{"id":278626,"date":"2010-06-18T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/06\/18\/planet-mag-interview-with-alejandro-zambra\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:31:59","slug":"planet-mag-interview-with-alejandro-zambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/06\/18\/planet-mag-interview-with-alejandro-zambra\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Mag interview with Alejandro Zambra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planet Magazine just posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planet-mag.com\/2010\/books\/sergio-missana\/alejandro-zambra\/\">an interview<\/a> with Alejandro Zambra:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier wrote in an essay that a Baroque style was the natural mode for Latin American fiction. He claimed that an excess of language was needed to account for an unknown reality. It was not possible to write \u201ca ceiba\u201d, he said, as one wrote \u201ca pine tree\u201d. It was necessary to describe and define the ceiba. Is it necessary to create a Latin American minimalism?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No, it isn\u2019t. I don\u2019t promote minimalism nor maximalism. I think people should write what they want and need to write. I think Carpentier\u2019s observation is beautiful, but it implies a risky idea regarding audiences. Whom do we have to explain ourselves to? I believe to no one. We should not write to let the ceiba be known. We should write because of a personal need, because it\u2019s what we do best.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/22-zambra\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/458.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planet Magazine just posted an interview with Alejandro Zambra: Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier wrote in an essay that a Baroque style was the natural mode for Latin American fiction. He claimed that an excess of language was needed to account for an unknown reality. It was not possible to write \u201ca ceiba\u201d, he said, as [&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":[9446,2136,33266],"class_list":["post-278626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-alejandro-zambra","tag-ejvl","tag-planet-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278626","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=278626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348096,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278626\/revisions\/348096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}