{"id":307706,"date":"2018-02-02T19:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T19:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2018\/02\/02\/season-4-of-the-two-month-review-the-physics-of-sorrow\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:06:35","slug":"season-4-of-the-two-month-review-the-physics-of-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2018\/02\/02\/season-4-of-the-two-month-review-the-physics-of-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 4 of the Two Month Review: The Physics of Sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a bit of a break for the holidays and whatnot, we\u2019re BACK<\/span>! Or about to be. Starting on February 15th<\/b>, there will be all new episodes of the Two Month Review<\/em>, this time focuses on The Physics of Sorrow<\/em> by Georgi Gospodinov.<\/p>\n

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Probably the Open Letter title that Tom Roberge likes the best, The Physics of Sorrow<\/em> came out in 2015 and has continuously moved up our list of best-selling titles. It was a finalist for the 2015 PEN<\/span> Literary Award for Translation and won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. It walso was a finalists for both the Strega Europeo and Gregor von Rezzori awards. And won multiple honors in Bulgaria. It\u2019s in it third (?) printing now, and is available from better bookstores everywhere, or from us directly.<\/a> If you use 2MONTH at checkout, you\u2019ll even get 20% off!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a brief description:<\/p>\n

Using the myth of the Minotaur as its organizing image, the narrator of Gospodinov\u2019s long-awaited novel constructs a labyrinth of stories about his family, jumping from era to era and viewpoint to viewpoint, exploring the mindset and trappings of Eastern Europeans. Incredibly moving\u2014such as with the story of his grandfather accidentally being left behind at a mill\u2014and extraordinarily funny\u2014see the section on the awfulness of the question \u201chow are you?\u201d\u2014Physics is a book that you can inhabit, tracing connections, following the narrator down various \u201cside passages,\u201d getting pleasantly lost in the various stories and empathizing with the sorrowful, misunderstood Minotaur at the center of it all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like the work of Dave Eggers, Tom McCarthy, and Dubravka Ugresic, The Physics of Sorrow draws you in with its unique structure, humanitarian concerns, and stunning storytelling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Angela Rodel\u2014who, almost single-handedly has brought Bulgarian literature to English readers\u2014translated this and will definitely be a guest this season. Along with Georgi himself, who is currently in New York City as a Cullman Center fellow.<\/p>\n

And . . . some surprises. Actually, I have a few new wrinkles in mind that may well make this the greatest Two Month Review<\/em> season ever. Stay tuned for details.<\/p>\n

How can you do that? By following Open Letter,<\/a> me,<\/a> and Brian Wood<\/a> on Twitter. Or by joining the Goodreads Group.<\/a><\/p>\n

And here\u2019s the official schedule of what will be covered in each of the episodes:<\/p>\n

February 15: Introduction to Gospodinov
\nFebruary 22: Epigraphy, Prologue, Part I (1-58)
\nMarch 1: Part II (59-72)
\nMarch 8: Part III<\/span> (73-118)
\nMarch 15: Part IV (119-150)
\nMarch 22: Part V (151-178)
\nMarch 29: Part VI (179-200)
\nApril 5: Part VII<\/span> (201-236)
\nApril 12: Part VIII<\/span> (237-283)<\/p>\n

Order your book now! We\u2019ll rush these out so that you have plenty of time to read the first 58 pages before the 22nd . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a bit of a break for the holidays and whatnot, we\u2019re BACK! Or about to be. Starting on February 15th, there will be all new episodes of the Two Month Review, this time focuses on The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov.   Probably the Open Letter title that Tom Roberge likes the best, […]<\/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":[67426],"tags":[66206,6476,36716,60116,1646,66196],"class_list":["post-307706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-two-month-review","tag-brian-wood","tag-chad-post","tag-georgi-gospodinov","tag-physics-of-sorrow","tag-review","tag-two-month-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307706","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=307706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332076,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307706\/revisions\/332076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}