Ten centuries ago, Persian astronomer Omar Khayyam wrote five hundred quatrains whose modernity and heterodoxy are still ahead of general understanding today. Love and enjoyment of life here and now, denouncing religious hypocrisy and the vanity of the powerful, expressed with a simple mind and an enlightened heart. Humanity has not yet seen an author […]
In 1992, the eternal contender for the Nobel Prize for literature, Harry Mulisch, presented this novel-romance, which was declared the best Dutch-language literary work in history in 2007. Trad&Go, experts in literary translation, provides the details of this masterpiece.
First in long line of hits from Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein, this piece first appeared in 2000. This book marked a turning point in how the power of sophisticated global marketing was perceived.
When the German Michael Ende published his first successful novel in 1960, everyone thought it was a children’s story, but he was keen to point out that he had written it for adults like himself. In its successive editions, it is emphasised that this story should not be read alone, but in the company of […]
In this autobiographical lament published in 1954, Swiss writer Albert Cohen provides a heart-rending and moving ode to his dead mother. Awkward, yet tender, an almost embarrassing act of contrition that everyone can identify with. In a monologue that immediately becomes a dialogue with the reader, Cohen casts his mind back to reminisce on the […]
In 2016, French cartoonist Mathieu Bablet created this sci-fi comic book full of light and contrasts, whose minimalist dialogue invites existentialist reflection on a post-apocalyptic world subjected to a techno-dictatorship oriented towards consumerism. Keep learning with Trad&Go, your translation agency. Today, we are presenting a visual novel of high aesthetic and philosophical value, not only […]
At Trad&Go, translation experts, we are discussing Infinity in a Reed. The Spaniard Irene Vallejo got it right with this essay on the histo ry of books, in 2019, on the verge of a global pandemic that reconciled many of us with reading. This book is an adventure about how this object has developed since the Egyptians […]
In this 2007 science-fiction adventure, French-American author Antoine Bello depicts how a secret global organisation can construct fake news in order to twist the course of history in favour of a secret objective. This is the first instalment of a fast-paced action trilogy that takes the reader on all sorts of moral justifications in order […]
God’s Mountain. An angel born from the ruins of Naples Montedidio an angel born from the ruins of Naples is a short story-like novel written in 2002 by the Italian Erri de Luca. Tenderly narrates the swift transition from childhood to adulthood of a child in a harsh world whose only protection comes from the […]
Tempestad en víspera de viernes is the uncomfortable and hypnotising gaze of the Spanish Kill Bill of verse. If poetry in Spanish needed a revulsive, readers will find it in Lara Moreno, who compiles her previous poetic work in this compilation published in 2020, adding to it the works she has written during these claustrophobic […]
