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Thus nothing was lost in translation

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I even learned a new word demijohn which in bulgarian is damajahna and has been a word that i have been missing while trying to translate bulgarian jokes

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On a personal notemiro if you run out of inspiration a translation of selected modern 20th century bulgarian short stories is very long overdue

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While bookworms notice implicit characterization ponder subtle themes and discern the meaning of motifs they often believe they can trust a storys narrator

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In the two times that i have taught miroslav penkovs story buying lenin not one student has secondguessed or at least done so aloud the reliability of penkovs firstperson collegeaged narrator

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Penkovs newly released story collection east of the west abounds with inexperienced confused distraught and aging narratorsin short narrators who lack access to truth and who in their perplexed musings threaten the very idea of a singular truth

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It is only in focusing on penkovs representations of his narrators consciences that a reader realizes she cannot trust the i who narrates

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While other stories juxtapose the east and the west this one centers not on one side or the other but on the very fact of their division