Karashima’s talk was really enjoyable to listen to – he’s a great storyteller, and he talks very similarly, I think, to how he writes (how he wrote in the articles and book excerpts we read last week) – but I did, at some points, have a hard time piecing together all of the details of what he was saying, so I’m looking forward to going back and watching the recorded version to see if I can get some of the parts/details I might have missed the first time around. I especially want to revisit with the recording what he was saying about Japanese publishing encouraging novella length works – it just seems so opposite to what seems like a larger movement towards shorter work, and a hopeful opposite at that.
Although I can’t read the original Russian he’s translating from, based off the level of visual similarity, and from the way he writes in the “The Little Books of Julia Nemirovskaya” article, I feel like you can just tell how much precision/tightness he holds himself accountable for – I absolutely love the way he writes in that article, and after having read it I definitely appreciated his translations of Nemirovskaya more. I love the descriptions he gives of what he sees in Nemirovskaya’s poem – it’s hard for me to pick out precisely what makes it so compelling, and I think that’s definitely to his merit – the piece feels airtight, so to speak, like taking any one word out would be a genuine loss. Each and every descriptor he gives is so poignant and creative, it's such an impressive article. I am really looking forward to his talk on Friday, and I'm curious to see how his writing translates to his speech/presentation.
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