柴田元幸責任編集の文芸誌「MONKEY」英語版第２弾が早くも刊行決定。コロナ禍で移動が制限される今こそ、「旅」をテーマにした物語を集めた総力特集。日本版のさまざまな号から最良の翻訳者たちと最高の英訳を作成し、国内外の作家による大幅な書き下ろし・描き下ろしも追加した特別な１冊です。
English edition of MONKEY Volume 2, edited by Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen, will be published this fall. The second issue features Travel: A Monkey's Dozen, and includes translations into English of work from various issues of the Japanese MONKEY, as well as other works both old and new by writers, artists, and translators from Japan, England, Canada, and the US.
ISBN:978-4-88418-568-8English edition of MONKEY Volume 2, edited by Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen, will be published this fall. The second issue features Travel: A Monkey's Dozen, and includes translations into English of work from various issues of the Japanese MONKEY, as well as other works both old and new by writers, artists, and translators from Japan, England, Canada, and the US.
2021年10月2日刊行
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【Contents】
6 Sea Horse
a story by Hiromi Kawakami
translated by Ted Goossen
14 A woman hears an announcement on the radio that war has broken out, relatives arrive at her house seeking refuge, when the war ends they leave, then a civil war breaks out
a story by Tomoka Shibasaki
translated by Polly Barton
19 The Overcoat
a graphic story by Satoshi Kitamura
34 Hell
a story by Kikuko Tsumura
translated by Polly Barton
46 Seeing
a poem by Mieko Kawakami
translated by Hitomi Yoshio
48 The Decline of the Aliens + Sheep After Sheep
from City of Ears by Hideo Furukawa
translated by Jordan A.Y. Smith
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Travel: A Monkey’s Dozen
56 The Dugong
a chapter from Takaoka’s Travels
by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
translated by David Boyd
68 Jogging in Southern Europe
an essay by Haruki Murakami
translated by Ted Goossen
74 Whale Leg
a story by Laird Hunt
76 Kurozuka: A Noh Play
from the modern Japanese translation by Seikō Itō
translated and with an introduction by Jay Rubin
83 The Trail
a story by Eric McCormack
89 Five Modern Poets on Travel
selected and translated by Andrew Campana
98 Itō Goes on a Journey, Making a Pilgrimage to Yuda Hot Springs
a chapter from The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Itō
translated by Jeffrey Angles
108 Toad
a story by Barry Yourgrau
110 Every Reading, Every Sound, Every Sight
a travel essay by Jun’ichi Konuma
translated by Sam Bett
120 My First Trip
essays by Mikako Brady, Hirokazu Koreeda, Miwa Nishikawa, Yui Tanizaki, and Utamaru
translated by Morgan Giles
126 A Report on Travel
a story by Brian Evenson
130 Along the Embankment
a story by Hiroko Oyamada
translated by David Boyd
136 From the Northern Sea
a story by Yasunari Kawabata
translated by Michael Emmerich
144 The Lake
a story by Kyōhei Sakaguchi
translated by Sam Malissa
151 Cardboard Boxes and Their Uses
a story by Taki Monma
translated by Ted Goossen
156 Flying Squirrels
an excerpt from a novella by Yūko Tsushima
translated by Rose Bundy
162 The Most Boring Red on Earth
a story by Aoko Matsuda
translated by Polly Barton
165 I can’t translate this! Remarks from twelve translators
Jeffrey Angles on natsukashii
Polly Barton on obasan and ojisan
Sam Bett on midori
Michael K. Bourdaghs on everyday words
David Boyd on mi
Anna Elliott on haa
Michael Emmerich on homophonic names
Ted Goossen on fuyukai
Sam Malissa on mimetic words
Jay Rubin on kokoro
Ginny Tapley Takemori on irasshaimase
Hitomi Yoshio on sentence endings
172 Contributors
178 Credits
