asymptote journal – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the URochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:04:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Newest Issue from Asymptote /College/translation/threepercent/2012/07/19/newest-issue-from-asymptote/ /College/translation/threepercent/2012/07/19/newest-issue-from-asymptote/#respond Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:10:00 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2012/07/19/newest-issue-from-asymptote/ Click here to read the , an online literary journal dedicated to publishing contemporary works in translation.

This issue includes a riveting excerpt from new book, Freud’s Sister, in which Dr. Freud visits his psychologically troubled sister at a carnival-style fundraiser hosted by her psychiatric ward. “But who said anything about healing? After all, no one here is sick,” she protests, in response to his accusations; “everyone here simply lives in his own world.”

There’s also a feature on Romanian poets (check out Mircea Ivănescu’s stirring and Ileana Mǎlǎncioiu’s haunting ).

P.S.: As a bonus, Asymptote has embedded MP3s so you can listen to these pieces in the original language. Pretty cool.

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Announcing the launch of ASYMPTOTE, a new international literary journal dedicated to the art and practice of translation. Founded out of Singapore, with editors scattered across the globe, ASYMPTOTE offers a well-calibrated window on world literature, in all its forms.

Issue Jan 2011 features original essays by Mary Gaitskill and Alain de Botton, fiction by Thomas Bernhard and Yoram Kaniuk, poetry by Aimé Césaire, Tan Chee Lay, and Ko Un, drama by Toshiki Okada, and nonfiction by Masahiko Fujiwara and Pablo Martín Ruiz. In total, ASYMPTOTE presents more than thirty-five authors via some of the finest translators working today, including Clayton Eshleman, Forrest Gander, Soren Gauger, Rika Lesser, Pierre Joris and Howard Goldblatt. Also in ASYMPTOTE’s debut issue are visual poems (one on video from Iceland), critical essays, and reviews of the latest books. All of it is available free online at our aesthetically exciting website, where we post not only the translated texts, but also, when available, the works in their original languages, audio recordings of those originals, and accompanying artwork specially curated for each issue.

Asymptote Issue One is available now, by clicking here:

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