{"id":269936,"date":"2009-04-03T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/04\/03\/alain-mabanckou-interview\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:10","slug":"alain-mabanckou-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/04\/03\/alain-mabanckou-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Alain Mabanckou Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Lea has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/audio\/2009\/mar\/31\/alain-mabanckou-broken-glass\">great audio interview<\/a> with Alain Mabanckou about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serpentstail.com\/book?id=10924\"><em>Broken Glass<\/em>,<\/a> his second novel to be published in English. (Although apparently only in the UK for now. Soft Skull did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamandrum.com\/bookshop\/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&#38;products_id=39926\"><em>African Psycho<\/em><\/a> a couple years ago, but I haven&#8217;t seen a listing for the new book yet.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/feb\/21\/broken-glass-mabanckou-review\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a> also posted a positive review of <em>Broken Glass<\/em> some time back:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mabanckou knows his French literature (he teaches that subject at <span class=\"caps\">UCLA<\/span>). Broken Glass is a whistlestop tour of French literature and civilisation, and if you don&#8217;t know your Marivaux, your Chateaubriand, your ENAs and Weston shoes you&#8217;ll miss a lot of the gags (&#8220;a quarrel of Brest&#8221;, anyone?) &#8211; but don&#8217;t worry, there are still plenty left.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just French writers who make an appearance. That arch navel-gazer Holden Caulfield (or someone claiming to be him) has a walk-on part, and Broken Glass ends &#8220;we&#8217;ll meet again, in the other world, Holden, we&#8217;ll have a drink together . . . I&#8217;ll tell you what they do with the poor little ducks in cold countries during winter time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although its cultural and intertextual musings could fuel innumerable doctorates, the real meat of Broken Glass is its comic brio, and Mabanckou&#8217;s jokes work the whole spectrum of humour. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/12-pilch#mighty\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/255.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Lea has a great audio interview with Alain Mabanckou about Broken Glass, his second novel to be published in English. (Although apparently only in the UK for now. Soft Skull did African Psycho a couple years ago, but I haven&#8217;t seen a listing for the new book yet.) The Guardian also posted a positive [&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":[19986,1836,196,1646,9646],"class_list":["post-269936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-alain-mabanckou","tag-cwp","tag-guardian","tag-review","tag-richard-lea"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269936","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=269936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324156,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269936\/revisions\/324156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}