Two Lines 25

Fall 2016

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Unobservable obscenizable. Desire alone knows how to contemplate, desire of lover desire of artist the desire of the engorger, desire of elsewhere.

—from “Nude Enumerated” by Jean-Luc Nancy, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell

Strip everything away and writing is really just about creating a record—trying to make something permanent out of all this impermanence. As I read the stories and poems in this issue of Two Lines again, I kept coming across characters or speakers who were fighting, as the title of Bradley Schmidt’s translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig’s story succinctly puts it, “Against Disappearance.” —CJ EVANS

Table of Contents

Fiction

Sea Swell

By Enrique Vila-Matas

Translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

Against Disappearance

By Ulrike Almut Sandig

Translated from German by Bradley Schmidt

Where Sleep the Gods

By Dmitry Ivanov

Translated from Russian by Arch Tait

Eni Furtado Has Never Stopped Running