Afsari | Juan Gelman, Dibaxu (selected poems) | Absinthe: World Literature in Translation

Afsari, A., (2024) “Juan Gelman, Dibaxu (selected poems)”, Absinthe: World Literature in Translation 29. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/absinthe.5069 Downloads: Download XML Download PDF 1076 VIEWS 222 DOWNLOADS PUBLISHED ON 2024-01-08 LICENSE CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 What follows is a series of English translations of Juan Gelman’s (1930–2014) Dibaxu, a bilingual collection of twenty-nine love poems written originally in Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish (“Sefardí” in Gelman’s terms), accompanied by translations into modern Spanish by the author himself. In other words, there are two translators present here: Gelman, the self-translator who moves from his adopted tongue, Ladin

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