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The transcendent aspect of the psychedelic experience is totally absent.

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And these are universal relational matters, not necessarily particular to any country.
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I was confident that I could find an editor and the readership for a translation
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I don’t think there’s anything that I would call essentially Brazilian in João Gilberto Noll work. In that regard, it translates very well to a cosmopolitan audience.
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Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by Joao Gilberto Noll was available in English translation.
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Still, I considered it a tremendous injustice that Noll had not been more widely translated and was determined to rectify it.
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I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages to English, there is often a choice between a Latinate cognate and a Germanic equivalent.
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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 to foresee which details will send the narrator or the plot in an unsuspected direction.
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When I think about literature, I think about it in the three languages I read easily – English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing – in thought.
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English offers both obscurity and dark or darkness, and some translators will tell you the Latinate word is generally reserved for poetic and figurative expressions, while the Germanic word is used for colloquial and idiomatic use.
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The authors I prefer are all very different and are not limited to certain genres or even certain time periods.
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I realized I had some cultural capital to spend, and I wanted to use it to introduce another author who might be considered a risk by conventional publishers. Michael Noll was at the top of my list.
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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.
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One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.
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With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected.
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If João Gilberto Noll were writing in French or German or even Russian, it’s likely he’d be more broadly translated.
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