As a reminder of what entertaining, inoffensive satire constitutes, pick up a copy of Bestseller by Georgian trailblazer, Beka Adamashvili, deftly translated by Tamar Japaridze, published by Dedalus Books.
A blogger, screenwriter and creative director at an advertising company, Adamashvili’s mischievous sense of humor and deep knowledge of world literature, combined with marketing nous, sharpen his pen. Multiple allusions from literary classics are woven into his postmodern narrative as he sends up digimodernism and the shallowness of the desire for fame. Dante, Conan Doyle, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell and other literary heavyweights rebel against the author. Bestseller pokes fun at literary pretentiousness, humbug and bookish aspirations with wit and verve.
Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Rupert Such
Abdourahman Waberi in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet
Found in Translation | Fatima Daas discusses literary sensation, The Last One (French & English)
Found in Translation | Faïza Guène (author) & Sarah Ardizzone (translator) on Men Don’t Cry
Interview with Natasha Lehrer, translator of Consent by Vanessa Springora
Bridging the Divide #14 | Lucy Popescu interviews Goran Vojnović, Olivia Hellewell
Bridging the Divide #13 | Lucy Popescu & Natasha Lehrer discuss Nathalie Leger’s The White Dress
Bridging the Divide #12 | Georgia de Chamberet interviews publisher Philip Gywn Jones
Bridging the Divide #11 | Lucy Popescu interviews Tommy Wieringa and his translator Sam Garrett
Bridging the Divide #10 | Interview (en français): Tahar Ben Jelloun explique le terrorisme
Bridging the Divide #10 | Interview: Tahar Ben Jelloun, On Terrorism
Bridging the Divide #9 Guest interview | Christopher MacLehose, founder of MacLehose Press
Bridging the Divide #8 | Lars Mytting (author) Deborah Dawkin (Translator) The Bell in the Lake
Bridging the Divide #7 | Lucy Popescu (Journalist) Lulu Norman (translator) on Aziz Binebine
Bridging the Divide #6 | Interview : Michael Schmidt, Carcanet Press
Bridging the Divide #5 | Interview : James Womack, translator
Bridging the Divide #4 | Interview: Anne Meadows (Granta) Jamie Lee Searle (translator)
Bridging the Divide #3 | Interview: Rose (Eland) Robyn Marsack (translator)
Bridging the Divide #2 | Interview : Adam Freudenheim, Pushkin Press
Bridging the Divide #1 | Interview : J.S. Margot, author
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