{"id":154091,"date":"2021-08-17T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T21:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=154091"},"modified":"2021-08-17T17:52:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T21:52:35","slug":"redux-some-instants-are-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/17\/redux-some-instants-are-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Some Instants Are Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_153860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_146928\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/costa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146928\" class=\"wp-image-146928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/costa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/costa.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/costa-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/costa-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Jull Costa. Photo: \u00a9 Gary Doak \/ Alamy Stock Photo.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week at\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re highlighting women writers and translators from around the world in honor of Women in Translation Month. Read on for Margaret Jull Costa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7570\/the-art-of-translation-no-7-margaret-jull-costa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art of Translation interview<\/a>, Hiromi Kawakami\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/5482\/mogera-wogura-hiromi-kawakami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mogera Wogura<\/a>,\u201d Claribel Alegria\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2494\/summing-up-claribel-alegria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summing Up<\/a>,\u201d and Svetlana Alexievich\u2019s work of nonfiction \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/5447\/voices-from-chernobyl-svetlana-alexievich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voices from Chernobyl<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, poems, and works of criticism, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/nyb\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=NYB&amp;publ=NY&amp;key_code=EPGGPRN&amp;type=S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to both\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The New York Review of Books<\/em>\u00a0and read both magazines\u2019 entire archives?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7570\/the-art-of-translation-no-7-margaret-jull-costa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margaret Jull Costa, The Art of Translation No. 7<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 233 (Summer 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Translating is writing, and I see no distinction, really, between being a writer and being a translator, apart from the very major distinction that I don\u2019t start with a blank page but immerse myself in another writer\u2019s words and transpose them into my own language. People often ask if I don\u2019t yearn to write my own novels, and I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t have that kind of storytelling imagination. Just as actors don\u2019t all yearn to write plays or musicians to compose symphonies, I enjoy the process of interpretation and performance, of conveying someone else\u2019s words and ideas to a new audience. Not that I\u2019m a neutral voice, that\u2019s not possible, but, if all goes well, I\u2019m the writer\u2019s voice with a different cadence.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154096\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/04a81afe-13cc-6c3f-4f0f-f188fe360121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154096\" class=\"wp-image-154096 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/04a81afe-13cc-6c3f-4f0f-f188fe360121.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/04a81afe-13cc-6c3f-4f0f-f188fe360121.png 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/04a81afe-13cc-6c3f-4f0f-f188fe360121-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/04a81afe-13cc-6c3f-4f0f-f188fe360121-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mogera wogura by Coenraad Jacob Temminck, 1842, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/5482\/mogera-wogura-hiromi-kawakami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mogera Wogura<\/a><br \/>\nBy Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Michael Emmerich<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 173 (Spring 2005)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Every morning, I go around and give each human a few soft pats on the shoulder. First, this allows me to make sure they\u2019re still alive. Second, it gives me a chance to find out if they want to leave immediately, or if they\u2019d prefer to stay a little longer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I drag the dead ones out of the house and drop them down a hole that has been dug outside, even deeper into the earth. The hole extends more than a hundred meters below the surface. I didn\u2019t dig the hole. Neither did my wife. It took our ancestors generations to dig it, working at their own pace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_153868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_154097\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/85fa4be6-9b44-dda2-ce6a-27d3d39d7912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154097\" class=\"wp-image-154097 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/85fa4be6-9b44-dda2-ce6a-27d3d39d7912.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/85fa4be6-9b44-dda2-ce6a-27d3d39d7912.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/85fa4be6-9b44-dda2-ce6a-27d3d39d7912-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/85fa4be6-9b44-dda2-ce6a-27d3d39d7912-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rotary dial phone by Berthold Werner, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2494\/summing-up-claribel-alegria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summing Up<\/a><br \/>\nBy Claribel Alegria, translated by Darwin T Flakoll<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 108 (Fall 1988)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In the sixty-three years<br \/>\nI have lived<br \/>\nsome instants are electric:<br \/>\nthe happiness of my feet<br \/>\njumping puddles<br \/>\nsix hours in Machu Picchu<br \/>\nthe buzzing of the telephone<br \/>\nwhile awaiting my mother\u2019s death<br \/>\nthe ten minutes it took<br \/>\nto lose my virginity<br \/>\nthe hoarse voice<br \/>\nannouncing the assassination<br \/>\nof Archbishop Romero \u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154107\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/5447\/voices-from-chernobyl-svetlana-alexievich\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154107\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/6c39e568-a1bb-ab2d-2793-df3bb6e97fe6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/6c39e568-a1bb-ab2d-2793-df3bb6e97fe6.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/6c39e568-a1bb-ab2d-2793-df3bb6e97fe6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/6c39e568-a1bb-ab2d-2793-df3bb6e97fe6-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Chernobyl nuclear power plan by Vadim Mouchkin \/ IAEA, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/5447\/voices-from-chernobyl-svetlana-alexievich\">Voices from Chernobyl<\/a><br \/>\nBy Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 172 (Winter 2004)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There\u2019s a fragment of some conversation, I\u2019m remembering it. Someone saying: \u201cYou have to understand: This is not your husband anymore, not a beloved person, but a radioactive object with a strong density of poisoning. You\u2019re not suicidal. Get a hold of yourself.\u201d And I was like someone who\u2019d lost her mind: \u201cBut I love him! I love him!\u201d He\u2019s sleeping, and I\u2019m whispering: \u201cI love you!\u201d Walking in the hospital courtyard, \u201cI love you.\u201d Carrying his sanitary tray, \u201cI love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/flex\/TPR\/MAIN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe<\/a>! In addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-eight years\u2019 worth of archives. 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