ANNOTATED BOOKS RECEIVED TABLE OF CONTENTS ANTHOLOGIES Anthologies..........................................................................1 Reference .............................................................................4 (Vietnamese) An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Reprints ................................................................................5 Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries. Ed. and Tr. Hu_nh Autobiography/Biography/Memoirs/Diary/Letters ............6 Sanh Thông. Yale University Press. 1996. 429 pp. Cloth: Interviews . .10 $25.00; ISBN 0-300-06410-1. This anthology brings together Travel . .10 a thousand years of Vietnamese poems─more than 300 by 150 poets. Many of the poems are not otherwise available in Literary Theory/Criticism . 11 English. Sanh Thông's historical and critical Introduction and Social/Political Theory ......................................................12 his abundant explanatory notes throughout the collection assist Translation Theory.............................................................13 readers in understanding and appreciating each work. He has Art/Music/Photography Theory . 14 organized the poems around nine main themes that include History . 15 Vietnamese views of society, responses to foreign influences, Philosophy/Religion ..........................................................17 and feelings about such universal themes as relationships Psychology . .18 between men and women, the role of art in life, and conflicts Arabic.................................................................................18 among social classes. Sanh Thông's professional translations Bengali ...............................................................................19 include the long narrative poem The Tale of Kiêù, also Bulgarian . 19 published by Yale University Press. For his efforts to keep Cajun French . 19 alive the literary and poetic traditions of the Vietnamese Chinese...............................................................................19 people, he won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987. Czech..................................................................................19 Christmas in Scandinavia. Eds. Sven H. Rossel and Bo Dutch..................................................................................20 Elbrønd-Bek. Tr. David W. Colbert. University of Nebraska Finnish . 20 Press. 1996. 182 pp. Cloth: $25.00; ISBN 0-8032-3907-6. French.................................................................................20 Anyone aware of the magic in Christmas will recognize the German...............................................................................24 inspiration in these stories: a homeless stranger seeking Greek..................................................................................26 kindness, excited children, and a talking Christmas tree, all Hebrew . 26 under the spell of the season. Here and there appear Nissen, Hopi . 27 the capped and bearded imps of mischief familiar throughout Hungarian...........................................................................27 Scandinavia. Christmas in Scandinavia includes writers from Italian..................................................................................27 Denmark, the Faroese Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Japanese .............................................................................28 Sweden. Among the stories are Hans Christian Andersen's Latin ...................................................................................28 "The Fir Tree" and stories by Nobel laureates Selma Lagerlöf Maltese . 29 and Johannes Jensen. Most of the 17 pieces collected here have never before been available in English. Persian . 29 Polish . 29 (Greek and Latin) Classical Women Poets. Tr. Josephine Portuguese..........................................................................29 Balmer. Bloodaxe Books/Dufour Editions. 1996. 160 pp. Punjabi. .............................................................................30 Paper: $16.95; ISBN 1-85224-342-2. Today only a fraction of Romanian ..........................................................................30 the works of women poets of ancient Greece and Rome Russian...............................................................................30 survives. Balmer's translations breathe new life into long-lost Serbian ...............................................................................31 works by over a dozen poets from early Greece to the late Serbo-Croatian ...................................................................31 Roman empire, including Sappho, Corinna, Erinna, and Spanish...............................................................................31 Sulpicia, as well as inscriptions, folk-songs, and even graffiti. Swedish ..............................................................................32 Each poet is introduced by a brief bibliographical note, and Thai . .................................................................................33 where necessary poems are annotated to guide readers through Yiddish ..............................................................................33 unfamiliar mythological or historical references. Publishers Represented......................................................34 (German) Contemporary German Fiction. Ed. A. Leslie Translation Review - Annotated Books Received Supplement 1 Willson. Continuum Books. 1996. 241 pp. Cloth: $29.50; Hegel, Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, ISBN 0-8264-0740-4. Paper: $16.95; ISBN 0-8264-0741-2. Troeltsch, Scheler, Schweitzer, Jaspers, Bultmann, F. The German Library, Volume 99. Some of the works included Rosenzweig, Wittgenstein, and Balthasar. are: "The Bound Man" (Aichinger), "End of the Line" (Becker), "There Is No Such Place as America" (Bichsel), "Rats Do Sleep (German) German Essays on Science in the 19th Century. Ed. at Night" (Borchert), "The Liar" (Grzimek), "The Bottles of Wolfgang Schirmacher. Continuum Books. 1996. 309 pp. Venice" (Köpf), "Manig" (Lettau), and "The Man Who Got Cloth: $29.50; ISBN 0-8264-0744-7. Paper: $19.95; ISBN 0- Stuck" (Nadolny). 8264-0745-5. The German Library, Volume 36. A shared belief among German scientists in the 19th century, as (French) The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology. Ed. L. C. Alexander von Humboldt phrased it, was that science in all its Breunig. University of Nebraska Press. 1995. 326 pp. Cloth: forms has to serve the betterment of the human condition. This 0-8032-1224-0. Bilingual. At the height of the Cubist companion to volume 82 (German Essays on Science in the movement in Paris, no fewer than 15 significant poets kept 20th Century) represents the sciences in a comprehensive way: company with the painters. "Every writer had his painter," said Natural History, Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Economy, Blaise Cendrars. "I myself had Delaunay and Léger, Max Jacob and Technology. Writers and scientists represented include: had Picasso, Reverdy Braque, and Apollinaire had everybody." Jacob Burckhardt, Carl von Claisewitz, Paul Ehrlich, Karl The painters illustrated the poets' poems and painted their Friedrich Gauss, Alexander von Humboldt, Lorenz Oben, Carl portraits; the poets wrote the painters' praise and defended them Ritter, Werner von Siemens, and others. in journalistic wars. This collection includes poems by Apollinaire, Albert-Birot, Cendrars, Cocteau, Delaunay, Dermée, (German) German Essays on Science in the 20th Century. Ed. la Rochelle, Gardelle, Huidobro, Jacob, Laurencin, Hélène Wolfgang Schirmacher. Continuum Books. 1996. 310 pp. Baronne d'Oettingen, Radiguet, Reverdy, and Salmon. Fifteen Cloth: $29.50; ISBN 0-8264-0746-3. Paper: $19.95; ISBN 0- illustrations suggest the painters' close ties with the poets, 8264-0747-1. The German Library, Volume 82. The 20th including works by Gris and Chirico. Breunig has edited century has brought us to the high point of the scientific- Apollinaire's Chroniques d'art and Apollinaire on Art. technological age but paradoxically marks the beginning of a critical loss of confidence in the very powers of science. This (Bulgarian) Daydreams and Nightmares: Bulgaria, Balkan collection represents the sciences in a comprehensive way: Goddess. Tr. Don D. Wilson with Stella Kostova. Singular Physics, Biochemistry, Ecology, Ethnology, Social Sciences, Speech Press. 1995. 54 pp. Paper: $9.00; ISBN 1-880286-33- Law, and Culture. Writers and scientists represented include: 5. Includes works by Georgi Borisov, Vasil Dragonov, Boris Robert Bosch, Albert Einstein, Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, Hristov, Ivailo Kozuharov, Alexander Shurbanov, and Pavlina Konrad Lorenz, Lise Meitner, Max Planck, Georg Simmel, Stamenova. These poems "show a surprising diversity and Max Weber, and others. remarkable power, coming as they do from a small country..." (Wilson). Works include "The Limping Dog," "A Letter from (French) Histories: French Constructions of the Past. Eds. the Ditch," "Unquenchable Thirst," "In the Round Eye of the Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt. Tr. Arthur Goldhammer and Fish," and "Externalizing," divided into two sections of others. The New Press. 1995. 654 pp. Cloth: $40.00; ISBN "Daydreams" and one of "Nightmares." 1-56584-195-6. First volume of The New Press Postwar French Thought Series. This collection traces developments in (German) German Epic Poetry. Eds. Francis G. Gentry and French historiography from questions of social history and James K. Walter. Continuum