Category: Thursday Fiction Corner

September 22, 2020

Q&A: Susanne Fusso on The Nose and Other Stories

“The first major English translation of Gogol’s stories in more than twenty years, The Nose and Other Stories captures his humor and complexity brilliantly. This volume will prove to be a great read for students and Russian literature enthusiasts alike.”...

August 27, 2020

Q&A: Ch’oe Yun and Chungmoo Choi on There a Petal Silently Falls

“Ch’oe is a versatile writer who cloaks stark perceptions of individual and social trauma with elegant craft, poignant metaphor, and occasional, sardonic flashes of humor.” ~Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Seattle Times We’re closing out Women in Translation Month with a Q&A...

September 27, 2018

Book Excerpt! The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction

It is the final week of National Translation Month. All month long we have been featuring excerpts from recent titles and guest posts from translators and scholars. This week we have been focusing on Sinophone literature in English translation. Today...

September 26, 2018

Michael Berry On the Art of Translation and Wu He’s Experimental Novel Remains of Life

Yesterday on the blog we shared an excerpt from Chi Pang-yuan’s memoir The Great Flowing River that recounted the beginning of our “Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan” series, as part of our ongoing feature for National Translation Month. The experimental...

September 21, 2018

Alexei Remizov’s Early Modernist Masterpiece Sisters of the Cross

All this week we have highlighted our Russian Library series as part of our ongoing feature for National Translation Month. Today’s post is about the novel Sisters of the Cross by Alexei Remizov, translated by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy....

September 19, 2018

Iliazd’s novel Rapture

This week we are highlighting our Russian Library series as part of our ongoing feature for National Translation Month. Today’s post is about the experimental novel Rapture by Iliazd, translated by Thomas J. Kitson. If you haven’t yet, enter our...

April 12, 2018

A Contemplation of Konstantin Batyushkov’s Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry

“The poet sees a palace in his retreat— Happy because he dreams.” — Konstantin Batyushkov (1787-1855) In celebration of National Poetry Month, today we’re presenting you with this contemplation of Konstantin Batyushkov’s Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry (Presented and translated...

February 15, 2018

The Personal and the Political in Goralik’s Poetry

“I watch the falling of empires in my brain/ with ridiculous calm” Goralik’s next stops for her book tour in the US: PennState in State College, PA on February 16th at 3:30 pm Hunter College in New York, NY on...

February 15, 2018

REMORSE

This week, our featured book is Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology, edited and translated by R. Parthasarathy. Today we’re featuring some excerpts from the book–poems fit for the reserved and the brokenhearted. Enjoy! REMORSE My face is etched...

February 8, 2018

Introducing Linor Goralik’s Found Life

On Tuesday 02/13, Columbia University Press author Linor Goralik will appear at NYU’s Jordan Center to discuss Found Life, a collected volume in translation co-edited by Ainsley Morse, Maria Vassileva, and Maya Vinokour; this event marks the beginning of a...

November 2, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: Propaganda, the Absurd, and the Truth of Stalinist USSR in Andrei Platonov’s Plays

Welcome to Thursday Fiction Corner! This week Ani Kodzhabasheva, a PhD Candidate in Art History at Columbia University, considers Andrei Platonov’s portrayal of the USSR in relation to her experiences growing up in the former Eastern Bloc. In post-Communist Bulgaria,...

September 28, 2017

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Conflict between North and South Korea, on an Intimate Scale

Welcome to the Columbia University Press Thursday Fiction Corner! This week Ani Kodzhabasheva, a PhD candidate at Columbia University, reflects on Yi Mun-yol’s novel Meeting with My Brother and current events. Are you confused by the barrage of threats launched...