{"id":295926,"date":"2013-12-18T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2013\/12\/18\/latest-review-the-hare-by-cesar-aira\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:42","slug":"latest-review-the-hare-by-cesar-aira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2013\/12\/18\/latest-review-the-hare-by-cesar-aira\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "The Hare" by C\u00e9sar Aira"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews Section<\/a> is by Emily Davis on C\u00e9sar Aira’s The Hare<\/em>, from New Directions.<\/p>\n

Emily is a graduate of the University of Rochester’s MA in Literary Translation Studies program, and now lives in India, rubbing elbows with other awesome translators, and is also one of the contributing translators to Open Letter’s forthcoming Spanish fiction anthology. (She’s also the original East Coast version of me\u2014or I’m the original Midwest version of her. For those of you who know either of us, you know both of us.)<\/p>\n

Here’s a bit of Emily’s review:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to boil down a wild, digressive, fantastical plot into a neat, compact, simple summary, but here\u2019s an attempt: Clarke, a British naturalist, is traveling through Patagonia in, say, the 1830s, and as he meets more and more of the local Mapuche people, he gets more and more caught up in their mysterious politics as he\u2019s asked to help find a chief who\u2019s disappeared into thin air, all the while also searching for the so-called Legibrerian hare. And, for those of you following along at home, some parts of the story here are loosely (very<\/em> loosely) based on actual events that took place in Argentina in, say, the 1830s. Juan Manuel de Rosas, \u201cthe Restorer of the Laws\u201d himself, features in the opening of the book, and Calfucur\u00e1 appears (and disappears) prominently as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The real star, though, is the pampas. This isn\u2019t anything new\u2014the Patagonian wilderness plays an important role in many of Aira\u2019s books\u2014but The Hare<\/em> is all about the setting and its special, otherworldly properties. Clarke is obsessed with the pampas as heterotopia\u2014a place where the otherwise impossible is possible, because the laws of physics that govern the rest of the world don\u2019t seem to apply here. At least, the geometry\u2019s wonky, and the way you can see (or can\u2019t see) things on the pampas doesn\u2019t always make sense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the entire review, go here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest addition to our Reviews Section is by Emily Davis on C\u00e9sar Aira’s The Hare, from New Directions. Emily is a graduate of the University of Rochester’s MA in Literary Translation Studies program, and now lives in India, rubbing elbows with other awesome translators, and is also one of the contributing translators to Open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67456],"tags":[866,36566,56,7676,1646,6516,54396],"class_list":["post-295926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-cesar-aira","tag-emily-davis","tag-new-directions","tag-nick-caistor","tag-review","tag-spanish-literature","tag-the-hare"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295926","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310266,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295926\/revisions\/310266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}