Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
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Gilbert Alter-Gilbert (born ? in California?) is an American critic, translator, and literary historian whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals. His book-length translations include:
- The Mirror of Lida Sal by Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Streetcorners: Prose Poems of the Demi-Monde by Francis Carco
- Manifestos Manifest by Vincente Huidobro
- Scarecrow & Other Anomalies by Oliverio Girondo
- Dead Man & Company by Marie Redonnet
- Strange Forces: The Fantastic Tales of Leopoldo Lugones.
For Xenos Books, as of 2008, Gilbert is working on three short story collections in translation: On a Locomotive and Other Narratives by Massimo Bontempelli (Italian); Metaphysical Tales by Giovanni Papini (Italian); and Unsavory Tales by Léon Bloy (French). For Green Integer Press, he's doing additional book-length translations: The Fantastic Tales of Alberto Savinio and Jesus Christ, Flashy Adventurer by Francis Picabia.
Alter-Gilbert has acted as redactor, revisionist, ghost writer, and factotum for many periodicals. He's also an art and architecture critic. In this capacity he's done reviews, catalog essays, and book prefaces.
Cristina Peri Rossi, Max-Pol Fouchet, Francis Jammes, Mohamed Choukri, Kajii Motojiro, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Enrique Anderson-Imbert, Felisberto Hernández, Ana María Shua, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Santiago Dabove, Marco Denevi, Fernando Sorrentino, Jean Richepin, Augusto Monterroso, Norberto Luis Romero, Charles Nodier, and Meliton Barba.
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