Pangloss Publishing, based in Austin, Texas,
is proud to announce the publication of Thresholds: An Anthology of
World Literature from the Heart of Texas, with a preface by Andrew
Hurley. Thresholds is the work of Message in a Bottle Translators, a group
of Central Texas literary translators who gather regularly to read each
other’s work and provide feedback and encouragement.
| “These translations are, without exception,
first-rate—sometimes heartbreakingly moving, sometimes tough and
terse, sometimes haunting and mysterious . . . .”
From the preface by Andrew
Hurley, Translator of
Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
|
The poems, stories, and reminiscences
they present speak with authority of the Italian Resistance, the U.S.
invasion of Panama, a prostitute’s life in the High Atlas mountains of
Morocco, thirteenth-century Rus and nineteenth-century Russia,
glasnost-era Bulgaria, nineteenth-century Denmark, and twentieth-century
Latin America. Largely the work of authors outside our literary canon, the
contributions are organized according to thresholds their characters
cross, beginning with the passage from childhood innocence and ending with
the final transition from this life.
Contributors include Michele Aynesworth,
translator of Roberto Arlt’s Mad Toy; Marian Schwartz, prize-winning
translator of Nina Berberova’s Billancourt Tales; and Liliana Valenzuela,
translator of Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo. Making their literary
translation debuts are Traci Andrighetti, Tony Beckwith, Jane Chamberlain,
Jonathan Cole, Ingrid Lansford, Zoya Marincheva, and Jay Tkachuk.
“Message in a Bottle” is a metaphor for
the act of translating a narrative and casting it into the unknown.
Message in a Bottle Translators believe the global community we all seek
can best be realized through hearing and heeding the stories told by our
neighbors, walking in their shoes, and crossing their thresholds.
Thresholds ($12.50 paper, 152 pp.,
ISBN 0-615-12424-0) is available at Book People, Book Woman, and Borders
Bookstore in Austin or direct from Pangloss Publishing, PO Box 4492,
Austin, Texas, 78765-4492. Please make checks payable to Pangloss
Publishing, including $2.00 for shipping and handling and, for Texas
residents only, $1.03 sales tax.
For convenience,
Thresholds may be ordered by downloading the
pdf order form. |
