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La Traducción del Mundo: Las Conferencias Weidenfeld 2022 / Interpreting the World: The Weidenfeld Lectures 2022Cuatro textos magistrales sobre el poder de la ficcin para comprender el mundo que habitamos Uno de los escritores ms grandes del mundo. Andrea Bajani, La Repubblica Un escritor superdotado []. Uno de los escritores mayores del mundo hispnico. Thierry Clermont, Le Figaro El deber y la tarea de un escritor son los de un traductor, escribe Marcel Proust en El tiempo recobrado. Pero no se trata de traducir un texto: Proust se refiere a traducir la vida.
Cuatro textos magistrales sobre el poder de la ficción para comprender el mundo que habitamos - «Uno de los escritores más grandes del mundo». -Andrea Bajani, La Repubblica «Un escritor superdotado [...]. Uno de los escritores mayores del mundo hispánico». -Thierry Clermont, Le Figaro«El deber y la tarea de un escritor son los de un traductor», escribe Marcel Proust en El tiempo recobrado. Pero no se trata de traducir un texto: Proust se refiere a traducir la vida. Durante octubre y noviembre de 2022, Juan Gabriel Vásquez fue invitado por la Universidad de Oxford a dictar las conferencias de la prestigiosa cátedra Weidenfeld de Literatura Europea Comparada, en la que antes participaron autores de la talla de Mario Vargas Llosa, George Steiner, Umberto Eco, Javier Cercas y Ali Smith. En esas cuatro ponencias, aquí reunidas, Vásquez se pregunta si hay en la ficción literaria una manera de comprender la vida que no pueda encontrarse en ningún otro espacio. ¿Es la literatura el lugar donde el mundo es traducido, interpretado e iluminado? Acaso la ficción tenga una capacidad única para dilucidar las complejidades de la experiencia humana --el misterio de cada vida, nuestro vínculo con el pasado, la tensa relación que mantenemos con el universo delo político-- y transformar esa interpretación en conocimiento. Estos textos nos piden que redefinamos los usos de la ficción, nuestra comprensión de sus mecanismos y las razones por las cuales, en nuestra época actual, es probablemente más indispensable que nunca. Vásquez demuestra con estas reflexiones su gran estatura intelectual y el dominio de su oficio, que lo llevaron a ser conferenciante y escritor residente en las aulas de Oxford y que lo han hecho merecedor de premios tan importantes como el International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, el Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger y el Premio Real Academia Española, entre otros. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Four masterful texts about the power of fiction for understanding the world we live in.
"One of the world's greatest writers." -Andrea Bajani, La Repubblica "An extraordinarily gifted writer [...]. One of the leading authors in Hispanic literature." -Thierry Clermont, Le Figaro "The task and the duty of a writer are those of an interpreter," Marcel Proust wrote in In Search of Lost Time. But Proust wasn't referring to texts; rather, he meant interpreting life. In October and November 2022, the British Comparative Literature Association invited Juan Gabriel Vásquez to lead its prestigious Weidenfeld Lecture Series at Oxford University, joining the ranks of such luminaries as Mario Vargas Llosa, George Steiner, Umberto Eco, Javier Cercas and Ali Smith. In the four lectures compiled here, Vásquez asks whether literary fiction offers an understanding of life that can't be found elsewhere. Is literature the place where we translate, interpret and illuminate the world? Fiction may be uniquely able to shed light on the complexities of the human experience - the mystery of each life, our links to the past, our tense relationship with the political universe - and transform that interpretation into knowledge. These lectures ask us to redefine the uses of fiction and how we understand what it does, arguing that, in our present time, it may be more indispensable than ever. In these reflections, Vásquez demonstrates his formidable intellectual stature and command of his profession. He is a resident author and lecturer at Oxford and the winner of such prestigious awards as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger and the Premio Real Academia Española.
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Format: Paperback
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Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2018
★★★★★ 4
A Book For Audio
Format: Audiobook
The Art of Storytelling from Parents to Professionals is the first book that I can be confident in saying is better as an audio version than it would be in a paper or Kindle form because you can here the verbal inflections and the storytellers can change character, voice much easier than the printed word might. It also captures the listeners attention as the author herself can connect in a lot more personal and intimate way.
My concern is while I can understand what the author is getting at, I am not aspiring to be an oral performance style storyteller and there was not enough of a reach out from the world of oral storytelling to the written story. I mean how many of us are going to get up on stage and tell stories? I guess you can take the skills from one realm and use them elsewhere, but the connection may not be made so easily.
This was an audiobook that I had a lot of fun with, even if I didn’t quite get what I was hoping for from it.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2020
★★★★★ 5
Great Overview of the Art of Storytelling
Format: Audiobook
I chanced on this as an Audible "freebie" to keep on the list for when I was out of credits. Well, it's excellent, and well worth the listen. And excellent survey of the topic spanning topics of performance (preparing, voice, body language, projection), various aspects of framing (culture, age, ethnicity, audience size), story structure and so on
This point is for Hannah B. Harvey, if perchance she reads tese reviews. One point of modern storytelling and writing that is not brought out in your lectures, is that some of the best villain/antagonists are actually the heroes/protagonists of their own stories. This is tangentially alluded to in talking about story viewpoints, but not to the extent that it can be an entirely new story, as Wicked and Maleificent turned The Wizard of Oz and Sleeping Beauty on their heads. And even in the 1960's, many a Bond 007 villain was trying to create what they imagined to be a better world. It's useful to consider in storytelling, as far too many people have forgotten/fail to see the fundamental moral ambiguities of life, and I suspect that goes a long way to explaining the extreme partisanship we see in the world today.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2023
★★★★★ 3
Sadly, I found the tips and the examples in this lecture to be very simplistic and uninspiring.
Format: Audiobook
I expected a professional storyteller to be able to keep my interest but I found the presentation to be quite boring. I got nothing out of it that I didn’t already know from just being an avid reader. It felt like a high school lecture. Sigh!!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2019
★★★★★ 5
Great course on how to improve your storytelling abilities
Format: Audiobook
Storytelling is a great way to get a point across, and most of us digest information through stories. But when it comes time to tell a story, most of us don't have the skills to make the story engaging or impactful. That's where this course on storytelling comes in. You'll get good pointers on vocabulary, body language, tone, along with deeper pointers about how to shape the view of the story and how to refine its characters. It's all very detailed but it's all very interesting and well worth it. This course will help you see how useful storytelling can be in your personal and professional life, especially if you're in a field where you have to do a lot of public speaking.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2021
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