{"id":254696,"date":"2007-08-20T16:11:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/20\/ny-times-fiction-roundup\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:48","slug":"ny-times-fiction-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/20\/ny-times-fiction-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Fiction Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a great fiction chronicle<\/a> Sunday’s New York Times Book Review<\/i> by Alison McCulloch. A few international writers are featured, including two of my favorites: Jean Echenoz and Robert Walser. <\/p>\n

Ravel<\/i><\/a> by Jean Echenoz has been getting some decent praise, and Ms. McCulloch calls it a “beautifully musical little novel.” <\/p>\n

The Assistant<\/i><\/a> by Robert Walser has already gotten some play here at Three Percent, and it’s great to see it get some deserved attention in the Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Weissman reviewed the Walser for the L.A. Times<\/i><\/a> this past weekend, and has this to say:<\/p>\n

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The Assistant<\/i> has, at times, the rambling feel of a journal. Perhaps it could have benefited from a rigorous edit, but Walser fans will appreciate the loose approach. Not since Laurence Sterne has the digression been taken on such lovely excursions, in the form of a mental walkabout that occurs in nearly every scene.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Which makes me even more interested in reading this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a great fiction chronicle Sunday’s New York Times Book Review by Alison McCulloch. A few international writers are featured, including two of my favorites: Jean Echenoz and Robert Walser. Ravel by Jean Echenoz has been getting some decent praise, and Ms. McCulloch calls it a “beautifully musical little novel.” The Assistant by Robert Walser […]<\/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":[4546,1836,1206,316,226,1226,1646,1176,1186],"class_list":["post-254696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-benjamin-weissman","tag-cwp","tag-jean-echenoz","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-new-york-times","tag-ravel","tag-review","tag-robert-walser","tag-the-assistant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254696","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=254696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328536,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254696\/revisions\/328536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}