{"id":300256,"date":"2015-01-21T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2015\/01\/21\/latest-review-fantomas-versus-the-multinational-vampires-an-attainable-utopia\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:36","slug":"latest-review-fantomas-versus-the-multinational-vampires-an-attainable-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2015\/01\/21\/latest-review-fantomas-versus-the-multinational-vampires-an-attainable-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia""},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews<\/a> section is a piece by Cameron Rowe on Julio Cort\u00e1zar’s Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia<\/em>, translated by David Kurnick and published by Semiotext(e).<\/p>\n

Cameron (some of you may have met her at ALTA<\/span> last fall) is a current student in the MA in Literary Translation Studies program here at the University of Rochester, and will be doing her thesis on a translation from Spanish into English. She’s also a fellow-Minnesotan, and has been known to rock out to Taylor Swift. Here’s the beginning of her review:<\/p>\n

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Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia<\/em> (narrated by Julio Cort\u00e1zar) is, not disappointingly, as wild a book as its title suggests. It is a half-novella half-graphic novel story about . . . what, exactly? A European tribunal, Latin American literary figures, a comic book superhero, international conspiracies, an attack on culture, multinational vampires.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Fantomas<\/em> begins with \u201cthe narrator\u201d reading a Mexican newspaper on a Belgian train (it was the only paper available at the train station), increasingly distracted, in spite of himself, by the comic book he finds inside\u2014an issue of Fantomas<\/em>: \u201cInteligencia en llamas.\u201d It becomes clear that the protagonist, referred to by the narrator as \u201cthe narrator,\u201d is actually Cort\u00e1zar himself. \u201cThe narrator\u2019s\u201d narrative bleeds into that of the comic book he is reading, which pulls in other figures of contemporary literary history, including Octavio Paz, Susan Sontag, and Gabriel Garc\u00eda Marquez.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The writing is quick and snappy and very funny. It\u2019s also very strange and a little perplexing. A woman at the train station in Brussels only has Mexican newspapers to sell, thinks Mexico is \u201cover near Asia, everyone knows that,\u201d and discusses the delicacies of radioactive hake, all over the course of a page and a half. Later on, the narrator tells Susan Sontag to fuck off. (Actually, not quite. He tells her he \u201cloves her too much to tell her to fuck off.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

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