One Book, Five Writers: Translating Jaguars' Tomb

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Angélica Gorodischer’s novel "Jaguars’ Tomb" (Tumba de jaguares) is made up of three linked sections, each credited to a different fictional author; the protagonist of one section becomes the author of the next. Gorodischer’s novel is both an intriguing puzzle and a meditation on how to write about, or through, violence, injustice and loss. The novel plays with the repetitive possibilities of words and images, and raises questions about representation and writing, about whether art can offer refuge or resolution, and about the extent to which a writer’s authority must derive from experience rather than imagination.

Join Amalia Gladhart as she discusses Angélica Gorodischer work(s). Gladhart's translation of "Jaguars’ Tomb," supported by a Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, was awarded the 2022 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. She is professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications (OWNER)

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