{"id":260676,"date":"2008-03-03T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/03\/03\/quarterly-conversation-11\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:24","slug":"quarterly-conversation-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/03\/03\/quarterly-conversation-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterly Conversation #11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversationalreading.com\/2008\/03\/the-quarterly-c.html\">Quarterly Conversation<\/a> is now available, and full of interesting pieces including reviews of Lydie Salvayre&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quarterlyconversation.com\/TQC11\/salvayre.html\"><i>The Power of Flies<\/i><\/a>, Dorothea Dieckmann&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quarterlyconversation.com\/TQC11\/dieckmann.html\"><i>Guantanamo<\/i><\/a> (which won our inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=695\">Best Translation of 2007<\/a> award), and Yousef Al-Mohaimeed&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quarterlyconversation.com\/TQC11\/mohaimeed.html\"><i>Wolves of the Crescent Moon<\/i><\/a>. There&#8217;s also a longer essay by Fran\u00e7ois Monti on the fascinating and strange fiction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quarterlyconversation.com\/TQC11\/eric-chevillard.html\">Eric Chevillard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A really cool feature is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quarterlyconversation.com\/TQC11\/over-under.html\">Overrated\/Underrated<\/a> list in which each of the issue&#8217;s contributors selects one overrated and one underrated book. Interesting in and of itself, but really, I only got as far as this entry, which made me giddy with anticipation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Underrated: <i>Doctor Pasavento<\/i> by Enrique Vila-Matas<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s problematic to consider an award-winning book under-rated, but quite a few reviewers of Enrique Vila-Matas&#8217;s Doctor Pasavento complained that it was just the same book as the previous one, and the one before. Surface-reading at its worst: if Doctor Pasavento, the third volume of Vila-Matas&#8217;s metaliterary trilogy, indeed reiterates things that were said in Bartleby &#038; Co. and Montano&#8217;s Malady, it does so with much more depth, addressing a very different theme: the difficulty of being nobody. It is the pinnacle of Vila-Matas&#8217;s body of work thus far, and it should appeal to readers of Sebald and Walser.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I really hope New Directions publishes this sometime soon . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of Quarterly Conversation is now available, and full of interesting pieces including reviews of Lydie Salvayre&#8217;s The Power of Flies, Dorothea Dieckmann&#8217;s Guantanamo (which won our inaugural Best Translation of 2007 award), and Yousef Al-Mohaimeed&#8217;s Wolves of the Crescent Moon. 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