{"id":265396,"date":"2008-10-24T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/10\/24\/toni-morrison-on-u-s-insularity\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:44","slug":"toni-morrison-on-u-s-insularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/10\/24\/toni-morrison-on-u-s-insularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni Morrison on U.S. Insularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French translator Alison Anderson pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliobs.nouvelobs.com\/20081022\/7994\/philip-roth-aurait-du-recevoir-le-nobel-depuis-longtemps\">this article<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliobs.nouvelobs.com\/\">Bibliobs<\/a> the literary section of the weekly French newsmagazin <a href=\"http:\/\/tempsreel.nouvelobs.com\/index.html\">Nouvel Observateur.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting what Toni Morrison has to say about the Horace Engdahl\/American insularity situation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Toni Morrison.<\/b> &#8211; Je pense que ces propos refl\u00e8tent effectivement, au moins en partie, la conception que se fait l&#8217;Acad\u00e9mie su\u00e9doise de son prix de litt\u00e9rature. Car elle d\u00e9cerne tout le temps le Nobel \u00e0 des Am\u00e9ricains dans les autres domaines, mais en litt\u00e9rature, elle consid\u00e8re qu&#8217;ils ont quelque chose d&#8217;insulaire. Il se pourrait qu&#8217;il y ait un peu de narcissisme de la part des Am\u00e9ricains, mais les talents ne manquent pas. L&#8217;autre probl\u00e8me est celui de la traduction. Je pense avant tout que nos \u00e9diteurs am\u00e9ricains, quelle que soit l&#8217;importance des auteurs \u00e9trangers, n&#8217;ach\u00e8tent pas les droits de leurs \u0153uvres. Ainsi, je ne savais m\u00eame pas qui \u00e9tait cet homme [J.M.G. le Cl\u00e9zio, laur\u00e9at 2008]. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paraphrasing (loosely), she says that there&#8217;s a bit of narcissism on the part of Americans when it comes to the Nobel for literature, but that there are a lot of talented American writers. More interestingly, she points to the fact that editors don&#8217;t buy enough rights to foreign authors, so she didn&#8217;t even know who Le Clezio was . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French translator Alison Anderson pointed me to this article from Bibliobs the literary section of the weekly French newsmagazin Nouvel Observateur. Interesting what Toni Morrison has to say about the Horace Engdahl\/American insularity situation: Toni Morrison. &#8211; Je pense que ces propos refl\u00e8tent effectivement, au moins en partie, la conception que se fait l&#8217;Acad\u00e9mie su\u00e9doise [&hellip;]<\/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":[1836,5936,15756,8256],"class_list":["post-265396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-nobel-prize","tag-toni-morrison","tag-translations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265396","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=265396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356306,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265396\/revisions\/356306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}