{"id":263846,"date":"2008-08-07T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/08\/07\/senselessness-excerpt\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:57","slug":"senselessness-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/08\/07\/senselessness-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Senselessness Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Elegant Variation, they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/marksarvas.blogs.com\/elegvar\/2008\/08\/tev-excerpt-sen.html\">excerpted the first chapter<\/a> of Moya&#8217;s <em>Senselessness<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are very pleased to be able to present to you, in its entirety, the first chapter of Horacio Castellanos Moya&#8217;s remarkable novella <em>Senselessness<\/em>, with kind permission from our friends at New Directions.  This book &#8211; which will appear presently atop the Recommended sidebar, and will be given away in signed editions tomorrow &#8211; is a bleak, mordantly funny marvel.  Compact but dense, it will linger in your imagination.  He&#8217;s been blurbed by no less than Bolano himself, and so here&#8217;s an opportunity for you to judge for yourself, via Katherine Silver&#8217;s fine translation.  Enjoy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Very cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Elegant Variation, they&#8217;ve excerpted the first chapter of Moya&#8217;s Senselessness: We are very pleased to be able to present to you, in its entirety, the first chapter of Horacio Castellanos Moya&#8217;s remarkable novella Senselessness, with kind permission from our friends at New Directions. This book &#8211; which will appear presently atop the [&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":[2136,12836,56],"class_list":["post-263846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-horacio-castellanos-moya","tag-new-directions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263846","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=263846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357236,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263846\/revisions\/357236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}