{"id":257196,"date":"2007-10-26T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/10\/26\/more-marai-at-wwb\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:15","slug":"more-marai-at-wwb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/10\/26\/more-marai-at-wwb\/","title":{"rendered":"More Marai at WWB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?thread=SarvasPhilips\">conversation<\/a> about <i>The Rebels<\/i> continues today with an interview between Mark Sarvas and Arthur Philips.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MS: Perhaps I&#8217;m reading too much into your New Yorker review, but the sense that I got was that you were at some pains to say nice things about a lesser work. I&#8217;ve mentioned that I think there&#8217;s a problem for modern readers in coming to M\u00e1rai in a sort of reverse order. Do you think there&#8217;s a fundamental problem coming to M\u00e1rai in this order, and that readers might be better served going straight for Embers? Or is there a strong case to be made for The Rebels on its own merits?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>AP: I think Rebels does just fine on its own. It&#8217;s a younger man&#8217;s book with younger characters, written at a time when M\u00e1rai hadn&#8217;t seen all hell break loose in his country yet. I wasn&#8217;t trying to prop up a lesser book. And, I really don&#8217;t know what else is out there; there are a lot of M\u00e1rai books still only in Hungarian. So I don&#8217;t know the direction his style took. Embers is certainly more stylistically interesting to me than Rebels, but Rebels was funny, and the language more outlandish, more under the influence, I think, of Gyula Kr\u00fady. Embers may not be his best or most characteristic novel, so I won&#8217;t say that the way to go is to start with Embers. There are some who will get more out of starting with the memoirs, I suppose. Even Casanova in Bolzano, maybe. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conversation about The Rebels continues today with an interview between Mark Sarvas and Arthur Philips. MS: Perhaps I&#8217;m reading too much into your New Yorker review, but the sense that I got was that you were at some pains to say nice things about a lesser work. I&#8217;ve mentioned that I think there&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,106,1646,7426,146],"class_list":["post-257196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-reading-the-world","tag-review","tag-sandor-marai","tag-words-without-borders"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257196","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\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327846,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257196\/revisions\/327846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}