"For me Gérard de Nerval, who killed himself in Paris at the age of 46, is the 19th century’s French literary equivalent of Vincent van Gogh and, on his good days, shared the brightness of the latter’s vision. I once had a go at translating what most people would think of as his prose masterpiece,…Read more Gérard de Nerval & Michael Wooff: A tale of the Valois, La Reine des poissons/ The Queen of the fish
Prose
Viola Ardone: La felicità è mangiare all’aperto/ Happiness is eating outside
"One day though, someone knocked at the door, and it was my father. " *La felicità è mangiare all'aperto Mia madre ha detto che, anche se tutto è diverso, proprio nulla è cambiato di Viola Ardone Prima di tutto hanno interrotto la scuola, poi hanno chiuso la palestra e infine i negozi e hanno detto…Read more Viola Ardone: La felicità è mangiare all’aperto/ Happiness is eating outside
Friedrich Christian Delius & Bob Cantrick: From Die linke Hand des Papstes/ The pope’s left hand (excerpt & interview)
“The hands, what is it about the hands? Now I realized why I was so fixated on them. I had already applied my imagination to them once before, exactly six months earlier, when, in front of the television, I had long pondered whether these hands, whether the right papal hand―I always assumed he was a…Read more Friedrich Christian Delius & Bob Cantrick: From Die linke Hand des Papstes/ The pope’s left hand (excerpt & interview)
Emanuela Cocco: Tu che eri ogni ragazza/ You who were every girl
Jungla suffers from aphasia. Jungla is quiet but violent, pretty but huge, Jungla has never been part of the world around her. Jungla has always been "outside the door waiting to be asked in." Tu che eri ogni ragazza Emanuela Cocco Jungla è Obelix. Questa è la sua categoria. Jungla la sente vibrare nel suono…Read more Emanuela Cocco: Tu che eri ogni ragazza/ You who were every girl
parallel texts: words reflected 