Summer Reading Series: Machado de Assis
Monday, July 11, 2005
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Summer Reading Series
This July and August, Leonard Lopate explores underappreciated and forgotten works of great literature as part of a special Summer Reading Series. He'll look at why some authors are little-known in America, even though they're widely respected in other parts of the world, and at why certain books fall in and out of fashion (and print).
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In this week’s edition of our Summer Reading Series on underappreciated literature, Gregory Rabassa joins me for a look at the author Machado de Assis. Born in 1839 in Rio de Janiero, he’s widely considered to be the father of Brazilian literature. Mr. Rabassa, who is probably best-known for his translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch, claims that it wasn’t until he worked on two of Machado de Assis’s novels that he felt “fulfillment as a translator.”
Events:
Gregory Rabassa will talk and read from his memoir, If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, on:
Wednesday, July 13th at 6pm
Consulate General of Brazil
1185 Avenue of the Americas (between 46th and 47th Streets)
21st Floor
Music: Soundtrack to Hanging Up, music by David Hirschfelder: “Conference Call”
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