{"id":303486,"date":"2016-02-01T16:14:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2016\/02\/01\/send-us-your-comments-on-the-weight-of-things-and-twelve-stations-rtwbc\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:57:26","slug":"send-us-your-comments-on-the-weight-of-things-and-twelve-stations-rtwbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2016\/02\/01\/send-us-your-comments-on-the-weight-of-things-and-twelve-stations-rtwbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Send Us Your Comments on "The Weight of Things" and "Twelve Stations"! [RTWBC]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite all of my New Year Best Intentions, I fell off last week with posting about the two Reading the World Book Club books for January: The Weight of Things<\/em> by Marianne Fritz and Twelve Stations<\/em> by Tomasz R\u00f3\u017cycki. I did read (and enjoyed!) both books and will be talking about both books tomorrow on a podcast with Tom Roberge and Adrian Nathan West. <\/p>\n

Well, in advance of that conversation, I just wanted to remind everyone who happened to read either of these books to send in your comments\/questions either to me directly (chad.post [at] rochester.edu) or the podcast (threepercentpodcast [at] gmail.com). You can also post to the Reading the World Book Club Facebook Group<\/a> or on Twitter using #RTWBC. <\/p>\n

There have been a number of comments and posts on the Facebook Group, including Tony Messenger’s review of The Weight of Things<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n

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A wonderfully bleak, dark, foggy tale, set during a further period of human decline after the second world-war, with Biblical references to Sodom and Gomorrah, Christ and the Madonna, this can be read as a straight forward tale, it can also be mulled over, steered through carefully, and is a work that demands a re-read from the moment you finish it. A worthy contender to make the Best Translated Book Award lists for 2016 and another wonderful addition to the world of Women in Translation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

along with one from David Hebblethwaite:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Weight of Things moves restlessly backwards and forwards in time, which enables the narrative feints that I won\u2019t go into here . . . More fundamentally, though, it disrupts the reader\u2019s feeling of progression: a period of history flattens out into timelessness, a sense that these circumstances cannot be escaped. When I\u2019d finished The Weight of Things, my immediate feeling was one of waking from a beautiful nightmare \u2013 but it\u2019s a nightmare that demands to be revisited.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There are a few other comments on there as well—including multiple requests for a discussion of “come-hither-boys” (thanks, Sparks!)—but if you want to add anything, do it now. We’ll include any and all of these tomorrow in the podcast. <\/p>\n

Then, it’s on to On the Edge<\/em><\/a> by Rafael Chirbes, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa and Monospace<\/em><\/a> by Anne Parian, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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