What are we going to read in the summer?
For our July 26 meeting we’ll be
reading best-selling Croatian author Dubravka Ugrešić’s highly acclaimed novel
Fox, and
joined by translator Ellen Elias-Bursać (Open Press Books, 2018).
On August 30 we’ll be discussing
Romanian author Mircea Cărtarescu’s novel
Blinding, Book One, and joined by the
book’s translator Sean Cotter (Archipelago Books, 2013).
Then on September 27 we’ll
explore Book Two of Slovenian author Lojze Kovačič’s wartime trilogy
Newcomers,
translated by
Michael Biggins (Archipelago Books, 2020).
(A snapshot from zoom discussion on Lojze Kovačič’s Book One. May 3, 2020)
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Other books in the English translation that our group has
recently discussed have included
2018 Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s
Primeval and Other Times (from
Polish),
2019 Austrian Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke’s
A Sorrow beyond Dreams (from German),
2009 Nobelist Herta Müller’s (Romania/Germany)
The Land of Green Plums,
a novel by Romanian author Max Blecher and, most recently, on
June 28, Bulgarian prose writer
Georgi Gospodinov’s
Physics of Sorrow, for which the
author’s American translator Angela Rodel was able to join us from Bulgaria as
our featured discussant.
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