{"id":3940,"date":"2010-06-30T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2010-06-30T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T20:53:19","slug":"archipelagos-2010-south-african-world-cup-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/archipelagos-2010-south-african-world-cup-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Archipelago's 2010 South African World Cup Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite New York presses is Archipelago Books<\/strong><\/a>, the most serious independent press publishing translations in this country right now. With the soccer world cup going on, Archipelago is doing a promotion<\/a> \u2014 & believe you me, there is no better way to get you through some of the games or through the waiting for the next round, than by reading one or the other of their books. Thus the lovely offer below:<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"In honor of the 2010 South African World Cup, we are offering two special deals\u2014a set of nine Archipelago titles by authors from the host and quarterfinal-qualifying countries for only $90, or three of the nine titles of your choice for $35!<\/p>\n

In the words of Aleksander Hemon, writing in The New Republic’s excellent World Cup blog, “The thing that bothers me most about the Americans-not-accepting-soccer story is the underlying notion that if the majority of Americans have no interest in soccer, then Americans have no interest in soccer. By the same logic, Americans have no interest in reading novels, as survey upon survey shows that the majority of Americans prefer television to reading. I don’t know the numbers, but I would venture to guess that the number of Americans reading literary fiction is in the neighborhood of the number of Americans interested in soccer.”<\/p>\n

We would even venture to guess that there might be some cross-pollination between the two groups. Soccer fans have a natural love for drama, are notoriously patient, and are personally, if not politically, committed to their teams. In other words, imbued with the qualities that also mark lovers of great literature.<\/p>\n

Support your favorite teams\u2014and international literature in translation\u2014by purchasing a World Cup set. (In an effort to eschew favoritism, the books are listed below in alphabetical order by country.)
\n\"\"ARGENTINA
\nAutonauts of the Cosmoroute<\/a>
\nby Julio Cort\u00e1zar and Carol Dunlop
\ntranslated from the Spanish by Anne McLean<\/p>\n

“Idols invite respect, admiration, affection, and, of course, great envy. Cort\u00e1zar inspired all of these feelings as very few writers can, but he inspired, above all, an emotion much rarer: devotion. he was, perhaps without trying, the Argentine who made the world love him.” \u2014Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez
\n$20 paperback
\nISBN 9780979333002<\/p>\n

B\"\"RAZIL
\nEducation by Stone<\/a>
\nby Jo\u00e3o Cabral de Melo Neto
\ntranslated from the Portugese by Richard Zenith<\/p>\n

“Jo\u00e3o Cabral de Melo Neto is one of Brazil’s most acclaimed poets . . . Marked by a captivating use of simple language.” \u2014The New York Times Book Review<\/p>\n

$16 paperback
\nISBN 9780974968018<\/p>\n

\"\"GERMANY
\nLenz<\/a>
\nby Georg B\u00fcchner
\ntranslated from the German by Richard Sieburth<\/p>\n

“A great work of art. . . . Works that change how literature is written are few and far between . . . Lenz is one of them. . . . Without B\u00fcchner, fiction as we know it would be unthinkable.” \u2014The Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n

$14 paperback
\nISBN 9780974968025<\/p>\n

\"\"The Novices of Sais<\/a>
\nby Novalis
\nwith illustrations by Paul Klee
\ntranslated from the German by Ralph Manheim<\/p>\n

“The Novices of Sais is a kaleidoscope of interpretations, visions and allegories of nature . . . a transfiguration of the commonplace, giving ‘the ordinary a mysterious countenance, the known the dignity of the unknown.'” \u2014The Nation<\/p>\n

$18 paperback
\nISBN 9780974968056<\/p>\n

\"\"Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist<\/a>
\ntranslated from the German by Peter Wortsman<\/p>\n

“Kleist’s narrative language is something completely unique. It is not enough to read it as historical\u2014even in his day nobody wrote as he did. . . . An impetus squeezed out with iron, absolutely un-lyrical detachment brings forth tangled, knotted, overloaded sentences painfully soldered together . . . and driven by a breathless tempo.” \u2014Thomas Mann<\/p>\n

$15 paperback
\nISBN 9780981955728<\/p>\n

\"\"THE NETHERLANDS
\nThe Twin<\/a>
\nby Gerbrand Bakker
\ntranslated from the Dutch by David Colmer<\/p>\n

Winner of the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Award
\nAn NPR pick for Best Foreign Fiction of the Year
\nA Powell’s Indispensable Pick
\nA School Library Journal Best Adult Book for High School Students<\/p>\n

“A novel of restrained tenderness and laconic humor.” \u2014J. M. Coetzee<\/p>\n

$16 paperback
\nISBN 9781935744047<\/p>\n

\"\"SPAIN
\nPlants Don’t Drink Coffee<\/a>
\nby Unai Elorriaga
\nTranslated from the Basque by Amaia Gabantxo<\/p>\n

“Both comical and moving. . . . All three characters are so quirky and endearing. . . . A smartly written tale of a family of nutballs trying to sort things out.” \u2014Bookslut<\/p>\n

$16 paperback
\nISBN 9780977857685<\/p>\n

host country SOUTH AFRICA<\/p>\n

\"\"Mafeking Road<\/a>
\nby Herman Charles Bosman<\/p>\n

“A revelation. . . . Tightly written and beautiful. . . . [These stories] have at their heart a concern for human connection and communication that almost inevitably brings Hemingway to mind.” \u2014The L Magazine<\/p>\n

$15 paperback
\nISBN 9780979333064<\/p>\n

\"\"Voice Over<\/a>
\nby Breyten Breytenbach
\na nomadic conversation with Mahmoud Darwish<\/p>\n

“Breytenbach’s passionate desire to know and serve the truth, whatever it may be and whomever it might offend, is deeply admirable.” \u2014The Washington Post<\/p>\n

$9 paperback
\nISBN 9780981955759<\/p>\n

P. S.\u2014Archipelago Books does not (yet) publish works from all of the quarterfinal-qualifying countries, but heartily recommends Mohammed Naseehu Ali’s The Prophet of Zongo Street (Ghana), Augusto Roa Bastos’s I the Supreme (Paraguay), and Juan Carlos Onetti’s A Brief Life (Uruguay).<\/p>\n

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