{"id":7881,"date":"2016-04-05T23:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T12:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2019-10-12T12:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T01:01:17","slug":"joseph-olenins-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=7881","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Olenin’s Coat"},"content":{"rendered":"

By coincidence, a literary journal named The Cossack Review<\/em> has accepted my translation of a story set in Russia and Ukraine. There are no cossacks in the story, but there is a quirky Russian man who falls in love with a coat. He is alone, winter is long, his sojourn in the Russian countryside is monotonous and tedious, and now he is besotted with a velvet and sable coat that is not his.<\/p>\n

You can read ‘Joseph Olenin’s Coat’, my translation of ‘Le Manteau de Joseph Ol\u00e9nine’ by Eug\u00e8ne-Melchior de Vog\u00fc\u00e9 (or Marie-Eug\u00e8ne-Melchior, Vicomte de Vog\u00fc\u00e9!), in Issue 6 of The Cossack Review,<\/a><\/em> out now. The original was published in 1886 in an illustrated review, Les Lettres et les Arts<\/em>. Above, in the header, is a part of the decorative first page as it appeared in the Paris journal. And here’s one of the images that appeared mid-story:<\/p>\n

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\u2018Contemplation\u2019 by M. H. Gray, illustration for \u2018Le Manteau de Joseph Ol\u00e9nine\u2019 in \u2018Les Lettres et les Arts\u2019, Paris, 1 July 1886<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And here’s the cover of the spring 2016 issue of The Cossack Review<\/em> (not from Paris, nor from Russia, but from America):<\/p>\n

Issue 6 features new prose, poetry, and translation from twenty-five contributors and three translators.
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A few weeks ago I told a friend that I do read Facebook but I never<\/em> write on it. Well, today – never say never – I wrote on it for the first time, after reading, somewhere, recommendations for promoting one’s own writing. Apparently I was mad not to be taking advantage of it.<\/p>\n

I much prefer blogging. I’ve enjoyed writing this post today, hunting down the picture and thinking about my words. Facebook seems too narrow by comparison; but perhaps I should look at it like one of those poster pillars we see in city centres, where people can legally post bills. So today, I posted a bill advertising the journal that has very kindly published my translation.<\/p>\n

If you read ‘Joseph Olenin’s Coat’, let me know.<\/p>\n

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By coincidence, a literary journal named The Cossack Review has accepted my translation of a story set in Russia and Ukraine. There are no cossacks in the story, but there is a quirky Russian man who falls in love with a coat. He is alone, winter is long, his sojourn in the Russian countryside is … <\/p>\n

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