December 22nd, 2009 / 1:42 am
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Nice thread on the Dalkey Archive Facebook, featuring interviews with authors from their Best European Fiction 2010: Julian Gough, “Any decent writer is playing with nuances, rhythms, echoes, soundstuff that will evaporate in any literal translation. I like a lot of layers. Puns, resonances, double-meanings, Tipperaryisms, things my mum says at Christmas. Often the point of the sentence hasn’t anything to do with its literal meaning at all.”

4 Comments

  1. December 22nd, 2009 / 7:01 am CB—

      Ornela Vorpsi is ja ja ja ja.

  2. December 22nd, 2009 / 3:01 am CB—

      Ornela Vorpsi is ja ja ja ja.

  3. December 22nd, 2009 / 1:45 pm Sean—

      “Often the point of the sentence hasn’t anything to do with its literal meaning at all.”

      This quote be entering my syllabi stat.

  4. December 22nd, 2009 / 9:45 am Sean—

      “Often the point of the sentence hasn’t anything to do with its literal meaning at all.”

      This quote be entering my syllabi stat.