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Jon Fosse Q & A
At The New Yorker Merve Emre has a Q & A with the author, in Jon Fosse's Search for Peace.
Lots of interesting stuff here -- including the news that Fosse is translating Gerald Murnane's The Plains into Norwegian (and that he has previously translated Kafka and Trakl).
I fully agree with Emre's wish, that: "more novelists would work as translators" -- but, of course, many of them do, outside the English-speaking world. (In the US/UK ... not so much.) In any case it's good to see that Fosse does this as well -- and that he recognizes:
At The New Yorker Merve Emre has a Q & A with the author, in Jon Fosse's Search for Peace.
Lots of interesting stuff here -- including the news that Fosse is translating Gerald Murnane's The Plains into Norwegian (and that he has previously translated Kafka and Trakl).
I fully agree with Emre's wish, that: "more novelists would work as translators" -- but, of course, many of them do, outside the English-speaking world. (In the US/UK ... not so much.) In any case it's good to see that Fosse does this as well -- and that he recognizes:
I really like to translate. It's like reading, in a way, but you get very deep. It's very deep reading.Embarrassingly, I haven't gotten to his Septology yet (I don't have the full set ...), but several Fosse-works are under review at the complete review, e.g. Scenes from a Childhood.