{"id":257306,"date":"2007-10-31T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/10\/31\/so-jealous\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:14","slug":"so-jealous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/10\/31\/so-jealous\/","title":{"rendered":"So Jealous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200710c.htm#bd7\">Literary Saloon<\/a> it appears that Michael Orthofer has received a galley of <i>Nazi Literature in the Americas<\/i>, the next Bolano book to be published in English. It&#8217;s due out from New Directions in February, which is a mere 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 months away. (A third of a year! Good God!)<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s never too soon to start the hype, and Orthofer does a great job of writing selling-type copy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First of all, it comes with an epigraph by Augusto Monterroso, which already goes a long way in winning us over.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The book itself is a sort of mock-encyclopedia of imagined author-lives, complete with an extensive bibliography (a closing section titled &#8216;Epilogue for Monsters&#8217;). At just over two hundred pages it looks the right size not to be too wearing, and this seems exactly the sort of thing Bola\u00f1o&#8217;s talents are suited for.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An excerpt is available in the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vqronline.org\/articles\/2007\/fall\/bolano-nazi-literature-americas\/\"><i>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/i><\/a> and if you have access to back issues of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandstreet.com\/contributors_fiction.html\"><i>Grand Street<\/i><\/a>, an excerpt appeared in issue 70, back in 2002. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Literary Saloon it appears that Michael Orthofer has received a galley of Nazi Literature in the Americas, the next Bolano book to be published in English. It&#8217;s due out from New Directions in February, which is a mere 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 months [&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":[726,1836,2706,56,1646,756],"class_list":["post-257306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-complete-review","tag-cwp","tag-nazi-literature-in-the-americas","tag-new-directions","tag-review","tag-roberto-bolano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257306","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=257306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327796,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257306\/revisions\/327796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}