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Piers Spence

Piers Spence is a translator of German. His works of translation include Georgio Pressburger’s The Law of White Spaces, and Hans Magnus Ezenberger’s Civil Wars.

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Fiction | Issue 37 padlock
Fiction | Issue 37 padlock

The Law of White Spaces

Giorgio Pressburger

‘It was beginning to seem as if his brother’s fate depended on him, on his ability, or lack of it, to learn the prayer for the dead.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 37 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 37 padlock

A Mid-life Crisis

Patrick Süskind

‘Just what exactly is it that belongs together, pray tell? Absolutely nothing!’

Art & Photography | Issue 27 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 27 padlock

Dead Faces

Rudolf Schäfer

‘These pictures show what will surely become of us all one day.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 27
Essays & Memoir | Issue 27

Weightless

Primo Levi

‘What I would like to experience most of all would be to find myself freed, even if only for a moment, from the weight of my body.’ Primo Levi on floating.

Fiction | Issue 27 padlock
Fiction | Issue 27 padlock

Thoughts of a Storyteller on a Happy Ending

Gianni Celati

‘By inserting pages or just strips of paper at the points which needed changing he transformed their conclusion, to bring them always to a happy ending.’

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