Join the American Library in Paris, the Center for the Art of Translation, and The Center for Fiction for conversations across time, place, culture, and literary tradition, with live audiences in San Francisco, Brooklyn, and Paris.Īt the intersection of theory and practice, past and present, as well as story and history, The International Library celebrates the live diffusion of in-person conversations in the hope of conjuring new possibilities and connecting new audiences across land and sea for a collective, intercultural experience.

About The International LibraryĬonversations across time, place, and language Join us at our San Francisco office for coffee and pastries to enjoy this live streaming experience. This event will take place in person at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn (1:30pm ET) with audiences at the American Library in Paris (in Paris 19h30 CEST) and the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco (10:30am PT). Join Schnee and Boullosa for a conversation about translation twice (and sometimes thrice) over.

No, she was not created from Adam’s rib no, she was not expelled from the Garden of Eden for nibbling a forbidden apple and no, humanity was not deluged by a great flood. As Eve, fueled by “fiery disobedience,” tells her own version of the Book of Genesis, she brazenly rejects the stories that have oppressed women across millennia.

A striking example of translation and its many layers-of language, of myth, of tradition-Samantha Schnee’s new English translation of Mexican author Carmen Boullosa’s The Book of Eve twists, challenges, and ultimately revises a classic tale for a contemporary moment.

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