From Wahnsinnig to the Loony Bin: German and Russian Stories Transposed to Modern-Day America by Henry Whittlesey
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Overview: From Wahnsinnig to the Loony Bin is the first collection of published and unpublished transpositions – a genre we have created between translation and adaptation.
A transposition retains the form of an original story, but shifts its content when the past and present contexts are incompatible. Form is defined as each sentence or segment; content is moved from the past to the present – from the romantic era in Germany and Russia to 21st century America in this collection.
Our inaugural edition of transpositions furnishes stories originally written in Russian and German. Transposed into English, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and E.T.A. Hoffmann enter modern-day America. The selected works include classics like The Sandmann by Hoffmann, The Nose by Gogol and lesser known works such as Pushkin’s narrative poem Gypsies (transposed as Activists) and Hoffmann’s novella Gambler’s Luck.
Following a preface on transposition, Broker Bill loses his nose in Whittlesey’s transposition of Gogol’s classic The Nose. Desperate, he roams Manhattan, riding taxis, going to banks, talking with CEOs, FBI investigators, emailing district managers and board chairs, until he gives up…
Smirnov moves Pushkin’s gypsies from the Caucasus to the Forest City – Portland, Maine. The poem is transformed into flash fiction; the gypsies transfigured to activists; but a young stranger still falls in love with a woman who soon grows tired of his affection…
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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