{"id":291996,"date":"2012-10-26T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/10\/26\/three-percent-48-the-difficulties-of-difficult-books\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:05","slug":"three-percent-48-the-difficulties-of-difficult-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/10\/26\/three-percent-48-the-difficulties-of-difficult-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #48: The Difficulties of Difficult Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a bit of a hiatus, Tom Roberge and Chad W. Post are back to discuss what we mean when we say that a book is “difficult.” They use a range of examples, from Finnegans Wake<\/em> to Mrs. Dalloway<\/em> to define a few different categories of reading “difficulty,” such as, not being compelled, and having to read a book like a puzzle. <\/p>\n

For a Three Percent podcast, this one is pretty serious, and even more interesting than usual. And for those who are interested, here’s a list of all the books\/artists discussed this week:<\/p>\n

Passion According to G.H.<\/em> by Clarice Lispector
\nMaidenhair<\/em> by Mikhail Shishkin
\nFinnegans Wake<\/em> by James Joyce
\nThe Kite Runner<\/em> by Khaled Hosseini
\nClockwork Orange<\/em> by Anthony Burgess
\nMrs. Dalloway<\/em> by Virginia Wolff
\nP.T. Anderson’s movies
\nThe Sound and the Fury<\/em> by William Faulkner
\nHawthorne & Child<\/em> by Keith Ridgway
\nOnly Revolutions<\/em> by Mark Z. Danielewski
\nLolita<\/em> by Vladimir Nabokov
\nPale Fire<\/em> by Vladimir Nabokov
\nCatcher in the Rye<\/em> by J.D. Salinger
\nA Wilderness of Error<\/em> by Errol Morris<\/p>\n

This week’s music is Breezeblocks<\/a> by alt-J (\u2206), which is a cool song, with a really disturbed video—but one that fits this week’s podcast pretty well, since the narrative technique employed forces the viewer to puzzle things out, with the end changing the viewers understanding of what happened quite dramatically. <\/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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