Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers, which sometimes forecloses their unique modernism and experience of modernization in favor of a mythic past or an… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
The Brazilian national identity is not one of João Gilberto Noll primary concerns. This does not mean social critique is absent: race, gender, and class relations are considered in Quiet Creature. And these are universal relational matters, not necessarily particular… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Dreamlike sequencing is perhaps one of João Gilberto Noll's most remarkable triumphs in Quiet Creature on the Corner. I translated the novel and still… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in English translation.… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Unless you count the political backdrop, which in any case is a familiar one to many international readers, I don't think there's anything that… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
This neglect of a very important Brazilian writer is, in my view, the result of Brazil's relative isolation from what metropolitan tastemakers. If João… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation. — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it's never easy… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at Melville House,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
The main reason I decided to study Latin American literature was because I'd gotten somewhat bored by the American fiction I was reading. I… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
