{"id":267116,"date":"2008-12-29T16:38:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T16:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/12\/29\/aldo-and-jeanne-scaglione-prize-for-a-translation-of-a-literary-work\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:28","slug":"aldo-and-jeanne-scaglione-prize-for-a-translation-of-a-literary-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/12\/29\/aldo-and-jeanne-scaglione-prize-for-a-translation-of-a-literary-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

One other MLA<\/span> thing worth mentioning is that Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush (of Middlebury College and Northwestern University respectively) won this year’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for their translation of St\u00e8les<\/em> by Victor Segalen, which was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2007. <\/p>\n

NYRB<\/span> published Segalen’s Rene Leys<\/em><\/a> a few years back, and based on the bits I’ve read of Segalen’s biography, both of these books are on my “to read” shelf. Here’s a bit from a review of St\u00e8les<\/em> that appeared in The Believer<\/em> (today it’s all about The Believer<\/em>) earlier this year:<\/p>\n

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When Victor Segalen first printed St\u00e8les<\/em> in Beijing in 1912, the Republic of China had just been formed, ending two millennia of dynastic rule. When he expanded and republished the book in Paris in 1914, the Western powers were on the verge of successive world wars that would effectively end their colonial system of governance. Five years later, Segalen was dead at the age of forty-one, from either suicide or a severe foot injury suffered while taking a walk in the woods.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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So when Segalen refers to \u201cthe crumbling unsteadiness of the Empire,\u201d it\u2019s not entirely clear to which sovereignty he\u2019s referring, a situation made even more confusing by the fact that he was a European living in China who wrote sections of St\u00e8les<\/em> in the voice of an imaginary emperor. If this is history as an allegory for the psyche, then Segalen\u2014unlike many writers, adventurers, and hippies before and since\u2014didn\u2019t go to the East to find himself. Rather, he was committed to \u201cthe intoxicating eddies of the great river Diversity,\u201d along with a desire to saturate himself in Chinese culture.\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One other MLA thing worth mentioning is that Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush (of Middlebury College and Northwestern University respectively) won this year’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for their translation of St\u00e8les by Victor Segalen, which was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2007. NYRB published Segalen’s Rene Leys a few years back, and […]<\/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":[17996,1836,1646,9486,17986,2036,17976],"class_list":["post-267116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-christopher-bush","tag-cwp","tag-review","tag-steles","tag-timothy-billings","tag-victor-segalen","tag-wesleyan-university-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267116","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=267116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324806,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267116\/revisions\/324806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}