Comments on: Millenium Est: Romanian Anthology

By: Constantin ROMAN

Constantin ROMAN — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:43:12 +0000

There are sadly very few books on Romanian culture/social history available in English and practically non in bookshops.
Try this electronic Anthology downloadable online:
“Blouse Roumaine – the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women” (see above URL)

with a few extracts from readers impressions;

http://www.romanianstudies.org/content/

best wishes
editor

By: Imi dati voie sa ma laud? « Jurnalist provincial

Imi dati voie sa ma laud? « Jurnalist provincial — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:07:03 +0000

[...] american Jeff Vandermeer alaturi de editorul roman Horia Nicola Ursu au realizat o miniantologie de texte fantastice [...]

By: Michael Bishop

Michael Bishop — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:47:18 +0000

I’ll do it.

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:41:22 +0000

I’ll do my best. So many books, so little time. Actually, if you want to put Jim in touch with me, I can probably do a feature on Amazon.
JV

By: Michael Bishop

Michael Bishop — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:34:05 +0000

Thanks, Jeff. You may be right. I often think the book business is pretty much like Hollywood. Nobody knows anything for certain, but we all try as hard as we can to pretend (for our own sakes, not just the other guy’s) that we do. Anyway, if you like the book, Jim would have an ecstatic day if you talked out of any particular bodily orifice in its favor. :-)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:02:25 +0000

Yes–I was wondering about that antho. I think sometimes there are cases where the publisher and project don’t quite match, which could be why it isn’t doing well–i.e., whether genre or not, it’s probably something that would interest the so-called lit. mainstream, which has a wider history of engagement with translations? I dunno. I’m probably talking out of my ass on this one.

I’ve got a copy of it. I’ll give it a look.

Jeff

By: Michael Bishop

Michael Bishop — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:03:45 +0000

Collections of stories from other countries, other storytelling traditions, enrich us all, especially if they’re good. I’d like to note here, Jeff, that Jim Morrow has edited a volume of the SFWA Hall of Fame series, now out from Tor, namely, a collection of stories by some exceptional European writers. I don’t believe I can quote the entire Publishers Weekly Starred Review here, but let me knock off its opening couple of lines: “Wondrous worlds await U.S. SF fans in this sensitively chosen, impeccably translated anthology of Continental European science fiction stories, ranging from 1987 to 2005. Offering ‘emotional satisfaction and cerebral excitement,’ as James Morrow puts it in his introduction, highlights include” – and the reviewer lists the highlights. I understand from Jim that the book isn’t doing especially well, and yet it seems to me, like this Romanian anthology, exactly the sort of compendium that we as readers and writers ought to be supporting. Thanks.

By: hnu

hnu — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:35:40 +0000

lol

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:27:59 +0000

Well, not exactly.

By: Gilles

Gilles — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:08:43 +0000

If I understand correctly, Jeff, you’re gonna write an introduction in French for stories you have not read ? (unless Romanian is one of the languages you can read ?)