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Catalonia

It is music: it has come from a heart. J.S.B. At four in the afternoon the old man sat up in bed and said Kaspar, son, where are you? B flat, A, D flat, B, C....

Gottfried Heinrich’s Dream

Jaume Cabré

12 min

Yugoslavia

It happened in 1923 or 1924. In Hamburg, I think. During a time of stock-market disasters and giddy devaluation: the daily wages of a dock laborer came to seventeen billion marks, and decent prostitutes charged three...

Last Respects

Danilo Kiš

10 min

PolandUSA

I hail from a town, which has made a great name for itself in the world; everywhere, in every corner of the Diaspora, its name is and stories are told about it, hundred-year-old Chelm stories. It...

The Big Light

Eliezer Bloom

7 min

USA

The first time, he was fishing with Danny. fishing was a sacrament, and therefore, after the strike, when his head was clear, there was the blurry aftertaste of ritual: the casting of the spoon in lazy...

The Lightning Man

David Means

14 min