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Michael Henry Heim

Contributor

Michael Henry Heim

Michael Henry Heim was a professor of Slavic languages and literatures and comparative literature at UCLA. He was a prolific translator of Russian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, German, Dutch, Italian, and French literature....

His translations include Chekhov’s plays and a collection of Chekhov’s letters, three novels, including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and a play by Milan Kundera, two novels and a collection of stories by Bohumil Hrabal, two novels by Danilo Kis, a children’s novel by Hans-Magnus Enzensberger, Günter Grass’s My Century, and works by contemporary Russian novelists (Vassily Aksyonov, Felix Roziner, Sasha Sokolov) and Hungarian novelists (Istvan Örkeny, Peter Esterhazy, György Konrad). Heim died in September of 2012.

Photo of the Oudezijds Kolk canal in Amsterdam

Bert Kaufmann from Roermond, Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From “The Ministry of Pain”

By Dubravka Ugrešic

Instead of talking, they seem to be patting each other with words, spreading a soothing, sonorous saliva over one another.

Translated from Croatian by Michael Henry Heim

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Michael Henry Heim

Michael Henry Heim

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From “The Ministry of Pain”