Rediscovering a Forgotten Genius

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Although Kafka revered him and he is widely celebrated in Europe, Robert Walser has only recently begun attracting readers in the United States. After being featured in publications like The New Yorker and Harper’s over the past few years, this literary master has developed a growing following among American readers.

In this Lit&Lunch event, translator Susan Bernofsky offers Bay Area readers a chance to hear her talk about how Walser was rediscovered. A noted translator of internationally acclaimed authors like Yoko Tawada and Hermann Hesse, Bernofsky is an idea guide to the unique writing and stirring thoughts of an author now being hailed—for a second time—as a literary genius.

Bernofsky’s event on Tuesday, February 9, marks the first event of the new year in the Center for the Art of Translation’s 2009-10 Lit&Lunch season. Now in its third year, Lit&Lunch has established a track record of providing a forum where readers can connect with high-profile translators and writers—among them Robert Hass, Edith Grossman, and Ngugi wa’Thiongo—leading San Francisco magazine to name it the “Best Lunchtime Getaway” and SF Weekly to call it the “Best Literary Lunchtime.”

Future events in the 2009-10 Lit&Lunch season will include Alison Anderson, translator of Nobel-winner JMG Le Clezio, as well as the popular Basque author Bernardo Atxaga, who faced years of repression while writing in Franco’s Spain.

The Center announces all of its events on its Facebook page and will provide readers with supplementary and contextual material on its blog, Two Words, in order to help them get the most out of each event in the Lit&Lunch season.

Audio from past events can be heard on the Center’s online audio archive (http://catranslation.org/blog/audio-from-the-center-for-the-art-of-translation/), easily accessible from Two Words (http://catranslation.org/blog/).

• For more on Lit&Lunch and the Center’s programs, contact Scott Esposito at [email protected] (415-205-9145) or see our events webpage: http://catranslation.org/blog/litlunch-2009-2010/
• To follow us on Facebook, see our page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Center-for-the-Art-of-Translation/126946103375
• The Center’s blog, Two Words, is available at: http://catranslation.org/blog/

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