{"id":307456,"date":"2017-12-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/12\/21\/two-month-review-3-9-death-in-spring-pgs-69-118\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:06:35","slug":"two-month-review-3-9-death-in-spring-pgs-69-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/12\/21\/two-month-review-3-9-death-in-spring-pgs-69-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Month Review #3.9: Death in Spring (pgs. 69-118)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mara Faye Lethem joins us this week to talk about Catalonia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caganer\">scatological obsession,<\/a> the challenges of the current political situation, Max Besora\u2019s wild novel, and Rodoreda\u2019s triumphant return to the best-seller list. Then they get into a more autobiographical reading of this section of <em>Death in Spring<\/em>, a section that\u2019s all about death and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/products\/death-in-spring\"><em>Death in Spring<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/products\/the-selected-stories-of-merce-rodoreda\"><em>Selected Stories<\/em><\/a> are available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/\">Open Letter website,<\/a> and if you use 2MONTH at checkout, you\u2019ll get 20% off.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to comment on this episode\u2014or on the book in general\u2014either on this post, or at the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/group\/show\/216472-two-month-review\">GoodReads Group.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/open_letter\">Open Letter,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadwpost\">Chad Post,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianWood_\">Brian Wood,<\/a> and for more thoughts and information about upcoming guests. And be sure to read all of Mara\u2019s translations, including <em>The Boys<\/em> by Toni Sala and <em>Wonderful World<\/em> by Javier Calvo.<\/p>\n<p>And you can find all the Two Month Review posts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?s=tag&amp;t=two-month-review\">clicking here.<\/a> And be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/two-month-review\/id1253564436\">leave us a review on iTunes!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The music for this season of Two Month Review is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/74FIbLN_P_k\">Montseny<\/a> by Els Surfing Sirles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6074945\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffa828\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mara Faye Lethem joins us this week to talk about Catalonia\u2019s scatological obsession, the challenges of the current political situation, Max Besora\u2019s wild novel, and Rodoreda\u2019s triumphant return to the best-seller list. Then they get into a more autobiographical reading of this section of Death in Spring, a section that\u2019s all about death and chaos. 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