{"id":267476,"date":"2009-01-05T15:11:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T15:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/01\/05\/obituary-gert-jonke\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:26","slug":"obituary-gert-jonke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/01\/05\/obituary-gert-jonke\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Gert Jonke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the chance to meet Gert Jonke in Vienna a few years back. I was there with Dalkey publisher John O&#8217;Brien, looking for Austrian writers to publish in English. (One of the titles we heard about was <em>A Fucking Masterpiece<\/em>, which, according to the reading report we got, actually wasn&#8217;t, but it&#8217;s still one of the ballsiest titles I&#8217;ve ever come across.) Dalkey published Jonke&#8217;s <em>Geometric Regional Novel<\/em> back in the 80s a fantastic and imaginative book that contains one of the funniest faux-bureaucratic questionnaires to ever appear in print, and John was always looking for other Jonke books to publish.<\/p>\n<p>(Dalkey did end up deciding on a few, including <em>Homage to Czerny<\/em>, which made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=btb\">Best Transalted Book longlist.<\/a> And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ariadnebooks.com\/\">Ariadne Books<\/a> is doing one as well.)<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite moments with Gert was when I asked if he&#8217;d be willing to come to the U.S. for a reading tour. He politely declined, saying he wasn&#8217;t really interested in coming to the States because there&#8217;s no where you can smoke in this country. And he wasn&#8217;t sure if Red Bull would be as accessible here as it is in Austria . . . <\/p>\n<p>If any English-language obituaries are published, I&#8217;ll update this post and link to them below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the chance to meet Gert Jonke in Vienna a few years back. I was there with Dalkey publisher John O&#8217;Brien, looking for Austrian writers to publish in English. (One of the titles we heard about was A Fucking Masterpiece, which, according to the reading report we got, actually wasn&#8217;t, but it&#8217;s still one [&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":[18116,1836,3306,9536,1596],"class_list":["post-267476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-austrian-literature","tag-cwp","tag-dalkey-archive","tag-gert-jonke","tag-obituary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267476","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=267476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355106,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267476\/revisions\/355106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}