Book of My Life: Lisa Weeda in conversation with Charlotte Remarque
About Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by Rebecca F. Kuang.
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| Date and time | Saturday 25 January 2025 22:30 tot 22:50 uur |
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| Location | Filmhuis - Studio A |
| Price |
All up to 30 years 15,- Regular 35,- Ooievaarspas 15,- DenHaagPas 32,50. |
Writers told us about their favourite book: the book that inspires or touches them, that set their artistic, moral or intellectual compass. In short, the book they would recommend to everyone. Interview: Charlotte Remarque.
Lisa Weeda chose as her favorite Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution, a 2022 novel of speculative fiction by fanatasy novelist Rebecca F. Kuang, who was born in China and raised in the USA. Thematically similar to The Poppy War, Kuang's first book series, the book criticizes British imperialism, capitalism, and the complicity of academia in perpetuating and enabling them. Babel is set in an alternative-reality 1830s England in which Britain's global economic and colonial supremacy are fueled by the use of magical silver bars. Their power comes from capturing what is "lost in translation" between words in different languages that have similar, but not identical, meanings.
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