ESSAYS AND
SOLILOQUIES
BORZOI TRANSLATIONS
SPRING 1925
FROM THE SPANISH
FIGURES OF THE PASSION OF OUR LORD
BY GABRIEL MIRO
Translated by C. J. Hogarth
FROM THE FRENCH
THE MODERN ENGLISH NOVEL
BY ABEL CHEVALLEY
Translated by Ben Ray Redman
FROM THE GERMAN
DEATH IN VENICE
BY THOMAS MANN
Translated by Kenneth Burke
FROM THE RUSSIAN
THE CLOCK
BY ALEKSEI REMIZOV
Translated by John Cournos
TALES OF THE WILDERNESS
BY BORIS PILNIAK
Translated by F. O’Dempsey
FROM THE NORWEGIAN
SEGELFOSS TOWN
BY KNUT HAMSUN
Translated by J. S. Scott
FROM THE POLISH
THE PEASANTS
BY LADISLAS REYMONT
Translated by Michael H. Dziewicki
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO
TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
BY J. E. CRAWFORD FLITCH
NEW YORK
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1925
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The two paragraphs on pages 100-101 beginning:
and:
are a continuation of the footnote on page 99.{v}
I am writing these lines, to-day the 6th of June, 1924, in this islandof Fuerteventura, an island that is propitious to calm thinking and to alaying bare of the soul, even as this parched land is bare, bare even tothe bone. Here I have been confined now for nearly three months, noreason for my confinement having been given other than the arbitrarymandate of the military power that is de-civilizing and debasing mynative country.
Hither came my friend Mr. J. E. Crawford Flitch to bear me company. Hewas entrusted by Mr. Alfred A. Knopf with the task of making ananthology or florilegium of my shorter articles and extracts from mymore extensive writings which should present a conspectus of my wholeliterary work. It is he, my friend and translator, who is responsiblefor the selection of the pieces which form this antho