{"id":14617,"date":"2025-01-02T04:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T04:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=14617"},"modified":"2025-02-14T17:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:31:43","slug":"out-this-month-january-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=14617","title":{"rendered":"Out This Month: January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories<\/a><\/em> by Dino Buzzati, translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti (NYRB, January 7).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Bewitched Bourgeois<\/em>, Lawrence Venuti has put together an anthology that showcases Buzzati\u2019s short fiction from his earliest stories to the ones he wrote in the last months of his life. Some appear in English for the first time, while others are reappearing in Venuti\u2019s crisp new versions, such as the much-anthologized \u201cSeven Floors,\u201d an absurdist tale of a patient fatally caught in hospital bureaucracy; \u201cPanic at La Scala,\u201d in which the Milanese bourgeoisie, fearing a left-wing revolution, find themselves imprisoned in the opera house; and \u201cAppointment with Einstein,\u201d where the physicist, stopping at a filling station in Princeton, New Jersey, encounters a gas station attendant who turns out to be the Angel of Death.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Strange Pictures<\/a><\/em> by Uketsu, translated from the Japanese by Jim Rion (HarperVia, January 14).<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The spine-tingling \u201ctriumphant international debut\u201d (Publishers Weekly<\/em> starred review) that has taken Japan by storm\u2014an eerie fresh take on mystery-horror in which a series of seemingly innocent pictures draws you into a disturbing web of unsolved mysteries and shattered psyches.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Beyond Everything”<\/a> by Wang Yanzhong, translated from the Chinese by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld<\/em>, January 1).<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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“A Small Extinction: Part\u00a01”<\/a> by Bora Chung, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (Words Without Borders<\/em>, January 28)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A Small Extinction: Part 2”<\/a> by Bora Chung, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (Words Without Borders<\/em>, January 29)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories by Dino Buzzati, translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti (NYRB, January 7). In The Bewitched Bourgeois, Lawrence Venuti has put together an anthology that showcases Buzzati\u2019s short fiction from his earliest stories to the ones he wrote in the last months of his life. Some appear in English for<\/p>\n

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