Chekhov's Mistress
Leonard Lopate’s Summer Reading Series!
From the WNYC site:
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).
With guests like Gregory Rabassa, John Banville and James Wood, this is an excellent line-up:
Monday, July 11: Gregory Rabassa joins Leonard 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.”
Here are the future shows:
Monday, July 18: John Banville reflects on the works of J.G. Farrell, best known for his Empire Trilogy: Troubles, Siege of Krishnapu (which won the Booker Prize), and The Singapore Grip.
Monday, July 25: Phillip Lopate discuses the Soviet writer Mikhail Zoshchenko.
Monday, August 1: James Wood pays tribute to the work of Italo Svevo.
Monday, August 8: Hazel Rowley tells us about the nearly forgotten work of Christina Stead—a woman whose writing was compared to James Joyce and Leo Tolstoy during her lifetime.
These all sound great and you can access them via mp3 either through RSS or WWW.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: July 11, 2005
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