{"id":256416,"date":"2007-09-28T14:27:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T14:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/28\/jose-eduardo-agualusa-interview\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:21","slug":"jose-eduardo-agualusa-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/28\/jose-eduardo-agualusa-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Eduardo Agualusa Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words Without Borders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?lab=PolzonoffInterviewsAgualusa\">has an interview<\/a> with one of my favorite authors, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, and a translation of one of his short stories, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?lab=AgualusaLevitation\">A Practical Guide to Levitation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In Brazil, your work is seen as critical of Angolan society. What\u2019s the significance of this sociological approach in your work?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m a critic, in one form or another. In a country like Angola, which is very poor, not completely democratic yet, and without structures that allow for a global debate\u2014I mean, with few independent newspapers, few people who can access the Internet\u2014I believe that the writers have the moral and civic duty of criticism, of questioning, of giving a voice to those who don\u2019t have a voice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words Without Borders has an interview with one of my favorite authors, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, and a translation of one of his short stories, A Practical Guide to Levitation. In Brazil, your work is seen as critical of Angolan society. What\u2019s the significance of this sociological approach in your work? I\u2019m a critic, in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,3266],"class_list":["post-256416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-jose-eduardo-agualusa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361996,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256416\/revisions\/361996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}