{"id":262256,"date":"2008-05-19T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/05\/19\/moran-meis-on-esterhazy\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:11","slug":"moran-meis-on-esterhazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/05\/19\/moran-meis-on-esterhazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Moran Meis on Esterhazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Meis introduced a conversation between Peter Esterhazy and Wayne Koestenbaum (who was fabulous at the Walser event) at <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> World Voices a few weeks ago. He was kind enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/3quarksdaily.blogs.com\/3quarksdaily\/2008\/05\/monday-musing-p.html\">put his introduction online today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Esterh\u00e1zy is trying to make it work. It is a literary approach that comes down directly from that incorrigible drunk, Jaroslav Hasek, the author of The Good Soldier Svejk. Svejk is a rube all the way through and sometimes a scoundrel, but he always chooses life over death. It is there even in his way of talking, a style that Hasek gives his favorite literary creation which is both straightforward and evasive at the same time. It\u2019s a kind of irony, middle European irony, that is neither Socratic nor the blas\u00e9 irony of Western intellectual boredom. Actually I think it is much better than both of those things. Always it is a language, a style or a manner of comporting oneself that finds a way to skirt through the cracks. Again, life. Here\u2019s Svejk on being locked up in an insane asylum, \u201cI really don\u2019t know why those loonies get so angry when they\u2019re kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite\u2026 There\u2019s a freedom there which not even Socialists have dreamed of.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice introduction, mentioning Hasek (whose Svejk, one of my favorites, is in desperate need of a re-translation) and Hrabal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Meis introduced a conversation between Peter Esterhazy and Wayne Koestenbaum (who was fabulous at the Walser event) at PEN World Voices a few weeks ago. He was kind enough to put his introduction online today: Esterh\u00e1zy is trying to make it work. It is a literary approach that comes down directly from that incorrigible [&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":[2136,12256,3986],"class_list":["post-262256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-morgan-meis","tag-peter-esterhazy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262256","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=262256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358126,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262256\/revisions\/358126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}