Tag: WITMonth19
Book Excerpts! KLOTSVOG and THE MAN WHO COULDN'T DIE
"Since its launch, the series has already enhanced the scope of Russian literary texts available in English, and it promises significantly more to come, with planned titles ranging from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, by both new and established translators." ~Katherine Bowers, Translation and...
Q&A: Marian Schwartz on The Man Who Couldn't Die
"Darkly sardonic . . . . oddly timely, for there are all sorts of understated hints about voter fraud, graft, payoffs, and the endless promises of politicians who have no intention of keeping them. It is also deftly constructed, portraying...
Why A Novel About Post-War Trauma—Filled With Difficult Personalities—Makes a Great Beach Read
"Klotsvog is a story of everyday darkness told by the ultimate unreliable narrator… As Maya vibrates on a frequency between ruthless self-determination and charming narcissism, Klotsvog infects its audience with a compulsion to determine which dominates." ~Foreword Reviews August is...
Book Giveaway! Translated Works of Russian Literature
Women in translation Month is coming to a close. And, so far, we've delved into the poetry of women from East Asia and Russia, time-traveled to Japan's Heian court, and engrossed ourselves in the gossip of Shanghai. This week, we're...
Weekend Reading List: Sinophone Fiction in Translation
Week three of Women in Translation month is coming to a close, but don't fret. We've got a list to keep you reading through the weekend. China's literary tradition includes many engaging works from contemporary female writers. Here a few...
Exploring Shanghai Gossip Through Literature
"Cast with ordinary people and steeped in lyrical simplicity, Howard Goldblatt's superb translation of Fu Ping commands a disarmingly quiet beauty. It is as if Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg had miraculously resurfaced, not in the cornfields of Ohio but in the...
Book Excerpt! Fu Ping
 "Deftly translated by Howard Goldblatt, this love song to Shanghai continues Wang Anyi's evocation of women's struggles for individuality and sensual freedom, and further establishes her as one of the world's great writers." ~Douglas Unger, author of Leaving the...
Q&A: Howard Goldblatt on Translating Literary Works and the Fiction of Wang Anyi
"Wang Anyi is one of the most critically acclaimed writers in the Chinese-speaking world." ~Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review Today's Women in Translation Month featured title is Wang Anyi's Fu Ping, translated by Howard Goldblatt. Fu Ping follows...
Book Giveaway! Fu Ping: A Novel
Book Excerpts: Translations From Heian-Era Japan
Heian-era Japan saw a flowering of literature, especially at the imperial court. Women wrote diaries, essays, poems, romances, and novels that circulated widely during and after the authors' lives. To honor these writers, we're closing the second week of Women...
Book Excerpt! The Pillow Bookfrom The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century
"The focused ramble of the traditional Japanese essay format called zuihitsu (literally, 'following the brush') has appealed to writers of both genders, all ages, and every class in Japanese society. Highly personal, these essays contain dollops of philosophy, odd anecdotes,...
The Marvels of the Sarashina Diary
"As the author herself says of Mount Fuji, this unique work 'looks like nothing else in the world.'" ~David Damrosch, Harvard University This week, we've been featuring works from Heian-era Japan, a period that produced an enormous amount of...