{"id":274386,"date":"2009-10-15T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/10\/15\/video-reading-the-world-w-charlotte-mandell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:15:22","slug":"video-reading-the-world-w-charlotte-mandell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/10\/15\/video-reading-the-world-w-charlotte-mandell\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Reading the World w\/ Charlotte Mandell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video is now up from our Reading the World Conversation Series event with the acclaimed French-to-English translator Charlotte Mandell. It&#8217;s in seven parts, and there&#8217;s interesting stuff throughout&#8212;with parts 1-3 comprising the reading and parts 4-7 comprising the questions\/answer portion (conducted with aplomb by our own senior editor, E.J. Van Lanen).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"380\" height=\"240\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/63A8EDCF4B0FEB1C&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/63A8EDCF4B0FEB1C&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"380\" height=\"240\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ the event:<br \/>\nOct. 6 2009 &#8211; The French translator of Balzac, Proust, Flaubert, and others reads from her new translation of Mathias \u00c9nard&#8217;s <em>Zone<\/em> (forthcoming from Open Letter) and takes questions about literary translation. <em>Zone<\/em> has already been called &#8220;The novel of the decade, if not of the century\u201d (Christophe Claro). In short, it is a 517-page, one-sentence novel about a spy, a train ride, a briefcase, and the pervasive violence of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Mandell is one of the great French-to-English translators, and has translated such prominent works as: <em>The Girl with the Golden Eyes<\/em> by Honor\u00e9 de Balzac, <em>The Book to Come<\/em> by Maurice Blanchot, <em>A Simple Heart<\/em> by Gustave Flaubert, <em>The Horla<\/em> by Guy de Maupassant, <em>Listening<\/em> by Jean-Luc Nancy, and <em>The Lemoine Affair<\/em> by Marcel Proust.<\/p>\n<p>(This event is hosted by Open Letter and Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Arts &amp; Sciences. It is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video is now up from our Reading the World Conversation Series event with the acclaimed French-to-English translator Charlotte Mandell. 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