{"id":105923,"date":"2016-12-19T09:08:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=105923"},"modified":"2016-12-19T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T15:43:49","slug":"an-historic-minivan-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/19\/an-historic-minivan-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"An Historic Minivan, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105924\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/minivan_02_1500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105924\" class=\"wp-image-105924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/minivan_02_1500.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/minivan_02_1500.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/minivan_02_1500-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/minivan_02_1500-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/minivan_02_1500-1024x791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May we remember it always.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>In an age of rising income inequality, there\u2019s no real justification for coziness. To sit fireside in a pair of Smartwool socks is to reek of privilege\u2014not even the most exquisite cup of hot cocoa can cover the smell. But fear not: this is why we have the Danes. Their culture comes with a word, <em>hygge<\/em>, whose venerable, old-world connotations of comfortable conviviality were just waiting to be bankrupted by American consumer culture. It\u2019s okay to relax if the Scandinavians are doing it! As Anna Altman explains, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/the-year-of-hygge-the-danish-obsession-with-getting-cozy?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">At least six books about\u00a0<em>hygge\u00a0<\/em>were published in the United States this year, with more to come in 2017<\/a> \u2026 Helen Russell, a British journalist who wrote <em>The Year of Living Danishly<\/em>, defines the term as \u2018taking pleasure in the presence of gentle, soothing things,\u2019 like a freshly brewed cup of coffee and cashmere socks \u2026 The most striking thing about\u00a0<em>hygge<\/em>, though, might be how its proponents tend to take prosperity for granted. All the encouragements toward superior handicrafts and Scandinavian design, the accounts of daily fireside gatherings and freshly baked pastries assume a certain level of material wealth and an abundance of leisure time. As a life philosophy,\u00a0<em>hygge<\/em>\u00a0is unabashedly bourgeois \u2026 When transferred to the United States, the kind of understated luxury that Danes consider a shared national trait starts to seem like little more than a symbol of economic status\u2014the very thing that Scandinavian countries have sought to jettison.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When it debuted in 1983, Chrysler\u2019s minivan was so cutting edge that the<em>\u00a0New York Times <\/em>insisted on dropping a hyphen between <em>mini <\/em>and <em>van<\/em>. (Nothing dampens the spirit of neologism quite like a\u00a0copy department.) Back then, the original minivan\u2014the urtext for the Dodge Caravan and a crucial component in the founding myth of soccer moms\u2014was heralded as \u201cone of the hot cars coming out of Detroit.\u201d Today, it\u2019s on the National Historic Vehicle Register. Nick Kurczewski writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/15\/business\/driving-down-memory-lane-in-the-original-minivan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brandt Rosenbusch, an archives manager for more than 300 historic vehicles owned by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, is not shy about extolling the first minivan\u2019s significance<\/a>: \u2018It did change everything. There was nothing like this when it came out in 1983. It was radical for its time, really \u2026 It\u2019s a really popular vehicle,\u2019 he said. \u2018Whenever we take a minivan to a show, it\u2019s just amazing the amount of stories there are. Everybody remembers their family had one. Everybody relates to the minivan.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Parks is translating Machiavelli\u2014and learning, as he does, that everyone approaches the man with one bogus preconception or another: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/18\/no-nonsense-machiavelli-the-prince\/\" target=\"_blank\">Written, an English Cardinal claimed, \u2018by Satan\u2019s finger,\u2019 and put on Pope Paul IV\u2019s Index of Prohibited Books in 1559, Machiavelli\u2019s little treatise would be blamed for more or less every act of political ruthlessness in Europe over the following two centuries<\/a> \u2026 The result is that translators come to\u00a0<em>The Prince\u00a0<\/em>with prejudices; one is tempted to play to the reader\u2019s expectations, laying on Machiavelli\u2019s supposed cynicism at the expense of the text\u2019s surprising subtlety \u2026 It is not that Machiavelli advocates or glorifies immoral behavior; it is that he ignores morality altogether. He is entirely focused on the simple question of how to achieve and hold power, by whatever method. So with\u00a0<em>The Prince<\/em>\u00a0more than with any other text I can remember, it was important never to bring in one\u2019s own moral position, or reaction to Machiavelli\u2019s refusal to assume a moral position, into the translation.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Vivian Gornick picked up <em>Marriage as a Fine Art<\/em>, a conversational vade mecum by the \u201ccelebrated French power couple\u201d Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers. They have somehow remained married for fifty years, only to emerge into a world where no one really gives a hoot about a long-lived, monogamous, heterosexual union. Reading their book, Gornick says, doesn\u2019t offer many clues on how they did it: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/138903\/tied-knots\" target=\"_blank\">Both Kristeva and Sollers are incorrigible intellectuals, constitutionally incapable of a simple anything, much less a straightforward answer to a straightforward question<\/a>. For each, theory is mother\u2019s milk, abstraction the staff of life. To be sure, bits of concrete information\u2014including the fact, mentioned on the book jacket, that Kristeva and Sollers do not actually live together\u2014appear alongside abstract disquisitions on literature, social history, analysis, you name it. But while their book is characterized by intellectual elegance, not much of what they say has the feel of flesh-and-blood reality \u2026 It is my fervent belief that no reader could come away from this book with anything like a usable insight into the actualities of the Kristeva-Sollers marriage\u2014or, for that matter, into the institution of marriage itself.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s Christmastime, and you\u2019re miserable. But\u00a0your life is probably better (or at least less dramatic) than a Thomas Hardy character\u2019s: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/dec\/17\/christmas-chaos-in-literature-from-emma-to-adrian-mole\" target=\"_blank\">We can console ourselves this Christmas that our domestic celebrations, however undermined by rows or culinary disasters, will at least end less catastrophically than Christmas in Weatherbury in\u00a0<em>Far from the Madding Crowd<\/em><\/a>. The wealthy Farmer Boldwood throws a grand Christmas party for the locals in order to celebrate the promise that he has extracted from Bathsheba that she will eventually marry him. Roasting and basting take place all day. Preparations for dancing are made. The mistletoe is carefully hung. \u2018That the party was intended to be a truly jovial one there was no room for doubt.\u2019 Bathsheba still wears black, in mourning for her husband, Sergeant Troy, who disappeared, apparently drowned, a year earlier. Troy of course is not dead but in the local inn, priming himself with brandy ahead of a surprise return. The publican divines that this will be a Christmas to remember \u2026 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: driving the original minivan, investigating the Danish word for comfort, and spending Christmas with Thomas 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