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Nina Schuyler
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Influences
So many! Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee, Melanie Rae Thon
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Member Since
February 2011
The Rumpus Interview
Thrilled! Thank you, The Rumpus and Christine Sneed, for the fabulous questions about In This Ravishing World.
In This Ravishing World " is stylistically innovative in ways that I continue to think about weeks after finishing it... it's an important book."-- Christine Sneed
For the full interview:
https://therumpus.net/2024/08/07/nina... Read more of this blog post »
In This Ravishing World " is stylistically innovative in ways that I continue to think about weeks after finishing it... it's an important book."-- Christine Sneed
For the full interview:
https://therumpus.net/2024/08/07/nina... Read more of this blog post »
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“Hanne is stretched out on her back. Faces hover in a circle above her. A boy with big blue eyes. A woman whose front teeth rest on her lower lip. An old Chinese woman wearing all gray, her
face expressionless, as if she’s seen this before, and much worse. Suddenly a man’s face zooms toward her. Beads of sweat on his upper lip. Dark sideburns. Dark nose hairs. His eyes are close-set,
unnervingly so. “Don’t move,” he says, his breath reeking of garlic and cigarette smoke.
An imperative. She tries to sit up, and when she can’t, attempts to understand why she’s on the floor. This is not
where she should be. She knows that. What is she doing here? “She’s bleeding . . . Hurt. A woman.” But nothing hurts. Liquid streams from her nose, down her cheek, pools into her ear. The circle of faces still above her. But she can’t right herself. The
world is tilting. The man with sideburns is squatting beside her.
What does he want? He’s saying something to her. Telling her
something, his horrible breath assaulting her. Get back. She can’t
get her mouth to shout, Move back! She hunts for that perfect moment again, the water, her children when they were young, Hiro, but it is gone.”
―
face expressionless, as if she’s seen this before, and much worse. Suddenly a man’s face zooms toward her. Beads of sweat on his upper lip. Dark sideburns. Dark nose hairs. His eyes are close-set,
unnervingly so. “Don’t move,” he says, his breath reeking of garlic and cigarette smoke.
An imperative. She tries to sit up, and when she can’t, attempts to understand why she’s on the floor. This is not
where she should be. She knows that. What is she doing here? “She’s bleeding . . . Hurt. A woman.” But nothing hurts. Liquid streams from her nose, down her cheek, pools into her ear. The circle of faces still above her. But she can’t right herself. The
world is tilting. The man with sideburns is squatting beside her.
What does he want? He’s saying something to her. Telling her
something, his horrible breath assaulting her. Get back. She can’t
get her mouth to shout, Move back! She hunts for that perfect moment again, the water, her children when they were young, Hiro, but it is gone.”
―
“Every situation, every person has a melody playing, even if you can’t hear it.”
― The Translator
― The Translator
“In Latin, translate comes from translatus, to carry over, to carry across. Something written in language A is carried over into language B. I always imagine a bridge in which language A is traveling over to meet B. Sometimes when I’m translating, the languages blend together in my mind, and when I hear this, what gets carried over isn’t a grandiose idea. The songs merge together and what is brought forth is a new song. Such stunning and mysterious harmony. That probably sounds silly, but it’s the closest I’ve come to believing in something more, something other than this, something of awe that humbles me. Not a god, but a sound.”
― The Translator
― The Translator
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“Hanne is stretched out on her back. Faces hover in a circle above her. A boy with big blue eyes. A woman whose front teeth rest on her lower lip. An old Chinese woman wearing all gray, her
face expressionless, as if she’s seen this before, and much worse. Suddenly a man’s face zooms toward her. Beads of sweat on his upper lip. Dark sideburns. Dark nose hairs. His eyes are close-set,
unnervingly so. “Don’t move,” he says, his breath reeking of garlic and cigarette smoke.
An imperative. She tries to sit up, and when she can’t, attempts to understand why she’s on the floor. This is not
where she should be. She knows that. What is she doing here? “She’s bleeding . . . Hurt. A woman.” But nothing hurts. Liquid streams from her nose, down her cheek, pools into her ear. The circle of faces still above her. But she can’t right herself. The
world is tilting. The man with sideburns is squatting beside her.
What does he want? He’s saying something to her. Telling her
something, his horrible breath assaulting her. Get back. She can’t
get her mouth to shout, Move back! She hunts for that perfect moment again, the water, her children when they were young, Hiro, but it is gone.”
―
face expressionless, as if she’s seen this before, and much worse. Suddenly a man’s face zooms toward her. Beads of sweat on his upper lip. Dark sideburns. Dark nose hairs. His eyes are close-set,
unnervingly so. “Don’t move,” he says, his breath reeking of garlic and cigarette smoke.
An imperative. She tries to sit up, and when she can’t, attempts to understand why she’s on the floor. This is not
where she should be. She knows that. What is she doing here? “She’s bleeding . . . Hurt. A woman.” But nothing hurts. Liquid streams from her nose, down her cheek, pools into her ear. The circle of faces still above her. But she can’t right herself. The
world is tilting. The man with sideburns is squatting beside her.
What does he want? He’s saying something to her. Telling her
something, his horrible breath assaulting her. Get back. She can’t
get her mouth to shout, Move back! She hunts for that perfect moment again, the water, her children when they were young, Hiro, but it is gone.”
―
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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