{"id":292876,"date":"2013-02-01T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2013\/02\/01\/this-is-insane-insanely-cool\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:04:14","slug":"this-is-insane-insanely-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2013\/02\/01\/this-is-insane-insanely-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Insane [Insanely Cool]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/30\/finnegans-wake-follows-tocqueville-onto-chinese-best-seller-list\/\"><em>New York Times<\/em> Arts Blog:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>James Joyce\u2019s fiendishly difficult novel \u201cFinnegans Wake\u201d has been called many things since it first began appearing in portions in 1924, including \u201cthe most colossal leg-pull in literature,\u201d \u201cthe work of a psychopath,\u201d and \u201cthe chief ironic epic of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now, it can add another designation: best seller in China.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A new translation of the novel has sold out its initial print run of 8,000 since it appeared on Dec. 25, thanks in part to an unusual billboard campaign in major Chinese cities, The Associated Press reported. In Shanghai, where the book was advertised on 16 billboards, sales were second only to a new biography of Deng Xiaoping in the \u201cgood books\u201d category, according to the Shanghai News and Publishing Bureau.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The book\u2019s surprise success has drawn some clucking from Chinese observers (how do you say \u201ccoffee table trophy\u201d in Mandarin?). But at a panel on Tuesday, the translator, Dai Congrong of Fudan University, who spent nearly 10 years wrestling with Joyce\u2019s runaway sentences and knotty coinages, confessed that even she didn\u2019t fully understand the book. \u201cI would not be faithful to the original intent of the novel if my translation made it easy to comprehend,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times Arts Blog: James Joyce\u2019s fiendishly difficult novel \u201cFinnegans Wake\u201d has been called many things since it first began appearing in portions in 1924, including \u201cthe most colossal leg-pull in literature,\u201d \u201cthe work of a psychopath,\u201d and \u201cthe chief ironic epic of our time.\u201d Now, it can add another designation: best [&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":[456,49906,48306,226],"class_list":["post-292876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-china","tag-finnegans-wake","tag-james-joyce","tag-new-york-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292876","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=292876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340126,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292876\/revisions\/340126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}