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THE ART OF WARSUN-TZUEdited, Translated, and with anIntroduction by John MinfordPenguin Classics384 pp.0-14-043919-6 $14.00THE DESERT FATHERSSAYINGS OF THEEARLY CHRISTIAN MONKSTranslated, Edited, and with anIntroduction by Benedicta WardPenguin Classics304 pp.0-14-044731-8 $12.00THE BLACK TULIPALEXANDRE DUMASTranslated with an Introductionand Notes by Robin BussPenguin Classics288 pp.0-14-044892-6 $12.00THE INTERIOR CASTLEST. TERESA OF AVILANewly Translated with anIntroduction by Mirabai StarrThe first translation of the greatmystic saint’s most powerful andinfluential work by anyone outsidethe Catholic Church.Riverhead192 pp.1-57322-248-8 $22.95DEMOCRACY IN AMERICAAND TWO ESSAYS ON AMERICAALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLENewly Translated by Gerald BevanIntroduction by Isaac KramnickNotes by Jeff SelingerPenguin Classics896 pp.0-14-044760-1 $10.00FRAGMENTSTHE COLLECTEDWISDOM OF HERACLITUSTranslated by Brooks HaxtonForeword by James HillmanPenguin Classics128 pp.0-14-243765-4 $14.00HOMERIC HYMNSNew Translationby Jules CashfordIntroduction and Notesby Nicholas RichardsonPenguin Classics224 pp.0-14-043782-7 $12.00THE GREEK SOPHISTSTranslated by John Dillonand Tania GergelIntroduction by John DillonPenguin Classics256 pp.0-14-043689-8 $14.00SWANN’S WAYMARCEL PROUSTTranslated by Lydia DavisChristopher Prendergast,General EditorViking will publish volume II of In Searchof Lost Time, In The Shadows of Young Girlsin Flower, in February 2004.Viking496 pp.0-670-03245-X $27.95LAZARILLO DE TORMESand THE SWINDLERTWO SPANISHPICARESQUE NOVELSTranslated with an Introductionand Notes by Michael AlpertPenguin Classics240 pp.0-14-044900-0 $14.00The first major new translations of Freud in more thanthirty years—available only from Penguin Classicsf reudT H E N E W P E N G U I NADAM PHILLIPS, GENERAL EDITOR“A bold attempt to present Freud as an important Europeanwriter whose work inspired twentieth-century artists, filmmakers,and poets....Penguin should be congratulated on thisinnovative and timely project.” —The Observer (UK)“Each volume...comes with an introduction by a leading literarycritic, thinker, or historian....This has the effect not so muchof removing Freud from any therapeutic project as of placinghim at the very centre of the crowded intersection which iscontemporary thought.” —Lisa Appignanesi, co-author ofFreud’s WomenFor more information on the individual and forthcoming titles inThe New Penguin Freud Series go to www.penguin.com/pcfreud“THE WOLFMAN”AND OTHER CASESTranslated by Louise Adey HuishIntroduction by Gillian BeerPenguin Classics 384 pp. 0-14-243745-X $15.00THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGYOF EVERYDAY LIFETranslated by Anthea BellIntroduction by Paul KeeganPenguin Classics 320 pp. 0-14-243743-3 $14.00THE SCHREBER CASETranslated by Andrew WebberIntroduction by Colin MacCabePenguin Classics 96 pp. 0-14-243742-5 $12.00THE JOKE AND ITS RELATIONTO THE UNCONSCIOUSTranslated by Joyce CrickIntroduction by John CareyPenguin Classics 320 pp. 0-14-243744-1 $14.00THE UNCANNYTranslated by David McClintockIntroduction by Hugh HaughtonPenguin Classics 176 pp. 0-14-243747-6 $13.00PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 www.penguin.com/academicTranslation Review 71
BOOK REVIEWTHE RETURN OF THE RIVER, by Roberto Sosa.Translated by Jo Anne Engelbert. Willimantic,Connecticut: Curbstone, 2002Steven F. White, ReviewerThe Return of the River, winner of the 2003 NationalTranslation Award, contains some of the most strikingcontemporary poems being written in the Spanish languageand has been translated here in resoundingly effectiveand innovative ways by Jo Anne Engelbert, who hasdedicated many years to the task of presenting the workof Honduran Roberto Sosa to readers in English. It ishard to believe that this remarkable poet will soon turn75, yet still is not very well known outside LatinAmerica. This volume of his selected poems, composedover some forty years, presented in a bilingual edition byCurbstone Press, and now recognized by the AmericanLiterary Translators Association, should be the perfectway to begin to rectify this situation.A close look at the trajectory of Sosa’s writingreveals that the poet experienced tremendous stylisticand thematic breakthroughs in the late 1960s and early1970s with the publication of the two volumes Lospobres (The Poor) and Un mundo para todos dividido (AWorld for All, Divided). For once, there was justice:respectively, the books received Spain’s prestigiousAdonais Prize and Cuba’s Casa de las Américas Prize. Infact, I would suggest that readers dive into The Return ofthe River and begin with these powerful poems that constitutepp. 61–155. This is the heart of Sosa’s mostaccomplished work, such as the tour de force “Mipadre”/ “My Father” (from Los pobres), which movesaudiences to tears and enthusiastic applause:Caminaba— doy mi testimonio —del brazo de fantasmasque lo llevaron a ninguna parte.Caíaabandono abajo, cada vez más abajo,más abajocon ayes sin sonidorepitiendo ruidos no aprendidos,buscando continuamenteel encuentro con los arrullos dentro de la apariencia.He was walking —I swear it —Arm in arm with ghostsleading him nowhere.He was fallinginto abandonment, deeper and deeper,deeper still,uttering silent moans,repeating unlearned soundstrying to find a lullabywithin appearances.“La hora baja” / “Qualms” (from Un mundo para todosdividido) contains chilling, engaged enigmas that enablethe poem simultaneously to live in the Honduras of thepoet’s lifetime and to inhabit other geographic and temporalboundaries:Dando vueltas y cambios crecimos duramente.De nosotrosse levantaronlos jueces de dos caras; los perseguidoresde cien ojos, veloces en la bruma y alegresconsumidores de distancias; los delatores fáciles;los verdugos sedientos de púrpura; los falsos testigoscreadores de la gráfica del humo; los pacienteshacedores de nocturnos cuchillos.Algunos dijeron: es el destinoque nos fue asignado y huyerondejando la noche enterrada. Otrosprefirieron encerrarse entre cuatro paredes sin principioni fin.Pero todos nosotros — a cierta hora — recorremosla callejuela de nuestro pasadode donde volvemoscon los cabellos tintos en sangre.72 Translation Review
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