CoDex 1962: Pages 1-57

2019-05-02

This is a special episode of the Two Month Review featuring Chad's "World Literature & Translation" class, who read CoDex 1962 (and ten other contemporary works in translation) this semester. They talk with Chad and Brian about interpretation and translation, how they judge whether a translation is good or bad, Werner Herzog and Lars von Trier, the structure of the narration in the first section of CoDex 1962, British punctuation, Chad's no-longer-so-secret project, Delino Deshields, and more. ...

This is a special episode of the Two Month Review featuring Chad's "World Literature & Translation" class, who read CoDex 1962 (and ten other contemporary works in translation) this semester. They talk with Chad and Brian about interpretation and translation, how they judge whether a translation is good or bad, Werner Herzog and Lars von Trier, the structure of the narration in the first section of CoDex 1962, British punctuation, Chad's no-longer-so-secret project, Delino Deshields, and more.

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The next episode will focus on pages 58-109 (chapters 7-11 of "Thine Eyes Did See My Substance: A Love Story"). The complete schedule can be found here.

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