{"id":296096,"date":"2014-01-13T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T14:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/01\/13\/fucking-btba\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:39:27","slug":"fucking-btba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/01\/13\/fucking-btba\/","title":{"rendered":"Fucking BTBA!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s BTBA<\/span> post is written by George Carroll, a publishers representative based in Seattle who blogs at North-North-West.<\/a> He is also the soccer editor for Shelf Awareness and he and Chad frequently spent part of the weekend texting about EPL<\/span> match-ups and Manchester Fucking United. He’s also helping to organize our forthcoming World Cup of Literature.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The protagonist of Rafael Bernal\u2019s The Mongolian Conspiracy<\/em>,<\/a> is a police hitman named Filiberto Garcia. His job is to eliminate people as directed by his superiors. He says \u201cPinche!\u201d a lot, mostly in exasperation. Katherine Silver translates \u201cPinche!\u201d as \u201cFucking!\u201d <\/p>\n

So, here\u2019s a synopsis of the book seen through Garcia\u2019s interior monologue:<\/p>\n

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Fucking tame tiger! Fucking goddamn captain! Fucking furniture! Fucking jokes! Fucking Chinamen! Fucking experience! Fucking laws! Fucking Revolution! Fucking Chinamen and old people! Fucking conscience! Fucking loyalty! Fucking sovereignty! Fucking colonel! Fucking mysteries! Fucking gringos! Fucking Outer Mongolia! Fucking souls! Fucking bitch! Fucking tears! Fucking Marta! Fucking Poles! Fucking Chinese gal! Fucking stiffs! Fucking investigation! Fucking gringo! Fucking broad! Fucking Russian! Fucking mission! Fucking washed-up gringa! Fucking little brat! Fucking father! Fucking del Valle! Fucking Charanda! Fucking host! Fucking bills! Fucking Chink! Fucking meat! Fucking hands! Fucking team! Fucking life! Fucking faggot! Fucking Doris! Fucking Liu! Fucking solitude! Fucking wake! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My favorite line from the book actually doesn\u2019t have \u201cfucking\u201d in it. Garcia is dressing to go out, straightening his tie, arranging his handkerchief, examining his nails, \u201cThe only thing he couldn\u2019t fix was the scar on his cheek, but the gringo who\u2019d made it couldn\u2019t fix being dead, either.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The first short story in Zhu Wen\u2019s The Matchmaker, The Apprentice & The Football Fan<\/em><\/a> is Da Ma\u2019s “Way of Talking.” Da Ma is a pretty annoying character. He and his class are sent to northeast China for a month\u2019s training in the People\u2019s Liberation Army. When they\u2019re on the shooting range, he points a rifle at the students on his left and yells \u201cFreeze! Or you\u2019re fucking dead.\u201d One of the students says \u201cFucking hell! . . . That gun\u2019s loaded! Fuck, fuck, fucking fuck.\u201d Four occurrences in one sentence, devoid of other words, is hard to beat. <\/p>\n

I recommend both Rafael Bernal and Zhu Wen\u2019s books highly. They\u2019re very fun reading that I\u2019ve been able to sandwich between The Literary Submissions of High Art. <\/p>\n

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Finally, there\u2019s a book I haven\u2019t received yet—Jens Lapidus\u2019s Never F\u00fcck Up.<\/em><\/a> It\u2019s part of The Stockholm Noir Trilogy, published in Sweden as Aldrig Fucka Upp.<\/em> Nice to know some things just translate easily. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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