#regina ullmann

[lagaleriapopurri]

Regina Ullmann

[communicants]

A dream, above all, is the living mountain of the soul in this otherwise deathlike state.

Regina Ullmann, "The Old Man"

[communicants]

Read in 2017, #35

Regina Ullmann-The Country Road

[nathanabhaltersmith-shelf]

[nunccognosco]

We live outside of our being, and one day we are found, like a plant, slowly rotting into the earth. Then clarity must help us, if it comes at the right time, that clarity that many call love, the evergreen landscape of our own hearts.

Strawberries, Regina Ullmann (trans. Kurt Beals) 

[largethingslargerthings]

REVIEW IN SIX WORDS OR LESS: REGINA ULLMAN’S THE COUNTRY ROAD

WORLD IS ROOM OF CHILD’S WORLDS

[penamerican]

"It’s a strange thing about human thoughts. If I told someone this story, he would probably have trouble saying at this point what it was about, since nothing had been thought yet, nothing had been done. It had only been felt: just down the street, where the houses ended, was the small strawberry garden, pierced through by thousands of the sun’s trembling arrows." Kurt Beals, a 2014 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant recipient, translates "Strawberries," a short story by Swiss writer Regina Ullmann, who was greatly admired by Musil, Mann, Hesse, and Rilke. Beals's translation of Ullmann's short story collection is forthcoming from New Directions. You can also read Beals's essay on translating Ullmann here. http://www.pen.org/short-story/strawberries