Modern Life Calls for a Medieval Plague in “The Dance and the Fire” - Electric Literature

Modern Life Calls for a Medieval Plague in “The Dance and the Fire” - Electric Literature

The strange fate of translated books is to be published multiple times and for multiple audiences—sometimes years after their initial publication—as though for the first time. Often, this shift in context is obvious, sometimes it’s jarring, but occasionally I read an English translation and struggle to imagine the book being written at any other time but now. It’s that vital, that fluent, that present. The Dance and the Fire by Daniel Saldaña Pa…