Found in translation

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Natasha Wimmer, whose translations of Roberto Bolaño are extraordinary, tells Kurt Andersen about her rules of the road. Plus, the play “Behind the Sheet” helps to expose and reassess J. Marion Sims, a pioneer in gynecology whose advances came at the expense of the slaves on whom he conducted brutal experiments. And Kurt talks with artist Jessica Campbell, who for her first solo exhibit created work almost exclusively out of carpet.

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.0	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.0	This first level of garden.
0:14.4	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.3	I like to have the roasted chicken biscuit.
0:18.0	Very well done.
0:19.1	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.8	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.4	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.7	Studio 360.
0:27.8	With Kurt Anderson.
0:33.2	In the English or the authors of the language English that Borges
0:38.9	amaba, there are a pod of floriduras.
0:42.8	And in the Spanish, no.
0:44.0	In the Spanish, there is a tendency to the flortatura.
0:47.9	But, of course, the Spanish is a new yomer.
0:50.6	Enorme.
0:52.0	That is the great novelist, Roberto Bolaneo in an interview on Chilean television,
0:58.4	talking about Borges and how Spanish is a bigger, more expansive language than English.
1:04.9	He was talking just as he was getting famous in 1999.
1:08.6	I wish I could say that he's here today to talk about his new book,
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