{"id":307116,"date":"2017-10-04T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/10\/04\/third-season-of-the-two-month-review-is-all-about-merce-rodoreda\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:06:37","slug":"third-season-of-the-two-month-review-is-all-about-merce-rodoreda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/10\/04\/third-season-of-the-two-month-review-is-all-about-merce-rodoreda\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Season of the "Two Month Review" is All About Merc\u00e8 Rodoreda"},"content":{"rendered":"

The voting is in and . . . Well, The Physics of Sorrow<\/em> and Maidenhair<\/em> ended up with the most votes. That said, we’re not<\/em> going to do those books next. Instead, since we haven’t featured any books by women yet—and since Catalan is undergoing some serious shit right now—we’re going to start by doing two<\/em> books by Merc\u00e8 Rodoreda: Selected Stories<\/em><\/a> and then Death in Spring<\/em>.<\/a> And then<\/em> we’ll do Physics of Sorrow.<\/em> In fact, for the Physics<\/em> season, we’ll do a live recording in New York with Georgi Gospodinov himself! So, stay tuned. <\/p>\n

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Here’s the schedule for the third season of the Two Month Review<\/em>, the “Rodoreda and Catalan Independence” season:<\/p>\n

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October 26: Introduction to Merc\u00e8 Rodoreda<\/p>\n

November 2: Selected Stories<\/em>: “Blood,” “Threaded Needle,” “Summer,” “Guinea Fowls,” “The Mirror,” and “Happiness” (pages 1-50)<\/p>\n

November 9: Selected Stories<\/em>: “Afternoon at the Cinema,” “Ice Cream,” “Carnival,” “Engaged,” “In a Whisper,” “Departure,” “Friday, June 8” (51-102)<\/p>\n

November 16: Selected Stories<\/em>: “The Beginning,” “Nocturnal,” “The Red Blouse,” “The Fate of Lisa Sperling,” “The Bath,” and “On the Train” (103-143)<\/p>\n

November 23: Selected Stories<\/em>: “Before I Die,” “Ada Liz,” “On a Dark Night,” “Night and Fog,” and “Orl\u00e9ans, Three Kilometers” (144-207)<\/p>\n

November 30: Selected Stories<\/em>: “The Thousand Franc Bill,” “Paralysis,” “It Seemed Like Silk,” “The Salamander,” “Love,” and “White Geranium” (208-255)<\/p>\n

December 7: Death in Spring<\/em> Part One (1-27)<\/p>\n

December 14: Death in Spring<\/em> Part Two (28-68)<\/p>\n

December 21: Death in Spring<\/em> Part Three (69-118)<\/p>\n

December 28: Death in Spring<\/em> Part Four (119-150)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And then we’ll kick off 2018 with Gospodinov’s The Physics of Sorrow<\/em> and will follow up with Mikhail Shiskin’s Maidenhair<\/em>, Dubravka Ugresic’s Fox<\/em>, and Rodrigo Fres\u00e1n’s The Bottom of the Sky.<\/em><\/p>\n

Get the books now<\/a> and join the Goodreads group<\/a> to join in the discussion! And, of course, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes,<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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