Dumitru Tsepeneag, A Novel to Read on a Train , translated from the French by Alistair Ian Blyth, Dalkey ...

  Lars Gustafsson (1936-2016)   On the Deepest Sounds   A stop exists in large organs, a thirty-two-foot bass, contra-fagotto   mighty thrum...

  ὁ Ἡράκλειτός φησι τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινὸν κόσμον εἶναι, τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι Heraclitus says that to ...

[C]hez l'homme normal le rêve éveillé (ce grand méconnu) existe à l'état presque constant. Même pendant la conver...

Everyone lives a life that is seen and a life that is unseen. Our dreams are a part of our unseen life. We often forget our own dreams and ...

 A la vérité, ni plus ni moins dans le texte qu'ailleurs, parler d'inconscient n'est dire autre chose qu'effet d'inconsc...

  Agrorum stercoratio   Vile excrementum stercus, sed inutile non es;     Tu nutrimento das alimenta meo. Johannes Audoenus (John Owen, 1564...

  (...) That shade. Once lying. Now standing. That a body? Yes. Say that a body. Somehow standing. In the dim void.  A place. Where none. A ...

 Art after art goes out, and all is night, See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of casuistry heaped o'er her head! Philo...

 No people sing with such pure voices as those who live in deepest Hell; what we take for the song of angels is their song. Franz Kafka, unp...

 The whole work [Adrian Leverkühn's Apocalypsis cum Figuris ] is dominated by the paradox (if it is a paradox) that in it dissonance sta...

  Hic Noe et filii ejus corpus Christi cum apostolis habens. Hic aves typum significant martyrum. Hic oves typum continent virginitate. Hic ...

 (...) By this time had they reach'd the Stygian pool, By which the masters swear, when on the stool Of worship, they their nodding chin...

 Here let me be bold enough to express an opinion born of the experiences of our own time. To a friend of enlightenment the word and concept...

 Il semble que l'esprit, offusqué des ténèbres de la vie extérieure, ne s’en affranchit jamais avec plus de facilité que sous le doux em...

The fascist leader types are frequently called hysterical. No matter how their attitude is arrived at, their hysterical behavior fulfills a ...

Le microscope nous découvre dans chaque objet, comme mille objets, qui ont échapé à notre connoissance. Combien y a-t-il dans chaque objet,...

Like Mathematics, like Contemplation, like 'Nonsense', Dream occupies a mental sphere of its own; and the debt owed to it by poetry,...

Luckless man Avoids the miserable bodkin's point, And, flinching from the insect's little sting,  In pitiful security keeps watch,  ...

Si prist l'ame a regarder entour d'elle s'en aucune maniere elle pourroit veoir comment elle estoit la venue et en regardant ...

  Alistair Ian Blyth, Card Catalogue , Dalkey Archive Press, 2020   ISBN-13: 978-1628972696   In the crepuscular Bucharest of the decade aft...

  Aureliu Manea, Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare ,  translated by Alistair Ian Blyth,  Routledge, 2020 In Imaginary Perfo...

Fresco, 1722, porch of the Kretzulescu Church, Calea Victoriei, Bucharest

"Where the hell am I?" A single point of rock, peak of a mountain range, one tooth set in the ancient jaw of a sunken world, pr...

Dumitru Tsepeneag, The Bulgarian Truck Even in the original, The Bulgarian Truck is a novel acutely conscious of its own translated...

καὶ καλῶς Ἡράκλειτος εἶπεν ὅτι αἱ ψυχαὶ ὀσμῶνται καθ᾽ ῞Αιδην. and Heraclitus was right in saying that souls employ smell in Hades. ...

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But ...

My hypothesis is this: that the spout is nothing but mist. And besides other reasons, to this conclusion I am impelled, by considerations t...

[ P ] seudologia phantastica [is] that form of hysteria which is characterized by a peculiar talent for believing one's own lies. Fo...

For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without th...

Four young soldiers on horseback, machine guns under their arms, proceeded warily along the road that followed the perimeter of the camp. W...

Iulian Ciocan, Before Brezhnev Died , Dalkey Archive Press, 2019 The time is the twilight of the decrepit Brezhnev regime, the pl...