Contributions by Elizabeth Lowe
Elizabeth Lowe Elizabeth Lowe is Professor and Director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She translates Brazilian fiction of the 19th-21st centuries into English.The only happy ending for a love story is an accident (excerpt)
Published on
February
10th
of
2014
by
JP Cuenca, Martin Caamaño and Elizabeth Lowe
in Fiction.
J.P. Cuenca
translated by Elizabeth Lowe
Before Mr. Atsuo Okuda opened the box, everything was dark.
In fact, there was nothing to be illuminated before Mr. Okuda opened the box. If Mr. Okuda had never opened the box, nothing would exist. The world began only at the instant that Mr. Okuda opened the box and said the word.