{"id":268856,"date":"2009-02-24T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/02\/24\/stephen-to-the-rescue\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:19","slug":"stephen-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/02\/24\/stephen-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>As I don&#8217;t have the time, I want to <a href=\"http:\/\/this-space.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/getting-kindly-ones-very-wrong.html\">respond very briefly<\/a> to Michiko Kakutani&#8217;s review of The Kindly Ones. This is the most inept, ill-perceiving reviews of the novel I can imagine (though one other runs it close). &#8220;Aue is clearly a deranged creature,&#8221; she writes &#8220;and his madness turns his story into a voyeuristic spectacle&#8221;. Well, that is true only to the extent to which one ignores how Aue&#8217;s fall between life and death determines the narrative and how we should thereby read it. But, of course, Kakutani speaks from a position of moral and psychological authority. As someone employed by a newspaper that manufactured consent for invasions of sovereign nations with the consequent death of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, she has nothing in common with Max Aue. Clearly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although he may be making Michiko and Michael&#8217;s argument for them&mdash;it&#8217;d be easier to feel we are all a little Max Aue if Max Aue was a little more like us&mdash;he at least has helped bump the book back up my list a bit. And I&#8217;m really looking forward to what he has to say when he has some more time.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll start in on it tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I don&#8217;t have the time, I want to respond very briefly to Michiko Kakutani&#8217;s review of The Kindly Ones. This is the most inept, ill-perceiving reviews of the novel I can imagine (though one other runs it close). &#8220;Aue is clearly a deranged creature,&#8221; she writes &#8220;and his madness turns his story into a [&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":[2136,1646,18736,20336],"class_list":["post-268856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-review","tag-the-kindly-ones","tag-this-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268856","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=268856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324416,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268856\/revisions\/324416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}