Karel Čapek & Esperanto (15): La Nica Literatura Revuo

Jen kompleta kaj ĝisdatigita listo da tradukoj el rakontoj de la ĉeĥa verkisto Karel Čapek aperintaj en La Nica Literatura Revuo:

• El la opinioj de l' kato [Miloŝ LUKAS], vol. 1, n-ro 1, Septembro-Oktobro 1955, p. 18
• Kien foriĝas la libroj [Miloŝ LUKAS], vol.1, n-ro 2, Novembro-Decembro 1955, p. 53-55
• Pri malnovaj leteroj [Miloŝ LUKAS],vol. 1, n-ro 3, Januaro-Februaro 1956, p. 82-84
• La arda koro de l' domo [Miloŝ LUKAŜ], vol. 2, n-ro 3, Januaro-Februaro 1957, p. 92-93
• Ŝtelita kakto [Miloŝ LUKAS], vol. 3, n-ro 2, Novembro-Decembro 1957, p. 50-56
• Jura kazo [Josef CHVOSTA], vol. 3, n-ro 6, Julio-Aŭgusto 1958, p. 232-234
• Malgranda kaj granda [Miloŝ LUKAŜ], vol. 4, n-ro 3, Januaro-Februaro 1959, p. 115-117
• Pri specialaj vinoj [Miloŝ LUKAŜ], vol. 4, n-ro 4, Marto-Aprilo 1959, p. 158-159
• Kolekto de poŝtmarkoj [Miloŝ LUKAŜ], vol. 5, n-ro 2, Novembro-Decembro 1959, p. 69-74
• Legaĵo--- afero laŭcirkonstanca [Miloŝ LUKAŜ], volumo 5, n-ro 6 (n-ro 30), vol. 5, n-ro 6, Julio-Aŭgusto 1960, p. 211-213
• Kamentuboj [Miloŝ LUKAŜ], vol. 6, n-ro 2, Novembro-Decembro 1960, p. 48-49
• Pri malprogreso de la tempo [Josef CHVOSTA], vol. 6, n-ro 4 (n-ro 34), Marto-Aprilo 1961, p. 152-156

Verkoj de Čapek aperis en ĉiu el la sep volumoj de la revuo, kiu aperis inter 1955 kaj 1962. Don Harlow enretigis la tutan numeraron, kaj lia laboro estas konservita ĉe nova retejo Literaturo.org.

Witold Gombrowicz on Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

This might be slightly out of the range of this blog, except that I have blogged in English as well as in Esperanto about both of these writers. But there's another connection, which relates also to interlinguistics, i.e. the history of artificial languages and particularly the ars combinatoria, which I've written about in connection with Borges. Gombrowicz, living in exile in Argentina, encountered Borges and had a low opinion of him, documented in his Diary:

Witold Gombrowicz on Jorge Luis Borges

The following sentence, from an entry in volume 3, 1962, is the reason for me mentioning this here:

What could arouse greater enthusiasm in pure-blooded writers than this kind of bloodless, literary, verbal, unseeing writer who sees nothing except his own mental combinations? [Boldface mine—RD]

Witold Gombrowicz

There is no indication that Gombrowicz has in mind a connection between Borges's combinatorial proclivities mentioned here and the combinatorial logic behind the ars combinatoria or the characteristica universalis, but I made the connection, and that's good enough for me.

Paul Olchvary interview

An interview with Paul Olchvary, publisher of New Europe Books, has just appeared:

"Mom says you were dumb to publish books, because you don’t make any money" - hlo.hu
Hungarian Literature Online, 10. 09. 2017

Although it is not mentioned in this interview, Paul published the English translation of Sándor Szathmári's landmark utopian/ dystopian novel Voyage to Kazohinia, written in Hungarian and Esperanto. He contacted me first of all to blurb his edition of the novel (the first published in the USA) and then to participate in a symposium on Szathmári at the Hungarian Consulate in New York City.

Paul summarizes his background and the path that led him to writing, translation, and publishing. He discusses the situation of translation and small presses as well as the process of translation. Also mentioned are some Hungarian authors he has worked on and with.

Congratulations to Paul on receiving this well-deserved public exposure!

Marjorie Boulton died / mortis (2)

Obituary: Esperanto poet Marjorie Boulton by Stuart Rust, Oxford Mail, 28 September 2017.

"A POET who was a candidate for the Nobel prize for literature has died aged 93."