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Chad Post offers up an interview with the translator of Proust’s "new" book, one of the 25 nominated for the Best Translated Book of 2008 award.
For those who don’t recall, the new Proust is called The Lemoine Affair and is a sort of pastiche of French literary styles. The translator is Charlotte Mandell, and she is also the translator of a book that is slightly longer than 2666 and very well might appear on 2009′s longlist
Mandell first expplains where exactly this book came from:
The Proust project was my idea—Dennis and Valerie had . . . continue reading, and add your comments
Proust’s long-untranslated-into-English literary pastiche inspired by heavy losses in a coal-to-diamonds scam has been reviewed at Bloomberg.
Interestingly, Proust, who had (in my opinion) one of the most distinctive styles of the 20th century, here mostly relies on mimeticism:
His book “Pastiches et melanges,” translated for the first time into English by Charlotte Mandell under the title “The Lemoine Affair,” contains a series of newspaper pieces Proust wrote about a diamond scandal that rocked Paris. Hardly straight news articles, each parodies a major French writer, such as Honore de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert. . . .
Proust . . . continue reading, and add your comments
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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