{"id":289296,"date":"2012-02-17T18:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/02\/17\/three-percent-29-get-to-the-whale\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:07","slug":"three-percent-29-get-to-the-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/02\/17\/three-percent-29-get-to-the-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #29: Get to the Whale!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s podcast is a special feature on Kaija Straumanis, who recently received her MA in literary translation from the University of Rochester. Although our conversation is a bit rangy (and if you think this is random, you should visit Pl\u00fcb sometime), we focus mainly on Kaija’s translation of Latvian author Inga \u0100bele\u2019s Paisums<\/em> (High Tide<\/em>). <\/p>\n

High Tide<\/em> is a somewhat fractured novel that tells the story of three main characters: Ieva, a deeply depressed screenwriter; Aksels, her former lover; and Andrejs, her husband, who was imprisoned for murdering Aksels. Structurally, this novel is pretty interesting as well. It opens with a dream, then inhabits the minds of the main characters in a series of “present day” chapters. After we see where these characters are post-jail, post-murder, etc., the book starts counting backwards, with sections about the 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, to fill in certain aspects of the plot and characterization. <\/p>\n

To help make this podcast make more sense, I’d highly recommend reading this fairly long sample<\/a> that covers a lot of the bits that we talk about. <\/p>\n

For more information about the University of Rochester’s Translation Programs, just click here.<\/a> <\/p>\n

And in terms of Kaija, in addition to translating from Latvian and German (on occasion), she’s a very good photographer.<\/a> Oh, and she’s obsessed with Moby-Dick<\/em> (in a way), which maybe explains the title of this podcast, and the reason why we’re using Yellow Ostrich’s Whale<\/a> as this week’s intro\/outro music. <\/p>\n

As always you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by clicking here<\/a>. To subscribe with other podcast downloading software, such as Google’s Listen<\/a>, copy the following link<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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