{"id":273756,"date":"2009-09-22T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/09\/22\/natasha-wimmer-and-roberto-bolanos-forthcoming-books\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:15:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:15:26","slug":"natasha-wimmer-and-roberto-bolanos-forthcoming-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/09\/22\/natasha-wimmer-and-roberto-bolanos-forthcoming-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Wimmer and Roberto Bolano&#39;s Forthcoming Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catranslation.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/natasha-wimmer-on-forthcoming-bolano-books\/\">Two Words<\/a> &#8212; the excellent blog of the Center for the Art of Translation &#8212; posted an interesting, brief conversation with Natasha Wimmer about her forthcoming Bolano translations. I think any and all Bolano fans will be especially intrigued by this bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Natasha Wimmer: I\u2019ve read <em>The Third Reich<\/em> (and in fact, it looks like I\u2019ll be translating it, though I have yet to sign on the dotted line). It\u2019s about an elaborate board game called <em>The Third Reich<\/em> (Bola\u00f1o was a great fan of war games), it takes place on the Costa Brava, and it pits a German tourist against an enigmatic South American who rents paddle boats on the beach. I loved it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But this is just one of her Bolano projects. She&#8217;s also translating <em>Antwerp<\/em> (technically his first novel, although it wasn&#8217;t published until 2002) and <em>Entre parentesis<\/em> (a collection of nonfiction) for New Directions. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/8-gavelis\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/204.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Words &#8212; the excellent blog of the Center for the Art of Translation &#8212; posted an interesting, brief conversation with Natasha Wimmer about her forthcoming Bolano translations. I think any and all Bolano fans will be especially intrigued by this bit: Natasha Wimmer: I\u2019ve read The Third Reich (and in fact, it looks like [&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":[27576,27586,9036,56,756,27566],"class_list":["post-273756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-antwerp","tag-entre-parentesis","tag-natasha-wimmer","tag-new-directions","tag-roberto-bolano","tag-third-reich"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273756","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=273756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351166,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273756\/revisions\/351166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}