from Travels in Ecuador - Asymptote By the Shore of Silver Lake: Present Life—Ecuadorian Journey (II)I hung up the phone and let out a sigh of relief.My friend Marco wasn’t home, so I left a message with his father. At least...

#Taiwan literature #Ecuador #SanMao #三毛 #萬水千山走遍 "Traversing Myriad Rivers and Mountains remains among the most widely read Chinese-language accounts of #LatinAmerica" #AsymptoteJournal www.asymptotejournal.com/nonfiction/t... @vivianwu.bsky.social

An interview with László Krasznahorkai - Asymptote Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai's literary signature is his disenchantment with the period, “the dot” that he considers “an artificial border between sentences.&#82...

A 2016 interview with #LaszloKrasznahorkai www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an... #AsymptoteJournal #Nobel #literature

An Interview with Anton Hur - Asymptote Anton Hur is a genuine literary force. As one of the most prolific translators of Korean literature, and an author, too, since the publication of Towards Eternity (HarperVia) in 2024, he has...

" #AntonHur has played a huge role in reshaping the Anglosphere’s understanding of #Korean books and culture." #translation #koreanliterature www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an... #AsymptoteJournal #TowardEternity #AI #language

Weekly Dispatches From the Frontlines of World Literature - Asymptote Blog The latest in literary news from Hong Kong, Mexico, and Kenya!

"The #HongKong Film Archive announced “Dancing Between Words and Images: Hong Kong Film and Literature”: 17 films from the 1940s to the present, divided into sections like “Adaptations from Classic Literature” and “Her Stories in the City."
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Translation Tuesday: Three Poems by Wen Yiduo - Asymptote Blog Just hear the gunfire! Death is roaring, reaving. / Silent night, how could you keep my heart from heaving?

" #WenYiduo, #聞一多 a key figure in the “formalist school” of Republican #China’s poets in the 20s, rejected the idea that Chinese poetry should be in free verse." "No, silent night. I can’t, won’t take your bribe." www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/01... #asymptotejournal #translation #AZAForeman

What’s New in Translation: January 2025 - Asymptote Blog Discover new work from Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Greece, Italy, China, Sweden, Germany, Chile, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo!

#残雪 “The thirteen stories in #CanXue’s new collection are a feat of imagination. From a cyclops with one leg shorter than the other to glowing poisonous skies that transform human bodies” www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/01... #chineseliterature #translation #asymptotejournal #shortstories

Translation Tuesday: An Excerpt from Yung Yung by Lo Yu - Asymptote Blog In truth you are her muse. She writes about you; she can only write about you.

#Hongkong lit by #LoYu “A member of the Hong Kong diaspora travels to Paris with her girlfriend, haunted by thoughts of another lover, she has left behind in London. Lo Yu’s prose has an urgent, almost frantic quality.“ www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/12... #FionTse #AsymptoteJournal

Poachers - Asymptote Elisa is not afraid anymore, I think as I walk along the dead tracks of the abandoned railway line, at least, in this inferno, I think, Elisa is not afraid anymore, it’s the lull of hopelessness...

Still one of the best novellas I have ever read...
Cacciatori di frodo [Poachers]
by Alessandro Cinquegrani
#excerpt in #translation #mentalhealth #Asymptotejournal #streamofconsciousness
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Translation Tuesday: “On the Mountain” by Grazia Deledda - Asymptote Blog The rain stops, the clouds come undone, and great strips of azure sky illumine the air. A fiery eye appears in the distance.

"The rain stops, the clouds come undone, and great strips of azure sky illumine the air. A fiery eye appears in the distance." #GraziaDeledda
#Italianliterature #NobelPrize #womenintranslation
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Guide Us, Chicken Booty! - Asymptote The asphalt roads in Tainan are steaming, the sun-scorched streets rippling before our eyes. Jen steers the scooter in a zigzag, our hair fermenting inside our helmets, the clammy breeze blowing sea s...

A taste of #tainan lifestyle in a short story by #何玟珒 #HeWunJin translated in #Asymptotejournal “Seriously, how rural is Tainan? Chickens get to roam on the street?” Jen eyes the voluptuous white bird. “Hey, I dare you to catch it. An extra dish for dinner!” www.asymptotejournal.com/fiction/guid...