Marian Schwartz » Subtropics http://marianschwartz.com Translations from the Russian Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:12:32 +0000 en hourly 1 “Seaweed Mattress” http://marianschwartz.com/2010/04/seaweed-mattress/ http://marianschwartz.com/2010/04/seaweed-mattress/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:15:59 +0000 mbs http://marianschwartz.com/2010/04/seaweed-mattress/ image thumb6 “Seaweed Mattress” Subtropics has published my translation of Mark Girshin’s “Seaweed Mattress,” a series of vignettes about a childhood spent in Odessa in the 1910s and 1920s, part of his longer memoir, Mosaic.  The title refers to the custom there, on the Black Sea, of stuffing mattresses with seaweed rather than straw.  In Anastasia Kozak’s interview with Girshin for the magazine, Girshin says he is currently working on a novel, Genghis Khan with a Telephone, “which was how Nikolai Bukharin referred to Stalin.”

Girshin emigrated to the United States decades ago and has a fine body of work that finds its first US audience with this publication.  May he have many more.

]]> http://marianschwartz.com/2010/04/seaweed-mattress/feed/ 0 Olga Slavnikova’s “Substance” http://marianschwartz.com/2009/02/slavnikova-substance/ http://marianschwartz.com/2009/02/slavnikova-substance/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:14:14 +0000 mbs http://marianschwartz.com/?p=698 Subtropics has just published my translation of Olga Slavnikova's "Substance," one of twelve stories loosely connected by a train theme written for Russian Railroads and recently published by AST in a single volume as Liubov' v sed'mom vagone (Love in Train Car No. 7).

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