The Translation Issue (74.4)

Table of Contents

Michael Beard Introduction

Donald Junkins The Language of Translation

Elizabeth Harris Behling On Translating Fiction

Pierre Corneille The Liar (play)
—Translated by Richard Wilbur

Sophokles Women of Trakhis (play)
—Translated by Robert Bagg

Anon. Selections from The Last Word: Ancient Greek Epitaphs
—Translated by Michael Wolfe

Søren Terkelsen Hylas Proposes to Not Get Married and A Drinking Song (songs)
—Translated by W. D. Snodgrass

Leszek Szaruga Time of Translation and Whew (poems)
—Translated by W. D. and K. B. Snodgrass with Justyna Kostkowska

Marin Sorescu Pathway and Symmetry (poems)
—Translated by W. D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

Luis Miguel Aguilar Hilario, Imprudent; José María, Logger; Bernardo, Bashful; The Twins, Prostitutes; Remes, Pen Pusher; and The Broad Bed (poems)
—Translated by Kathleen Snodgrass

Anon. Atahualpa Death Prayer (poem)
—Translated by James Scully

Jules Laforgue Ballad of Little Weak Heart; Periods; and Complaint of a Certain Sunday (poems)
—Translated by William Jay Smith

Philippe Thoby-Marcelin A Thousand Thin Bamboos; A Great Joy Had Descended; Elegy; and Do Flowers Have Thoughts? (poems)
—Translated by William Jay Smith

Geneviève Huttin The Author to Her Book; Islands; and For Georges Guingouin (poems)
—Translated by Bradford Gray Telford

Marina Mayoral In Parks at Dusk (story)
—Translated by Claudia Routon

Paola Masino Intimate Hour (story)
—Translated by Louise Rozier

Malin Schwerdtfeger My First Eight Thousand Climb (story)
—Translated by Wayne Kvam

Rodolfo Wolf From Battles in a Lost War (stories)
—Translated by Elizabeth Hampsten

Dalton Trevisan Goodnight, Sir (story)
—Translated by Alexis Levitin

Nichita Danilov Excerpt from Masha and the Alien (story)
—Translated by Sean Cotter

Henri Joutel The Murder of La Salle
—Translated by John DuVal

Reviews

Donald Junkins, X. J. Kennedy's In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems 1955-2007

Gustav Arnold, D’Arcy McNickle's “The Hungry Generation”: The Evolution of a Novel; Vittorio Hösle, Woody Allen: An Essay on the Nature of the Comical; and W. Scott Olsen, At Speed: Traveling the Long Road between Two Points

Sebastian Braun, Juliana Barr's Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

Roberts French, Anne Pierson Wiese's Floating City

Kate Sweney, Carol Bly and Cynthia Loveland's Against Workshopping Manuscripts: A Plea for Justice to Student Writers

James Ballowe, William Barillas's The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland

Heidi Czerwiec, Robert King's Old Man Laughing

Conrad Davidson, Lynn Stegner's Because a Fire Was in My Head

Steven Finney, Johannes B. Wist's The Rise of Jonas Olsen: A Norwegian Immigrant’s Saga

William Boyle, Troy Jollimore's Tom Thomson in Purgatory

Editor’s Notes

Contributors