachen gleich lautet –
bis dahin bleibt meine Arbeit Stückwerk.
Die