{"id":258906,"date":"2007-12-26T15:56:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/12\/26\/interview-with-natasha-wimmer\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:46","slug":"interview-with-natasha-wimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/12\/26\/interview-with-natasha-wimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Natasha Wimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned earlier, things have been pretty much shut down around here the past few days, so we&#8217;re a bit behind. Nevertheless, this <a href=\"http:\/\/papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/21\/stray-questions-for-natasha-wimmer\/\">stray questions with Natasha Wimmer<\/a> from Paper Cuts is definitely worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha is one of the rising stars among translators, thanks in no small part to her translation of Bolano&#8217;s <i>The Savage Detectives<\/i>. (She has also translated Mario Vargas Llosa and Laura Restrepo.)<\/p>\n<p>For all Bolano fans, here&#8217;s a nice tease for <i>2666<\/i>, which is supposed to come out from <span class=\"caps\">FSG<\/span> later this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Long stretches of the novel are set on the Mexico-U.S. border and inside a prison. And that\u2019s not all. Bola\u00f1o really gives the translator a workout. I also researched Black Panther history, pseudo-academic jargon (actually, some of that came naturally), World War II German army terminology, Soviet rhetoric, boxing lingo, obscure forms of divination and forensic science vocabulary, among other things. If that makes the novel sound like a hodgepodge, I promise it\u2019s not. Even the most obscure detours are thoroughly Bola\u00f1o-ized &#8211; filtered through his weird, ominous, comic worldview.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned earlier, things have been pretty much shut down around here the past few days, so we&#8217;re a bit behind. Nevertheless, this stray questions with Natasha Wimmer from Paper Cuts is definitely worth checking out. Natasha is one of the rising stars among translators, thanks in no small part to her translation of [&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":[1836,9036,9026,756],"class_list":["post-258906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-natasha-wimmer","tag-paper-cuts","tag-roberto-bolano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258906","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=258906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360276,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258906\/revisions\/360276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}