Cobalt blue by sachin kundalkar7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Though the narrative of Black Bread is based in Catalonia just after the Spanish Civil War, it is a timeless setting for contemporary humanity. ![]() From the opening scene to the finale, the narrative of war and chaos and coming-of-age is underpinned with what seems an eternal forest-a natural world that holds secrets and desires and will ultimately outlive all the pettiness that is humanity. Peter Bush has given us a poetic translation of Emili Teixidor’s novel Black Bread, in which each line seems to be given complete attention and where Teixidor has loaded line after line with both wonderful and terrible beauty. There is nothing more profound than the realization of what war does well beyond its official end. The novel almost floats we are engaged from beginning to end, and one couldn’t find a better companion than Rostov. ![]() More engaged with the Russian spirit than with the country’s quotidian concerns. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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