La mira de Chris Andrews
Gracias al blog "Puente aéreo" me entero de estas declaraciones de Chris Andrews, el primer traductor de Roberto Bolaño al inglés y traductor también de César Aira, en la que se refiere al buen momento de la literatura latinoamericana y cita algunos nombres de autores que está traduciendo, o de escritores a los que les sigue la pista.
Dice Andrews: "I can only give very subjective opinions about that. There are two recent novels that I think are wonderful, and I would like to see them come across the translation barrier. First Rodrigo Rey Rosa's La Orilla Africana (The African Shore), about a Colombian adrift in Marrakech. Rey Rosa is a Guatemalan writer, and some of his books have been published in English: the first books of stories were translated by Paul Bowles, and recently New Directions brought out The Good Cripple, translated by Esther Allen. He's a master of ellipsis, and has found a form--the short novel in short chapters--that maximizes his power to disturb and intrigue. The other novel is El Testigo (The Witness) by Juan Villoro, an excellent Mexican writer. It's a big, complex book about the state of the Mexican nation after the end of the PRI's long reign. I recently translated a chapter of it for the journal Common Knowledge.
And there are lots and lots of others . . . a book I just read that impressed me was Antonio José Ponte's La Fiesta Vigilada (Party Under Surveillance), which is a mixture of essay and autobiography, and meditates elegantly on surveillance, censorship and culture in Cuba.
Each country in Latin America has its literary culture and its interesting writers, but sometimes it seems there is a limit to the number that can come to be well known internationally, as if Mario Vargas Llosa had just about used up the quota for Peru, say.
It seems to me that interesting things are happening in Argentina: bitter polemics, but also lots of good writing, by novelists like Alan Pauls, Guillermo Martínez, Daniel Guebel and Pedro Mairal.
Etiquetas: alan pauls, antonio jose ponte, eeuu, guillermo martinez, juan villoro, mairal, NOTICIA, rey rosas, roberto bolaño
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