{"id":263656,"date":"2008-07-24T15:12:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/07\/24\/interview-with-adam-thirlwell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:58","slug":"interview-with-adam-thirlwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/07\/24\/interview-with-adam-thirlwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Adam Thirlwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Harper’s<\/i> blog,<\/a> Wyatt Mason interviews Adam Thirlwell, the author of The Delighted States: A book of novels, romances, & their unknown translators, containing ten languages, set on four continents, & accompanied by maps, portraits, squiggles, illustrations, & a variety of helpful indexes.<\/i> <\/p>\n

As a whole, the interview is really interesting, especially because a huge chunk of it focuses on Thirlwell’s translation of Nabokov’s “Mademoiselle O,” one of only two stories Nabokov wrote in French.<\/p>\n

They get into a lot of details concerning the translation, especially the aspects of the story that proved troublesome and Dmitri Nabokov’s revisions to Thirlwell’s translation is particularly interesting.<\/p>\n

But this the bit that grabbed my attention—mainly because we are publishing Macedonio Fernandez’s Museo de la Novela de la Eterna<\/i> next year:<\/p>\n

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Can we expect to see you take on a longer translation in the future?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I\u2019d love there to be more translated from South American writers from the early twentieth century: Roberto Arlt, Macedonio Fernandez. Then a more complete version of Central Europeans like Bohumil Hrabal. And also more from less well-known periods of major literatures, like the libertine French novels of the eighteenth century, by novelists like Cr\u00e9billon fils. As for me, though, I don\u2019t know when I\u2019ll ever undertake any of these. I was asked by my publisher if I wanted to translate Madame Bovary<\/i>—which initially excited me and then I thought of the time it would take—about the time, basically, it would take to write Madame Bovary.<\/i> I wish more novelists translated novels, but novelists, rightly, in a way, are selfish, and translation of long works takes up so much time. The great novelist-translators like Nabokov and Kundera are massively concerned with the translation of their own works, not the translations of other people. Nabokov\u2019s Pushkin is an uncharacteristically altruistic monument. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Also worth checking out Mason’s post<\/a> about The Delighted States.<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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