I’m proud to announce that we have two great events lined up for this fall’s iteration of our annual Reading the World Conversation Series, which all of you should fly into Rochester to attend. <\/p>\n
A Conversation with Jean-Marie Blas de Robl\u00e8s<\/b><\/p>\n
Tuesday, September 24th, 6:00pm
\nWelles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library<\/b><\/p>\n
Publishers Weekly had this to say about Where Tigers Are at Home<\/em>, the Winner of the prestigious Prix M\u00e9dicis: \u201cBlas de Robl\u00e8s simultaneously channels Umberto Eco, Indiana Jones, and Jorge Amado . . . what begins as a faux metabiography turns to picaresque adventure with erotic escapades, scams, and unexpected changes of fortune.\u201d<\/p>\n Come here Open Letter Books director Chad W. Post talk with Jean-Marie Blas de Robl\u00e8s about his novel, about Athanasius Kircher\u2014the bizarre, almost always wrong 17th century philosopher at the center of the book\u2014and about Blas de Robl\u00e8s\u2019s time teaching French literature and philosophy in Brazil, China, Italy, and Taiwan. <\/p>\n *<\/p>\n A Conversation with Simon Fruelund<\/p>\n Tuesday, October 1st, 6:00pm Simon Fruelund, the former editor at Gyldendal, Denmark\u2019s largest publishing house, has burst onto the international literary scene with the publication of two books in English translations this year\u2014_Milk and Other Stories_ and Civil Twilight<\/i>\u2014both of which have received great critical praise. As Alan Cheuse of NPR<\/span> stated, \u201cFruelund is a master of the short form, importing some designs from our own Raymond Carver, applying them to the interstices of the European everyday, and making them his own. The title story is a masterpiece in miniature.\u201d<\/p>\n His translator, K.E. Semmel, recipient of a Danish Arts Council grant and inveterate St. Louis Cardinals fan, will discuss Fruelund\u2019s work with him, touching on issues of translation and trends in Nordic literature as a whole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m proud to announce that we have two great events lined up for this fall’s iteration of our annual Reading the World Conversation Series, which all of you should fly into Rochester to attend. A Conversation with Jean-Marie Blas de Robl\u00e8s Tuesday, September 24th, 6:00pm Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library Publishers Weekly had this to […]<\/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":[50706,25046,53026,31696,25036,50716],"class_list":["post-295146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-jean-marie-blas-de-robles","tag-k-e-semmel","tag-milk-other-stories","tag-rtwcs","tag-simon-fruelund","tag-where-tigers-are-at-home"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295146","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=295146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339226,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295146\/revisions\/339226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWelles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library<\/b><\/p>\n