As part of the on-going Reading the World Conversation Series (on October 6, 2009), Charlotte Mandell--the French translator of Balzac, Proust, Flaubert, and others--reads from her new translation ...
As part of the on-going Reading the World Conversation Series (on October 6, 2009), Charlotte Mandell--the French translator of Balzac, Proust, Flaubert, and others--reads from her new translation of Mathias Énard's ZONE (forthcoming from Open Letter). Then, joined by E.J. Van Lanen--Editor at Open Letter--she talks and takes questions about literary translation.
ZONE has already been called "The novel of the decade, if not of the century (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.
Charlotte Mandell is one of the great French-to-English translators, and has translated such prominent works as: -The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac -The Book to Come by Maurice Blanchot -A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert -The Horla by Guy de Maupassant -Listening by Jean-Luc Nancy -The Lemoine Affair by Marcel Proust
(This event is hosted by Open Letter and University of Rochester Arts & Sciences. It is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.)
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