{"id":296866,"date":"2014-03-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/03\/13\/latest-review-commentary-by-marcelle-sauvageot\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:40","slug":"latest-review-commentary-by-marcelle-sauvageot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/03\/13\/latest-review-commentary-by-marcelle-sauvageot\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "Commentary" by Marcelle Sauvageot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews<\/a> section is by Peter Biello on Commentary<\/em> by Marcelle Sauvageot, translated by Anna Moschovakis (and introduction from Jennifer Moxley), published by Ugly Duckling Presse.<\/p>\n

Peter not only runs the Burlington Writers Workshop<\/a>, but is also a friend to Open Letter\u2014we had the pleasure of meeting him in person at AWP<\/span> a couple weeks ago, and saddle him up with some great books. <\/p>\n

Commentary<\/em>, as many of you will know, is one of the 25 books that made the 2014 BTBA<\/span> longlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the beginning of Peter’s review:<\/p>\n

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Commentary<\/em> is a book that defies simple categorization. Marcelle Sauvageot\u2019s prose lives in the world of novel, memoir, and philosophical monologue as the narrator, a woman recuperating in a sanatorium, muses on the nature of love and examines her own crushed heart. Originally published in French under the title Commentaire<\/em> in 1933, the book remains relevant precisely because the behavior of the man to whom these epistolary responses are addressed seems shockingly familiar.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Commentary<\/em> is a deconstruction of an insensitive and condescending break-up letter that is sent to the narrator when she is spending time in a sanatorium. Her lover, who is only referred to as \u201cBaby,\u201d is in Paris, where he has made plans to marry another woman. \u201cI am getting married . . . Our friendship remains . . .\u201d his letter states, and from here, the narrator dives into the sadness and anger it provokes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the rest of the review, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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