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“... of space. Three Trapped Tigers has been translated into electric English by Donald Gardner and Suzanne JillLevine, in collaboration with the author. I don’t know why any human beings should wish to attempt a task as difficult as this – perhaps because it was there; at any rate, they have performed the ...”

“... book La Wik’uña, drawing on her research in the Andes and translated by Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne JillLevine, Vicuña writes that ‘Quechua, the sacred language, is conceived as a thread.’ She adds that it might derive from q’eswa: ‘a rope made from twisted reeds’. In this schema, where both speech ...”

“... the constant alliteration are in English. The title page says ‘translated from the Spanish by Suzanne JillLevine with the author’. In a world which never had as many writers in political exile as it does today, this sort of collaboration, which raises translation to a new level of creativity, is ...”

“... As this summer wore on I became aware of wasps in my bathroom. There would be a remote drone, and then a wasp would be flying at me, at head-height, on its way to the window, there to cling, finding itself shut in. Entrants multiplied, but without stinging. They just clustered at the source of light. When not expelled or allowed issue, the wasps simply curled up and – unhurriedly, with twiddling of legs and little angry buzzings – died ...”