{"id":274026,"date":"2009-10-01T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/10\/01\/oct-6-2009-reading-the-world-conversation-series-charlotte-mandell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:15:25","slug":"oct-6-2009-reading-the-world-conversation-series-charlotte-mandell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/10\/01\/oct-6-2009-reading-the-world-conversation-series-charlotte-mandell\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 6, 2009 – Reading the World Conversation Series: Charlotte Mandell"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know we just announced<\/a> the new RTWCS<\/span> events, but we’re already on the heels of the first one next week(!), featuring the incredible French translator Charlotte Mandell. Anyone and everyone is welcome to attend. Here’s all the info:<\/p>\n

OCT<\/span>. 6, 2009
\n5:00 p.m.
\nSloan Auditorium (in Goergen Hall)
\nUniversity of Rochester
\n(free and open to the public)<\/em><\/p>\n

Charlotte Mandell—the French translator of Balzac, Proust, Flaubert, and others—reads from her new translation of Mathias \u00c9nard’s Zone<\/em> (forthcoming from Open Letter) and takes questions about literary translation.<\/p>\n

Zone<\/em> has already been called “The novel of the decade, if not of the century\u201d (Christophe Claro). In short, it is a 517-page, one-sentence novel about a spy, a train ride, a briefcase, and the pervasive violence of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Mandell is one of the great French-to-English translators, and has translated such prominent works as:<\/p>\n