The first quarterfinal matchup features two prominent, stellar authors: Roberto Bola\u00f1o represents Chile with his novel By Night in Chile<\/em>, facing off against Italian author Elena Ferrante and her Days of Abandonment.<\/em><\/p>\n Bola\u00f1o made it to this point by annihilating the Netherlands and Koch’s The Dinner<\/em> by a score of 3-0,<\/a> then taking out Brazil’s Buarque and Budapest<\/em> by a score of 3-1.<\/a><\/p>\n Ferrante got here by knocking off England’s Zadie Smith and NW<\/em> 5-3<\/a> and then getting by Japan’s Haruki Murakami and 1Q84<\/em> by a score of 3-2.<\/a><\/p>\n So here we go . . . <\/p>\n Trevor Berrett: Chile<\/b><\/p>\n Two brutal teams come together today, Italy stern and frowning because for them this is a real fight, Chile smirking because they already know the fight doesn’t matter: it’s after the match that the storm of shit begins.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rhea Lyons: Italy<\/b><\/p>\n I love By Night in Chile<\/em> but I identify with Olga. She is close to my heart.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jeffrey Zuckerman: Italy<\/b><\/p>\n With the first line, Italy scored with a direct, violent kick not even the world’s fastest goalie could have seen coming: “One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me.” And, with a last-minute headbutt, Chile finally scored in the final minute of the game. But it was too late: Italy’s Ferrante played with a fire and a speed that Chile’s Bola\u00f1o could never have hoped to match.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shaun Randol: Chile<\/b><\/p>\n In By Night in Chile<\/em>, a lucid man abandons his people. In Days of Abandonment<\/em>, a woman abandoned loses her mind. Chile’s ball-handling is steady and consistent. The bench is deep and there’s a real sense of teamwork. Abandonment’s play is frantic, uneven, and the striker—Olga—is a ball hog. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n George Carroll: Chile<\/b><\/p>\n There’s a restaurant in Berkeley, CA called Cafe Gratitude. The entrees are named “I Am Terrific” (Pad Thai), “I Am Magical” (Black Bean Burger), “I Am Great” (Granola), and so on. The last time I was there, the server approached me and, as a greeting, informed me what she was grateful for, then asked me that same. Maybe I had low blood sugar, maybe I thought it was silly, maybe I didn’t want to discuss my wife and dog. But I didn’t answer, didn’t participate in the ordering ritual. Today, I might have said that I’m grateful for book recommendations from my trusted friends. <\/p>\n Paul Yamazaki from City Lights Books suggested that I read The Savage Detectives.<\/em> Which I did, then more, and more. I’m not one of those I-read-Bolano-back-when fans; I hate those assholes. I get to recommend him to others now, without the cloying pretension. <\/p>\n I’ve got nothing against Ferrante. Reading Story of a New Name<\/em> for #BTBA2014 was a pleasant experience. <\/p>\n By Night in Chile<\/em> is the clear winner. If it should lose, I suggest a double WCOL<\/span> inquiry into this match and, of course, the Marias\/Murnane match.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jeff Waxman: Chile<\/b><\/p>\n Bola\u00f1o. Duh.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And there you have it, Roberto Bola\u00f1o’s By Night in Chile<\/em> moves on to the semifinals to play either How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone<\/em> or Austerlitz.<\/em><\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n The first quarterfinal matchup features two prominent, stellar authors: Roberto Bola\u00f1o represents Chile with his novel By Night in Chile, facing off against Italian author Elena Ferrante and her Days of Abandonment. Bola\u00f1o made it to this point by annihilating the Netherlands and Koch’s The Dinner by a score of 3-0, then taking out Brazil’s […]<\/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":[12946,56836,766,12406,12416,756,56386],"class_list":["post-298566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ann-goldstein","tag-by-night-in-chile","tag-chris-andrews","tag-days-of-abandonment","tag-elena-ferrante","tag-roberto-bolano","tag-world-cup-of-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298566","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=298566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337556,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298566\/revisions\/337556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}