Dialogue on the Threshold
14 October 2011

Les défauts de l'esprit

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Une traduction est un jugement, un commentaire, c'est un miroir où l'auteur peut comtempler à son aise les défauts de son esprit. Un...
09 October 2011

Ô humanité! Ô turpitude!

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La Bêtise publique me submerge. (...) La Bourgeoisie est tellement ahurie qu'elle n'a plus même l'instinct de se défendre. -- E...
05 October 2011

cette vieille canaillerie immuable et inébranlable

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Et au fond toujours cette vieille canaillerie immuable et inébranlable. C'est là la base. Ah! comme il vous en passe sous les yeux! De t...
04 October 2011

le cimetière oriental

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Le cimetière oriental est une des belles choses de l'Orient. Il n'a pas ce caractère profondément agaçant que je trouve chez nous à ...

three exclamations

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Mets ton masque Sokolov, que tes fermentations anaérobies fassent éclater les tubas de ta renommée et que tes vents irrépressibles transfor...
02 September 2011

Hypnos

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L'homme se plaît à exercer les forces de son corps & de son intelligence ; il sent que l'oisiveté est contraire à son être , ...
30 August 2011

L’incommensurable goujaterie

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C’était le grand bagne de l’Amérique transporté sur notre continent ; c’était enfin, l’immense, la profonde, l’incommensurable goujaterie d...
13 July 2011

The Days of the King

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Filip Florian's novel The Days of the King (Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt, 2011) is at Read This Next for the week of 11 July 2011 Intervi...
11 July 2011

Dies caniculares

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The cockroach in Russian literature (3): Gogol (3)

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Покой был известного рода, ибо гостиница была тоже известного рода, то есть именно такая, как бывают гостиницы в губернских горо...
08 July 2011

The Cockroach in Russian Literature (2): Gogol (2)

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Огромный, величиною почти с слона, таракан остановился у дверей и просунул свои усы. Полное собрание сочинений в 14 томах (1937-1952) , Том ...
26 May 2011

Gogolian piles (4)

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(v) If only you knew how sorry I was to find not you but rather the note you left on my desk. Had I returned but a minute earlier, I might s...

Gogolian piles (3)

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(iv) "Cat's mint" (i.e. catsfoot). Glechoma hedera terrestris, alleviates piles. Arzamas region medicinal herbarium Кошечья м...

Gogolian piles (2)

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(iii) Having ordered a very light supper, which consisted of only a sucking pig, Chichikov straight away undressed and, climbing under the ...
25 May 2011

Gogolian piles (1)

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(i) "Would you like to take some snuff? It chases away headaches and gloomy moods; it is even good for treating haemorrhoids." Say...
17 May 2011

исполинский образ скуки

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Хотя бы только пожелать так, хотя бы только насильно заставить себя это сделать, ухватиться бы за этот <день>, как утопающий хватает...
15 May 2011

The proscenium of eternity

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Creation sometimes pours into the spiritual eye the radiance of heaven. The green mountains that glimmer in a summer gloaming from the dusky...
18 April 2011

Сон и Явь

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Даниил Иванович говорил: надо подойти к пропасти, стать на самом краю ее, взглянуть вниз и не упасть. Чинари глава из книги Якова Семено...
23 February 2011

Before Brezhnev Died

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Iulian Ciocan, Înainte să moară Brejnev (Before Brezhnev Died). Polirom: Jassy, 2007. 173 pp. Before Brezhnev Died by Iulian Ciocan is...
20 February 2011

The Beckett Bowel Books

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Samuel Beckett, letter to Mary Manning Howe, sent from Hamburg on 14 November 1936 ... I am exhorted to ablate 33.3 recurring to all eternit...
06 February 2011

The ruins of Babel

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Babylon is a towne not very great but very populous, and of great traffike of strangers, for that it is the way to Persia, Turkia and Arabi...
17 January 2011

British grossièreté

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In a most curious and rare tract, entitled A Joco-serious Discourse in two Dialogues, between a Northumberland Gentleman and his Tenant, a S...
16 December 2010

Historia cicatricosa

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Scars can be literal or metaphorical, physical or psychical. The scar is the memory of the wound, imprinted on the warp and weft of the fles...
07 December 2010

Un ciel de gouffre / Au coeur du gouffre

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Paris-Cauchemar (1870-1871) À Mr. Étienne R. Veron de Braïla Un ciel de gouffre, et des images très opaques, Nuit d'horreur, - mais, par...
28 November 2010

Thibault

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Mais bientôt les bizarreries s’accusèrent davantage, et il devenait parfois difficile de les excuser, car elles sortaient du domaine de la...
02 November 2010

Uri potest in gehenna, non exuri

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God sealed us, in imprinting his Image in our soules, and in the powers thereof, at our creation; and so, every man hath this seale, and he ...
01 November 2010

Immanent justice

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"Be virtuous, don't be greedy, Divine justice will not spare you." Dîmbovița valley, Argeș Bananas
26 October 2010

Jonah

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In the deep places of the earth, in the utmost depths of the sea, in the alveoli of the lungs, in the ventricles of the heart, in the caviti...
24 October 2010

Melancholia flatuosa

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Melancholia Flatuosa multiplicem ob causam difficilis curationis est. Nam praeter vehementem venarum meseraicarum a crassa crudaque materia,...
05 October 2010

Quare creatae sunt sternutationes?

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Ebraeis sternutare est Atasch ; unde Thalmudistarum verbale Ittonsch , sternutationem notat. Iidem apud Buxtorfium in Lex. Thalmudico disti...
12 September 2010

1:1

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1:1 at the Romanian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2010. Installation created by Romina Grillo, Ciprian Rășoiu, Liviu Vasiu, Mate...
03 September 2010

The Immediate Unreality

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Max Blecher was born on 8 September 1909 in Botoșani, a provincial town in northern Moldavia. Up until the Second World War, Botoșani was ...

Quare morieris?

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That God should let my soul fall out of his hand, into a bottomless pit, and roll an unremovable stone upon it, and leave it to that which...
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