{"id":277186,"date":"2010-03-11T16:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/03\/11\/the-greatest-event-since-it-and-the-world-began-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:41:02","slug":"the-greatest-event-since-it-and-the-world-began-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/03\/11\/the-greatest-event-since-it-and-the-world-began-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#34;The Greatest Event Since It and the World Began&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now that the Best Translated Book Awards are over, I can fully concentrate on the next event&#8212;one for Macedonio Fernandez&#8217;s <em>The Museum of Eterna&#8217;s Novel (The First Good Novel)<\/em> that is <a href=\"http:\/\/as.americas-society.org\/calevent.php?id=740\">taking place tonight at the Americas Society tonight at 7pm.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our cheeky title for this event comes from Macedonio himself, who, within one of the fifty-some odd prologues to <em>Museum<\/em>, refers to the book as &#8220;The Best Novel since both It and the World Began.&#8221; Which is plan brilliant. Because it <em>is<\/em> one of the best novels ever written. It&#8217;s amazingly playful, innovative, and thought-provoking, but it&#8217;s also one of the most heartfelt love letters ever. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be moderating tonight&#8217;s event, which will feature superstar translator Edith Grossman (who is also the author <em>Why Translation Matters<\/em>), Margaret Schwartz (who translated <em>Museum<\/em>), and Todd Garth (author of <em>The Self of the City: Macedonio Fernandez, the Argentine Avant-Garde, and Modernity in Buenos Aires<\/em>). With such great panelists, and such an amazing subject (Macedonio may well be the quirkiest of all quirky writers), this is sure to be a spectacular event.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the area and want to come out, the Americas Society is at 680 Park Avenue (68th St.). Here&#8217;s info on how to <span class=\"caps\">RSVP<\/span> for the event:<\/p>\n<p>Americas Society Members:  membersres@americas-society.org or (212) 277-8359, ext. 4<\/p>\n<p>Non-Members: Visit www.americas-society.org <\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now that the Best Translated Book Awards are over, I can fully concentrate on the next event&#8212;one for Macedonio Fernandez&#8217;s The Museum of Eterna&#8217;s Novel (The First Good Novel) that is taking place tonight at the Americas Society tonight at 7pm. Our cheeky title for this event comes from Macedonio himself, who, within 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":[31156,19516,5326,12626,31136,23646,1866,31166],"class_list":["post-277186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-americas-society","tag-edith-grossman","tag-events","tag-macedonio-fernandez","tag-margaret-schwartz","tag-museum-of-eternas-novel","tag-open-letter","tag-todd-garth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277186","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=277186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349216,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277186\/revisions\/349216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}