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Translations from « Libretto di transito », by Franca Mancinelli, in The Bitter Oleander, Plume, and The Fortnightly Review

Translations from Franca Mancinelli’s volume of short prose texts, Libretto di transito (Amos Edizioni, collana « A27 ») in The Bitter Oleander, Plume, and The Fortnightly Review.

From the selection in Plume:

« With your goodness, you continue to weave this space, to bring details and density to it. Your goodness is a thread that regenerates itself continually, forming a spider web. I’m wrapped up in it, a bit alive, a bit dead. But if you unwound the thread and came back to see, you’d find a cross surmounted by a circle. So thin and light, drawn in the dust. A single breath from you would be enough to free me. »

From the selection in The Fortnightly Review:

« In this landscape I can close my eyes and sleep, without feeling remorse about interrupting the train’s storytelling: how one lives, how the trees and houses are arranged, what human beings are doing. The story continues in silence while I think, pursuing other voices. It’s a journey taken so many times that little is needed to identify it. I look only at the rivers. The noise of the rails on the bridge awakens me. »

The entire book has now been published by the Bitter Oleander Press:

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