👱🏼♀️ i read books by women in translation for a week (
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
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hey besties,
today we're celebrating Women In Translation Month as i read five pieces of translated fiction by women! i'm super excited to be doing this for the very first time on my channel and i enjoyed these books so much, that i hope you'll consider picking up some translated fiction by women to read for yourself!
with love,
joel 🗡
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00:00 - 05:39 intro + sponsored message
📖 05:40 - 11:34 convenience store woman | / 38357895
📖 11:35 - 15:18 kitchen | / 50144
📖 15:19 - 19:50 the vegetarian | / 25489025
📖 19:51 - 22:30 things we lost in the fire | / 30375706
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WE LOVE A FELLOW BISEXUAL FEMINIST KING!! Dude, you have such an eloquent and stunning way of talking and expressing yourself, it's fascinating. I strive to be as well spoken as you are, truly. 💙✌️
ahhh thank you so much bestie!!
i love that you started with dude closely followed by eloquent ✨
@@jabulkoml Hahah, thank you! That's pretty much my style of speaking, throwing out stuff like "homie", "bro", "dude" and then using my relatively vast vocabulary to make up for it.
I WANT TO READ CONNIVENCE STORE WOMAN SO BAD IT SOUNDS SO GOOD
IT IS SO GOOD
i appreciate you naming the translators! it’s such a thankless job and these people help so much in spreading these stories to people who wouldn’t normally have the privilege to access them ❣️
Isabel Allende is one of those authors that you have to read about her historical context to understand better her work. Most of her novels are not really about the romance but about the horrors and despair and criticism of dictatorship from a magical realism point of view. I'm currently reading her novel "De amor y de sombras" (I don't know the title in english but I'd assume is something like "Of love and shadows") and I'm liking it so much but its so painful to read at the same time.
The house of spirits has been adapted to a couple of movies as well, I think the most recent one with Winona Ryder and Meryl Streep. Another excellent work of hers.
If you haven't read already, I recommend to you Garcia Marquez as well, same historical context but in another country, also magical realism.
I have a copy of both “La casa de los espíritus” and also “el país inventado,” which is more biographical and less fiction I believe? Would you recommend reading el país first to get context about her life, or reading Casa first, as it’s her most well known work?
@@celine22712 I haven't read other works apart from Eva Luna, La casa de los espiritus and De amor y de sombras, so I couldn't say. I studied Isabel Allende at school so I know her historical context from there.
If you have any interest at all in Han Kang’s other works you NEED to read Human Acts. It’s a multilayered view of the events surrounding the Gwanju Uprising in 1980 and never has a book seeped its way into the core of my being and ached deep within my bones like that book.
i’m really glad you read “eva luna” by isabel allende, she is a huge author in latin america, in chile we read her in school and stuff.
I’m so looking forward to reading more works by her!
You had me at anticapitalist piece.
Thank you for the remainder on drinking water! Grabbed myself a cup of water after you mentioned it. I added some of these books on my tbr list. :D Have a great week!
I hope you have a great week too!
loved this!! english-speaking people should definitely read more translated fiction just like the rest of the world. also, the books are amazing, I've been hearing about all of them for ages in Brazil but this is the first time I've seen an english-speaking booktuber mention them. thanks for the vid!!
Amazing choices for WIT!
thank you!!
It makes me so happy to see youtubers reading popular argentinian authors, even if they don't get it - like the "offensive" language which is not really a thing here, besides, its fiction and not real life- I hope you consider reading more latin american literature!
I had the exact same thought
THE VEGETARIAN WAS SO JARRING AND I LITERALLY LOCK UP EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT IT LIKE it was one of those books that I wanted to look away from and stop reading but I literally couldn’t and it wasn’t because it was just that good (it was good, don’t get me wrong), but because I wanted to know how it ends if that makes sense 😭😭😭
Omg do a video ( this would be a lot) where you read the book and then watch the show… like the handmaids tale, nine perfect strangers, and the queens gambit.
I'm so glad you loved Kitchen. I finally read it this year as well and was blown away by how impactful it was, even more so considering how short the book is. Hardboiled & Hard Luck impressed me equally. And on a general note, excellent choices of books/authors. Thank you for doing a readathon on women in translation.
At 26:35 My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum by Meir Shalev (only because my grand grandfather have sence there) and The Heart Of The Circle by Karen Landsman (low fantasy set in Tal Aviv)
At 9:41 and sometimes people don't understand it when you do break form what is "normal" like the amount of time Peoples don't understand me like my ADHD and other stuffs that have with that as well, people asumme that maybe it's doesn't make sense how I'm both smart and knowledge (in sence they think I'm lying about my disability) but also have some struggle that doesn't make sense with my successful or I have different disability than one I have been diagnosed with. Yes unfortunately I sometimes get angry at it but the good news I have friends and family who try to understand it and I happy when sometimes that they don't understand me they can ask me
I wonder if the problematic language was problematic from the author, or from the translator. I never really thought about that, until I saw that the Dutch title of Look me in the eye by John Elder Robison is Ik hield altijd meer van treinen (I always prefered trains) I haven’t read the book, so I can’t speak about it much, but I hate the Dutch title so much and feels like it’s just an autism stereotype (though it might work with the book, I haven’t read it) vs the English title which feels like a commentary on the treatment of autistic people
true! i was wondering too, since i haven't read the book but know about the author, and will definitely read it in the original language to check it out
@@bestnarryever It might be the translation, honestly. There are some words that aren't slurs in Spanish that translate into slurs in English, so sometimes when translating you need to choose between being true to the original or switching the word for something that's not a slur in English. It's a tough call.
aaaaaaaaa I love to stan such a conscious respectful loving king! you seriously put one of the best contents out there, you’re the first one to successfully convince me to read convenience store woman and aaaa just so perfect joel, your energy is everything! 💛
thank you so much bestie 🥺
@@fictionalfates thank you too!! and my bad, just realized my autocorrect changed your name haha i put it back correctly now
you making sure we drink our water 🥺 such a treasure
I'm autistic and it made me feel very warm and fuzzy when you talked about the coding and message in CSW :3
THIS ANIMATED PIXEL INTRO??? I'M SCREAMING!!! it's amazing 💖 JUST LIKE YOU 💖
you HAVE to read The Posthumous Memoirs Of Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis. It’s a major classic from Brazil’s literature and the author is a black revolutionary man. I can’t recommend enough.
Brilliant video! I’ve definitely gotta check out some of these myself; also couldn’t help but notice that cop of The Calling. That version of the book is stunning!
Convience store woman was a great read and a short one to.
Love this video theme! I also read Convenience Store Woman and The Vegetarian this year and I really want to read Kitchen and some of Isabel Alende's works too. I love reading translated literature!!
Loved this so much!
I read the vegetarian last year and I still can’t stop thinking about it. It was so disturbingly good, it got under my skin so bad I actually couldn’t eat much for 3 days...
I just got a copy of Convenience Store Woman so I can’t wait to read that.
I have only read A Long Petal of The Sea by Isabel Allende and I definitely recommend it. It's a life time story that goes between Franco Spain and Chile and back again.
some Brazilian (Portuguese) must-reads translated to English:
- Amora, by Natalia Borges Polesso (lesbian short stories, all great)
- The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis (XIX century classic, from the pov of a dead guy talking shit about society, the Penguin translator is a specialist!!)
- Clarice Lispector (literally anything that you can find by her. it's said to be witchcraft in the form of writing, but can be a little complicated, just feel the vibes and go with it. I recommend the short stories)
- Crow Blue, by Adriana Lisboa (character moves to the US so it's kind of a diaspora story?)
- Two Brothers, by Milton Hatoum (drama!! twins hate each other!! lebanese migration in the Amazon)
- Daytripper, by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Bá (a graphic novel, about life and death and will make you cry)
- Jorge Amado (again, literally anything. it's like time travel and teletransportation, you can actually SMELL the food he describes, so good)
- Paulo Coelho (a bit cheesy but I like his books and they're super popular)
- Marilene Felinto (I guess it kinda reads as magical realism? reminds me of Pedro paramo)
-Socorro Acioli (this one I haven't read but everyone's talking about it)
Please add this to your reading vlog Playlist...I'd love to watch through this again
My mom has been wanting me to read Isabel Allende and I might have to try now because that synopsis sounded so intriguing 👀
samanta schweblins fever dream is an actual fever dream
I love that you called a band-paid a plaster. Its very weird but very cute at the same time
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I don´t know if you read it already but "Human Acts" by Han Kang destroyed me and left a whole in my heart, I loved it
Things we lost in the fire seems interesting! That sucks it wasn’t as good as you were expecting
I'm sorry if this is out of left field for this video, but I just want to recommend The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter (if it's not on your tbr already) It's an amzing African inspired fantasy. The diversity is way better than most adult fantasy, and the story, characters, and theme .... I can't get into it without ranting for hours. It's so good!! It's just ... argh ... it renders me speechless, as you can see lol. Anyways, I highly recommend.
Also I love getting videos like these. I never heard of Women In Translation before but that's an amazing project. Thanks for brining it to prople's attention. I just found your channel but it's already one of my favorite booktube channels :)
amazing
i've only read daughter of fortune by isabel of allende and need to read house of spirits; enjoyed hearing your thoughts on these books.
Thanks for recommendations! Agreed on your opinions with The Vegetarian and yes, Things we lost in fire definately wouldn't recommend to everyone. If you're interesting to read more of Isabel Allende's works better look for her newest ones like Japanese lover or her book of essays titled The Soul of a Woman because it's really different from her previous texts, i.e. not too detailed or slow-paced, which is what I had problems with earlier ones. I also loved her older work Hija de fortuna, but not sure about outdated language since I've read it in croatian translation and I've seen publishers from my country really take care about omitting offensive words from text(those I've read so far). Also, currently reading A Tale For Time Being, it's already 5/5 for me and all I can say adore japanese writers, this one makes me learn the language so that I'll be able to read in original. Sorry for any spelling mistakes (if there are), struggling with that. Loved this video, nice haircut! :)
It was great to walk through these books
SO EXCITED FOR THIS VIDEO
AHHHH 🥺
@@fictionalfates I LOVE ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS 🥰🥰
@@sash2107 that means so much, thank you!!
loved this vid!!!!!! defs prepare yourself for earthlings LMAO
yesss i was so bored. hope you are well joel!
i’m doing well!! hope you’re okay bestie
Jeong You-Jeong is my FAVORITE female writer! A fabulous Korean author of psychological thrillers!
adding this instant to my list!!
I would recommend you Maria Judite de Carvalho or Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. I am not sure if the former is translated into English but I know that Sophia is.
oooh, thank you so much!
@@fictionalfates there are many more but those two are some of my favourite Portuguese writers from the 20th century🥰
i think the anticapitalism and the anticonformity* go hand in hand in convenience store woman! and in general honestly, because capitalism wants to make us all into (work) machines, wants us all to be the same in the worst way possible, to conform and accept the rules that have been established. and if we don't, we're not valuable, we don't matter. i love this book!
*hope that's the right word, english isn't my native language!
As an Asian woman, reading The Vegetarian was an UNNERVING experience. Like my situation was no where close to what the female characters have to go
through, but damn the micro aggressions, violence and suppression from a collectivist culture hit too close to home.
earliest i’ve ever been heyo
heyo bestie
For me as someone who know English and Hebrew I usually read in English than Hebrew (for allot of reasons) but the main issue is that I don't know what to read senice most of the times books are tarnation form English and have romance in them
Isabel Allende is my fav author, but I'd say Eva Luna is my less favorite . I HIGHLY recommend you to read The Japanese Lover (my fav book), The House of the Spirits, or Island under the sea. Eva Luna -in mi opinion- does not make justice to how powerful Allende's storytelling can really be.
Yay! I want to read convenience store women. I hear it is really good. It is so short I might read it in Japanese which is why I'm saving it. Something important too is who translates the books. I recently read Breasts and Eggs, another Japanese novel, in translation. And the translator was a white male and at times that was obvious and I wondered what the originally text had said. It's sad because in Japan more so than here in the U.S. not working in a "professional job" means being not worth a lot (unless you're a student). I hate that capitalism makes us all about our jobs and not who we are as people. Kitchen! That is the only novella I have read fully in Japanese and it was very important to me. Lake is another great story by Banana. Banana has a way of writing that really hurts one's heart. The Vegetarian was wow, horror but in a way I didn't always want, some of it was very trippy. It was an experience. I like critically thinking about the story, it's deep. But also it was too creepy for me in a sexual way. For me, as someone with an eating disorder, at the time I read it, I felt that it could have been a commentary on the male gaze of the body and how that forces women to starve. The author of Things We Lost in the Fire also wrote Dangers of Smoking in Bed, and that collection was so heavy with sex that my ace brain died and went to hell and I did not like it at all. Plus one of the stories was very transphobic in terminology. Thanks for this video.
I read Earthlings yesterday and it was the most disturbing and disgusting thing I've ever read.🤮🤮🤮
Huge TW for rape, sexual assault of a minor, rape of a minor, cannibalism, description of sawing people and other disturbing things 😅
I loved convenience store woman and everything that the author discusses when it comes especially to the norms of the japanese society, but the things that Sayaka Murata put in her last books were mostly put in order to have shock value than anything else 😶
oop, thank you for the TWs!
I really disliked The Vegetarian, but respect it as a novel. I didn't feel Han Kang was catering to the male gaze but was emphasizing how few ways women can truly experience self-determination and autonomy due to patriarchal and heteronormative expectations that repress women and sexuality that doesn't center cis straight men (to an extreme)
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You know I don't like threatening you, Joel, but if you don't read NOTES OF A CROCODILE
I WILL GET TO IT EVENTUALLY 😭
@@fictionalfates You better! Or else...
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don’t you have a story graph account? 🥺🥺
i do! i’m planning on using it more actively in the new year 😌
I absolutely looove Isabel Allende's novel The House of the Spirits, but yeah.....she has some problematic views. So much casual racism against indigenous Latin Americans. And there's a whole section of The House of the Spirits referring to "mongoloid children" (???), apparently which is meant to refer to developmental disorders??? Girl no.