{"id":379726,"date":"2008-12-10T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/12\/10\/it-has-a-lot-of-commas-2\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T14:38:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T14:38:32","slug":"it-has-a-lot-of-commas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/12\/10\/it-has-a-lot-of-commas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#34;It has a lot of commas.&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The french novel <em>Zone<\/em> by Mathias \u00c9nard has been receiving some early press for a few reasons.<\/p>\n<p>1. We&#8217;re publishing it (with an English translation by Charlotte Mandell) in spring 2010.<br \/>\n2. It&#8217;s about 500 pages.<br \/>\n3. It&#8217;s about 1 sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> just ran an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/lifestyle\/chi-longest-sentence-1209dec09,0,1187967.story\">article<\/a>, including some helpful references to other long sentences with which you may be familiar. Within the article, Chad helpfully describes this incredible book:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Open Letter Books at the URochester has purchased the rights to the book and expects to publish a translation by Charlotte Mandell in spring 2010, according to Chad Post, the press director.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But is the record-setter gibberish? Not at all, says Post.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s told from inside this guy&#8217;s mind as he takes a train trip,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It has a lot of commas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Intrigued? Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=file_download&#38;id=29\">little excerpt<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The french novel Zone by Mathias \u00c9nard has been receiving some early press for a few reasons. 1. We&#8217;re publishing it (with an English translation by Charlotte Mandell) in spring 2010. 2. It&#8217;s about 500 pages. 3. It&#8217;s about 1 sentence. The Chicago Tribune just ran an article, including some helpful references to other long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1856,17626,4506,16966],"class_list":["post-379726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-enard","tag-njf","tag-zone"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379726","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}