{"id":264406,"date":"2008-09-04T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/09\/04\/bookforum-the-best-news\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:52","slug":"bookforum-the-best-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/09\/04\/bookforum-the-best-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookforum: The Best News . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

The September\/October\/November issue of Bookforum<\/em><\/a> went online yesterday, and is absolutely loaded with reviews of great books.<\/p>\n

Of course, in a somewhat self-serving way, I’m especially excited about this issue since it has a very positive review<\/a> of the first Open Letter title: Nobody’s Home<\/em> by Dubravka Ugresic.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Being at home in the world, as exile and citizen, likewise defined Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9 Nina Berberova: \u201cI always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude . . . that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.\u201d Ugresic might agree, as she allows The Ministry of Pain to end with a reprieve for Tanja. But what happens when borders and the identities they engender cease to have meaning or, in the case of Ugresic\u2019s Yugoslavia, cease to exist? Ugresic cites the case of Ivo Andri\u0107. Once considered a \u201cYugoslav writer,\u201d Andri\u0107 was reclassified by a Croatian lexicon in the interest of tidying up the category of domestic literature: He was defined \u201cby blood (as a Croatian writer), by residence (as a Serbian writer), and by themes (as a Bosnian writer).\u201d The notion that a literary text must bear the burden of identification tags is, for Ugresic, an affront; it entails tacit approval of the idea that \u201cthe field of literature is nothing more than a realm of geopolitics.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In addition to this review though, there’s a long list of pieces I want to read:<\/p>\n

Rick Moody on The Sacred Book of the Werewolf<\/em> by Victor Pelevin;<\/a><\/p>\n

Rivka Galchen on The Only Son<\/em> by St\u00e9phane Audeguy;<\/a><\/p>\n

John Freeman on To Siberia<\/em> by Per Petterson;<\/a><\/p>\n

Britt Peterson on “Senselessness<\/em> by Horacio Castellanos Moya;”:<\/p>\n

Sarah Fay on A Manuscript of Ashes<\/em> by Antonio Mu\u00f1oz Molina;<\/a><\/p>\n

Tayt Harlin on Voice Over<\/em> by C\u00e9line Curiol;<\/a><\/p>\n

and, Craig Seligman on What Can I Do When Everything\u2019s on Fire?<\/em> by Ant\u00f3nio Lobo Antunes.<\/a><\/p>\n

And that’s just on the fiction side . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The September\/October\/November issue of Bookforum went online yesterday, and is absolutely loaded with reviews of great books. Of course, in a somewhat self-serving way, I’m especially excited about this issue since it has a very positive review of the first Open Letter title: Nobody’s Home by Dubravka Ugresic. Being at home in the world, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[126,1836,2186,1646],"class_list":["post-264406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bookforum","tag-cwp","tag-dubravka-ugresic","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264406","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=264406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325596,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264406\/revisions\/325596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}