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Poems by Radu Vancu

[from the volume Flowered String, Max Blecher Publishing House, 2012] translation from Romanian by Nigel Walker & Zenovia Popa [MTTLC student] click pentru versiunea română     What is one of your dead people telling you the dearest, the most beloved among the dead, when your heart allows you to dream him:   ’Do not […]

Sher Khan

by Andrei Mocuța Translation from Romanian by Nigel Walker and Cristina Baciu, MTTLC student   pentru versiunea română click aici              Șercan was the last descendant of the Sher Khan tribe located somewhere in Eastern Africa. The following pieces of information are not meant to be strictly biographical and it would give me great pleasure if […]

The House with no Thought

by V. Leac Translation from Romanian by A C Clarke and Alexandra Sârbu pentru versiunea română click aici   How did I end up living on Teiului Street, on the outskirts of a luxurious neighbourhood, in a small one bedroom apartment which I call the Dalmatian cage, discreetly placed behind a garage – to be more […]

Bătrînul Harriutiunian credea în comunism

de Daniel Vighi for the English version click here   Am pornit cu toţii în trombă din parcul situat în faţa Azilului de bătrîni. Am părăsit banca, copii rroma, fata şi băiatul cu cizmele lui de gumă, proaspăt revenit de la munca pe care o efectuase la grajdul dărăpănat în care erau adăpostite două iepe costelive, […]

The spider

  by Bogdan Mureşanu Translation from Romanian by Dorothy McCarthy and Diana Maftei [MTTLC student] pentru versiunea română click aici    Every time her thoughts drifted towards him, she felt a flight of butterflies fluttering in her stomach, until she started feeling queasy and everything began to spin maddeningly. Nothing was out of the ordinary except […]

Notes from a tourist

  by Mircea Pora Translation from Romanian by Caroline Carver and Zenovia Popa pentru versiunea română click aici     I am not at all sorry I am in this country. Just a few more years and the wandering around or being a tourist – to use a more aristocratic word – shall come to an […]

Ionică

                                   by Gheorghe Sechesan  Translation from Romanian by Roxana-Andreea Dragu, MTTLC student pentru versiunea română click aici   –          It was hardly by the book, said the Lady-angel, still filing the tips of her wings, an activity which she had started in one of the previous episodes, but hadn’t finished until the present time (the current […]

Marişca

by Bogdan Munteanu Translation from Romanian by Dorothy McCarthy and Raisa Lambru, MTTLC student pentru versiunea română click aici   You might think that Marişca is an irresistible woman. That she’s damn pretty, that she’s got naturally curly hair, either blonde or dark, depends which you like, that she’s joyful, that she’s got something attractive about […]

The Nazism of the weak

de Ştefan Bolea translation from Romanian by Alina-Olimpia Miron   click aici pentru versiunea română   The strong must be protected from the weak. [Friedrich Nietzsche]   Just like the Nazis were trying to create super-humans, thus marginalizing the weak, now we’re witnessing the reverse: the creation of sub-humans and the assassination of the strong. […]

The Hallucinogenetic Legacy

by Iulian Tănase translated by Raisa Lambru [MTTLC student]   pentru versiunea română click aici   The female is hallucinogenic. The leaves of the male look different and they are harmless. The female must keep away from the male, if she wishes to remain with her availability intact. Loneliness is hallucinogenic and the female knows […]

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