Talking to Ourselves

A Note on Translations

There follows a list of the works cited by Elena in this novel. The translation of passages originally published in languages other than English was done by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia. If writing allows us to talk to ourselves, reading and translating are very much like having a conversation.

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Aira, César. Yo era una mujer casada. Santiago de Chile: Cuneta, 2010.

Ariès, Philippe. “La mort interdite.” In Essais sur l’histoire de la mort en Occident du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Paris: Seuil, 1975.

Atwood, Margaret. “Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women.” In Good Bones. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1992.

Banville, John. The Sea. London: Picador, 2005.

Bobin, Christian. Autoportrait au radiateur. Paris: Gallimard, 1997.

——. La part manquante. Paris: Gallimard, 1989.

Bolaño, Roberto. “Literatura + enfermedad = enfermedad.” In El gaucho insufrible. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2003.

Chekhov, Anton, and Olga Knipper. Letter from Olga, August 19, 1904. In Correspondencia 1899–1904. Edited and translated from the Russian into Spanish by Paul Viejo. Madrid: Páginas de Espuma, 2008.

Ford, Richard. The Sportswriter. New York: Vintage, 1986.

Garner, Helen. The Spare Room. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2008.

Gorer, Geoffrey. Death, Grief, and Mourning in Contemporary Britain. London: Cresset Press, 1965.

Gracia Armendáriz, Juan. Diario del hombre pálido. Madrid: Demipage, 2010.

Gwyn, Richard. The Vagabond’s Breakfast. Aberystwyth (U.K.): Alcemi, 2011.

Levrero, Mario. La novela luminosa. Montevideo: Alfaguara, 2005.

Marías, Javier. Los enamoramientos. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2011.

Matute, Ana María. Los niños tontos. Barcelona: Destino, 1956.

Moore, Lorrie. “People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk.” In Birds of America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Navarro, Justo. La casa del padre. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1994.

Némirovsky, Irène. Les Mouches d’automne. Paris: Grasset, 1931.

O’Connor, Flannery. “The Enduring Chill.” In Everything That Rises Must Converge. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.

Ōe, Kenzaburō. A Personal Matter. New York: Grove Press, 1969; Una cuestión personal. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1989.

Ozick, Cynthia. “Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestry, Her After-life.” In The Puttermesser Papers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Uhart, Hebe. “¿Cómo vuelvo?” In Del cielo a casa. Buenos Aires: Adriana Hidalgo editora, 2003.

Woolf, Virginia. On Being Ill. London: Hogarth Press, 1930.