Regina Ullman’s “The Mouse” in Two Lines Online

Two Lines Online, the online literary supplement to the Two Lines journal published annually by the Center for the Art of Translation, recently ran the story “The Mouse” by Modernist Swiss writer Regina Ullman.  Coinciding with that is an introduction to Ullman’s work by the translator, Kurt Beals.   A collection of Regina Ullman’s short prose translated by Beals is forthcoming from ND in 2012.

Of Ullman’s work, Beals starts his introduction by saying:

“Although Regina Ullmann (1884-1961) was admired by many of her contemporaries—including Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, and particularly Rainer Maria Rilke, who secured a publisher for her works and a stipend to support her—she has long been consigned to literary obscurity. Hesse’s lament that Ullmann’s “gift and achievement have indeed found the greatest recognition among a small elite, but never that of the world” remains true to the present day.”