Words Without Borders


	Words Without Borders

Socratoad

1-8-2008 6:16 PM

331 views

Socratoad says:

A chance to read English translations of authors from around the world.

Intriguing methinks.

2 Comments |

Add a Comment

1-8-2008 9:58 PM

haraya

One of my favorite sites to visit

Translation is a currency.

1-8-2008 11:38 PM

Deepti

I visit this site a lot too...great find Soc!

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Lillian Gish

Chemical breakthrough turns sawdust into b...

11 Ways to Build an Extraordinary Life

The power of one

Me And My Girls

Numbers were a late invention.

More clips from Socratoad

In This Economy, Failure is an Option

The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged, Either

Animal Diversity Web

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from January 8, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/56a3cd9a-e1e8-4887-ac78-21f3c153b9f1/E144F3A5-0226-4BD2-A3D5-2E0CC1FAB181/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/" href="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wordswithoutborders.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wordswithoutborders.org/img/1125B21F-AE57-4D8A-9B2D-3FB2C508E550" alt="Words Without Borders. The Online Magazine for International Literature" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/"><DIV id="contMain" name="contMain">
               <DIV class="rule"><P><IMG class="imageLeft" alt="image" src="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/images/homepage2.jpg" /></P><H1>January 2008</H1>Vice and virtue clash daily round the world, and while the definition of sin may vary, its literary allure is universal. Perhaps that’s because no matter how  easy we think moral failings are to finger, in actuality their elusiveness on the page is what makes for the stuff of great literature. “It’s so easy to forget . . . ” says a  former student of an envious teacher; yet do moral failings arise because it’s  easy to forget, or because it’s even easier to harbor and remember? Maya Arad,  Roberto Bolaño, Lars Saabye Christensen, Doris Kareva, Danilo Kiš , Mathieu  Lindon, Sérgio Rodrigues, Kjell Westo, and Yan Lianke put envy, greed, pride,  sloth, gluttony, anger, and lust to thought-provoking ends for the New Year.</DIV><BR />            </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/"><DIV class="featured"><H1>NEW ON THE BOOKSHELF</H1> <IMG align="left" src="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/images/Nine.Stasiuktn" />






This month, there's solace in words at <A href="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=Bookshelf"> Dorothea Dieckmann's <EM>Guantanamo</EM>, allusions fill Aharon Megged's <EM>The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump</EM>  and Eastern Europe writhes under capitalism in Andrzej Stasiuk's <EM>Nine</EM></A>.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E144F3A5-0226-4BD2-A3D5-2E0CC1FAB181/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from Socratoad

Today's Top Clips