joao reis – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:39:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 Releasing Today: THE TRANSLATOR’S BRIDE by João Reis /College/translation/threepercent/2019/08/20/releasing-today-the-translators-bride-by-joao-reis/ /College/translation/threepercent/2019/08/20/releasing-today-the-translators-bride-by-joao-reis/#respond Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:00:09 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=424392

 

 

 

ĴýA neurotic little gem: fast, fun, frenzied, and feisty.Ĵý
ĴýJeremy Garber, Powell’s

 

 

 

 

A humorous attempt to get one’s life back in order that’s part Thomas Bernhard, part Max Frisch
At the start of , the Translator’s bride has left him. But if he can only find a way to buy a small house, maybe he can win her back . . . These are the obsessive thoughts that pervade the Translator’s mind as he walks around an unnamed city in 1920, trying to figure out how to put his life back together. His employers arenĴýt paying him, heĴýs trying to survive a womanĴýs unwanted advances, and heĴýs trying to make the best of his desperate living conditions. All while he struggles with his own mind and angry and psychotic ideas, filled with longing and melancholy. Darkly funny, filled with acidic observations and told with a frenetic pace, The TranslatorĴýs Bride is an incredible rideĴýwhether youĴýre a translator or not!
Watch João Reis talk about The Translator’s Bride and the process of translating his own work on this episode of the .
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Praise for The Translator’s Bride
ĴýBoth surprising and hilarious.Ĵý
ĴýPublishers Weekly

ĴýThe circuitous absorption of The Translator’s Bride is sustained by its novella-like structure and dark, gleaming humor. . . . [Its] language is beautiful, mordant, and tragic.Ĵý
ĴýMeg Nola, Foreword Reviews

ĴýJoão ReisĴý great success in The TranslatorĴýs Bride is to convince his audience that they are reading a work written at modernismĴýs mid-twentieth-century zenith . . . pulling us out of our own times and holding us in the era of UlyssesԻMrs Dalloway.Ĵý
ĴýWest Camel, European Literature Network 

ĴýThe Translator’s Bride is a great little book that brings a breath of fresh air to today’s moment in Portuguese literature, asserting itself as an excellent novel not to be forgotten.Ĵý
ĴýJorge Navarro, O Tempo Entre Os Meus Livros

ĴýJoão Reis . . . is a great connoisseur of literary comedy, in a subtle way in which everything is so natural, but simultaneously rude, with the cruel ways in which various characters are depicted, thus creating a blackly comic web that weaves together the world of the book.Ĵý
ĴýNelson Zagalo, Virtual Illusion

João Reis, born in 1985, is a Portuguese writer and a literary translator of Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic). He studied philosophy and has lived in Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Reis’s work has already been compared to that of Hamsun and Kafka, and represents a literary style unseen in contemporary Portuguese writing. His latest novel, A Devastação do Silêncio, is longlisted for the Prémio Oceanos.
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