Granta Audio: Andrés Neuman
Selected by Granta as a Best of Young Spanish Language Novelist, Andrés Neuman this month makes his first novel-length appearance in English, with Traveller of the Century. He reads from his novel and talks to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about the parallels between translating and loving, the first generation of post-French Revolution feminists, writing nineteenth century characters who smell and have sex and using postmodern techniques to tell an epic love story.
During the four hours they spent alone three times a week, Hans and Sophie alternated between books and bed, bed and books, exploring one another in words and reading one another’s bodies. Thus, inadvertently, they developed a shared language, rewriting what they read, translating one another mutually. The more they worked together, the more similarities they discovered between love and translation, understanding a person and translating a text, retelling a poem in a different language and putting into words what the other was feeling. Both exercises were as happy as they were incomplete – doubts always remained, words that needed changing, missed nuances. They were both aware of the impossibility of achieving transparency as lovers and as translators. Cultural, political, biographical and sexual differences acted as a filter. The more they tried to counter them, the greater the dangers, obstacles, misunderstandings. And yet at the same time the bridges between the languages, between them, became broader and broader.
Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman is available now from Pushkin Press.
You can also read a short story by Andrés Neuman, ‘The Slight Difference Between Leaving and Running Away’, here.
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