MEMBER BLOG TAG: enrique vila
| Sunday, May 3, 2009 10:46AM | | | | Translation and Its Discontents II | Tags: Paul Auster, Enrique Vila
| | | Saturday afternoon an event featuring novelists Paul Auster and Enrique Vila-Matas took place at the Florence Guild Hall. I was more excited about this event than any other I attended, being a long time fan of Auster (who kindly blurbed my last book of poems) and a more recent fan of Vila-Matas, who I have been reading in the original Spanish.
From the first sentence, the issue of translation was at the fore.
Lago asked each writer how he had discovered the work of the other. Vila-Matas, who writes in Spanish, had read Auster first in French. Auster, who writes in English, had also read Vila-Matas in French. Vila-Matas does not speak English, Auster does not speak Spanish.
A young... | | | | | | | Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:22AM | | | | Translation and Its Discontents | Tags: Francisco Goldman, Siri Hustvedt, Enrique Vila-Matas, A.M. Homes, Daniel Sada, Anagram, Jorge Herralde
| | | At some point last summer, I decided to declare the next 12 months of my life "The Year of Reading in Spanish." Since then I have read only novels and poetry in the Spanish language. Part of this was a sort of lingering feeling of failure at never having developed my reading skills in a language that I can speak with a fair amount of fluency. The other part was that a friend in Buffalo was doing something similar and so it provided us with some new intellectual fodder to discuss over coffee or on our long winter drives out to the Eastman house in Rochester to view foreign films.
The three writers that have with whose work I have been spending the most... | | | | | |
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