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Category: Crystal Cabinets

  • Tres Impostores Catalanes
    Three Works, Three Lives

    Thanks to three narratives of three very different kinds — a work of literary non-fiction, a documentary film, and an historical novel — I recently came in contact with three accomplished impostors from Catalonia. All three were born in Barcelona between 1912 and 1921, all fought — well, in one case, avoided fighting — on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, and all three became historical figures of the 20th Century — well,  in one case, claimed to be such a figure — by means of stunning acts of trickery and deception. 

  • Notes on Primero Sueño (First Dream) lines 1-24

    This translation began as a crib to help me memorize these lines, which I find to be part of one of the most remarkable poems ever written.  As I began to live with these lines, slowly adding one per day to my rituals of memory, as the words became more and more a part of the rhythmic structure of my world (this is what always happens when I memorize a poem that turns out to be worth […]

  • Analyzing “The Greta Phenomenon” Objectively

    Translator’s note: Although I disagree, sometimes strongly, with many of the ideas and positions in the following analysis, I believe it expresses an important point of view that needs to be encountered and debated in the English-speaking world, especially among people concerned about climate change and the impending environmental crisis. That’s why I’ve translated it into English, and offer it freely to anyone who wants to read it, use it, adapt it, or correct it.  –David Brendan […]

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