{"id":262956,"date":"2008-06-26T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T13:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/06\/26\/new-issue-of-boldtype\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:05","slug":"new-issue-of-boldtype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/06\/26\/new-issue-of-boldtype\/","title":{"rendered":"New Issue of Boldtype"},"content":{"rendered":"

The July issue of Boldtype<\/a> is now available online and the focus is “Summer Reads.” In addition to a nice review<\/a> of Sasa Stanisic’s How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone,<\/i> there’s a great write-up<\/a> by Scott Esposito of Adolfo Bioy Casares’s The Invention of Morel.<\/i><\/p>\n

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What do you do when you’ve read Jorge Luis Borges’ Collected Fictions<\/i> so many times that you feel a bit like Funes the Memorious? Or when you’ve thoroughly digested the Argentinean master’s Selected Non-Fictions<\/i> and even bought his poetry volume? For strung-out Borges aficionados, the perfect answer is Adolfo Bioy Casares, Borges’ literary collaborator and close friend. Bioy Casares knew Borges well enough to write a 1,600-page volume on their friendship and, despite a 15-year age gap, was considered an intellectual peer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The masterpiece among Bioy Casares’ short, intense novels is The Invention of Morel,<\/i> a book that won raves from Borges (who placed it alongside Franz Kafka’s The Trial<\/i>), was called “perfect” by Octavio Paz, and inspired one of French cinema’s most infamous movies, Last Year at Marienbad<\/i> (1961). Though it was first published in 1940, the book’s continuing relevance was recently proven when it was featured on Lost<\/i> \u2014 a cameo many viewers perceive as a key to that TV show’s plot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure how public this is yet, but New York Review Books (also the publisher of The Invention of Morel<\/i> and Asleep in the Sun<\/i>) is planning on publishing Bioy Casares’s diary about Borges as translated by the wonderful Esther Allen. This is going to be a major, major book, although it probably won’t be out for years . . . <\/p>\n

And I’d like to reiterate<\/a> that any and all Lost<\/i> fans out there really should read this book. Not because it reveals any secrets about the show (although there are some eerie similarities), but because anyone who likes Lost<\/i> will undoubtedly like this book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The July issue of Boldtype is now available online and the focus is “Summer Reads.” In addition to a nice review of Sasa Stanisic’s How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, there’s a great write-up by Scott Esposito of Adolfo Bioy Casares’s The Invention of Morel. What do you do when you’ve read Jorge Luis Borges’ […]<\/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":[9996,12986,1836,10356,1646],"class_list":["post-262956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-adolfo-bioy-casares","tag-boldtype","tag-cwp","tag-invention-of-morel","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262956","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=262956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326196,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262956\/revisions\/326196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}