{"id":291016,"date":"2012-06-23T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/06\/23\/remembering-alicia-steimberg\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:04:25","slug":"remembering-alicia-steimberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/06\/23\/remembering-alicia-steimberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Alicia Steimberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world lost an incredible writer this past week. Jewish-Argentinean author <a href=\"http:\/\/jwa.org\/encyclopedia\/article\/steimberg-alicia\">Alicia Steimberg<\/a>, best-known for her novel <i><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Musicians_watchmakers.html?id=FeNeAAAAMAAJ\">Musicians and Watchmakers<\/i><\/a>, died suddenly of a heart attack one week ago. To commemorate her life and works, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishfiction.net\/\">JewishFiction.net<\/a> has published an early-release excerpt of her novel <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishfiction.net\/index.php\/publisher\/articleview\/frmArticleID\/201\/?utm_source=announcement&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=innocent_spirit&amp;utm_campaign=announcements\">Innocent Spirit<\/i><\/a>, which was scheduled to print in the upcoming August issue. <\/p>\n<p>Says editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noragold.com\/\">Nora Gold<\/a> of Steimberg: &#8220;During the preceding months, [Steimberg] and I were in touch a number of times . . . Even in the short time we corresponded, it was obvious what an unusual person she was: full of warmth and completely unpretentious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishfiction.net\/index.php\/publisher\/articleview\/frmArticleID\/201\/?utm_source=announcement&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=innocent_spirit&amp;utm_campaign=announcements\">here<\/a> to read Steimberg\u2019s excerpted novel. Her text grapples with tensions of faith, social status, and coming-of-age in a devoutly Catholic society: \u201c. . .we never discuss our respective misery,\u201d her middle-school narrator confesses. \u201cIn our class there are at least two girls who are driven to school by a private chauffeur. It\u2019s a sure bet they don\u2019t leave used sanitary napkins under their dressers. And they don\u2019t carry a thermos with hot coffee and milk into their bedrooms, either, in order to be able to get up in the icy mornings when it\u2019s colder inside the house than out.\u201d Steimberg poignantly and precisely captures the confusion and insecurity of adolescence, as well as the devastating sense of \u201cotherness\u201d experienced by her Jewish narrator.<\/p>\n<p>Following the excerpt, translator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trans-latino-trans-lation.com\/\">Andrea Labinger<\/a> shares a moving tribute to Steimberg. The author\u2019s irrepressible, joyful spirit comes to life in Labinger\u2019s prose: \u201cAlicia never distinguished between the minutia of everyday life \u2013 the aroma of coffee, a recipe for <i>pastel de papas<\/i>, the intimate language of eroticism and the erotic intimacy of language \u2013 and her constant preoccupation with the \u201cbig,\u201d transcendental questions. Like most great souls, Alicia didn\u2019t take herself too seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world lost an incredible writer this past week. Jewish-Argentinean author Alicia Steimberg, best-known for her novel Musicians and Watchmakers, died suddenly of a heart attack one week ago. To commemorate her life and works, JewishFiction.net has published an early-release excerpt of her novel Innocent Spirit, which was scheduled to print in the upcoming August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[47806,5886,47836,47816,47846,47826],"class_list":["post-291016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-alicia-steimberg","tag-andrea-labinger","tag-innocent-spirit","tag-jewish-fiction-net","tag-musicians-and-watchmakers","tag-nora-gold"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291016","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\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340976,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291016\/revisions\/340976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}