PAST THE LANGUAGE BARRIER
Jhumpa Lahiri, in the introduction to , her award-winning translation of Domenico Starnone’s ironic, wry yet emotionally fraught novel , notes a particular passage that “stopped me in my tracks”. A passage that “lays bare the flawed human impulse to endure.... The disquieting message of is not so much that life is fleeting, that we are alone in this world, that we hurt one another, that we grow old and forget, but that none of this can be captured, not even by means of literature”. Not that such
