{"id":255746,"date":"2007-09-11T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/11\/this-weeks-pw-reviews-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:10:14","slug":"this-weeks-pw-reviews-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/11\/this-weeks-pw-reviews-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week's PW Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Couple interesting books reviewed in this week’s “Publishers Weekly<\/i>,” including the latest Lydie Salvayre book, Power of Flies<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Salvayre\u2019s fifth novel to be translated into English is a tightly introspective series of first-person confessions by an arrogant murder convict whose life was transformed by reading Blaise Pascal. [. . .] The novel seethes in a classically dark, French way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“A classically dark, French way”—nice. This is a book we’d love to review if anyone from Dalkey Archive happens to be reading this blog.<\/p>\n

(In the issue of full disclosure, this was another Dalkey book I helped acquire while I was there. I’m a big fan of Salvayre’s—especially The Company of Ghosts<\/i> and The Award<\/i>.)<\/p>\n

Another Dalkey book reviewed this week is Place Names<\/i> by Jean Ricardou, translated by Jordan Stump, and which sounds wild and promising.<\/p>\n

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A little bit Borges and a little bit Calvino, French postmodernist Ricardou\u2019s newly translated 1969 novel proves a circuitous trek through a fictive landscape of eight metaphorically named places. Banni\u00e8re, Beaufort, Belarbre, Belcroix, Cendrier, Chaumont, Hautbois and Monteaux\u2014each gets its own chapter, and each serves as a source from which language springs, along with the whimsically opaque plot. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The only other fiction translation reviewed in PW<\/i> this week is Elling<\/i> by Norwegian author Ingvar Ambj\u00f8rnsen, which is called a “heartening work.” And for that, I’ll leave this book to someone else to get excited about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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