Literature in Translation

Literature in Translation |

from The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka

edited by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch

“The aphorist Elias Canetti, drawing on his own reading experience, noted: ‘The great aphorists read as though they had all known one another well.’ This was certainly not true of Kafka.”

Literature in Translation |

“Full Throttle,” “Hand,” “We” & “When”

late poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Daniel Tobin

“Even in / the most benevolent / hand, there was still / money, and there is more / than enough of death.”

Literature in Translation |

from 13 Lunas 13 / 13 Moons 13

poems by Tina Escaja, translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra

“moment for rest, / for the simple intimation of a dead time / in order to think of you, / to invite you to my table, / to invoke women who were of my blood and inhabit an uncertain memory …”