{"id":8587,"date":"2016-08-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/?p=8587"},"modified":"2016-09-21T20:32:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:32:57","slug":"university-washington-translator-michael-biggins-lojze-kovacics-newcomers-720-dc-721-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/university-washington-translator-michael-biggins-lojze-kovacics-newcomers-720-dc-721-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Washington Translator Michael Biggins on Lojze Kovacic\u2019s \u201cNewcomers\u201d 7\/20 in DC and 7\/21 in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Biggins, Translator and UW Slavic Librarian<\/p>\n<p>Archipelago Books, a New York-based non-profit publisher that in the ten years it has existed has made major contributions to the availability of great works of world literature in English translation, is now making its first venture in Slovene literature with the publication of Newcomers, a highly autographical novel by Lojze Kova\u010di\u010d (1928-2004) that was first published in Slovenia in the mid-1980s. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align= alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/08\/Michael-Biggins.jpg\" alt=\"Michael-Biggins\" width=\"160\" height=\"159\" \/>A Bildungsroman that follows its protagonist\u2019s maturation from young boy to young man over the course of the twentieth century\u2019s most tumultuous decade \u2013 from 1938 to 1948 \u2013each of the three volumes of Newcomers focuses on a progressively higher stage in the process of growth, from the young boy\u2019s search for safety and his quest for power in Book One, to the adolescent\u2019s discovery of sex and love in Book Two, and culminating in the young man\u2019s emergence as a gifted creative artist in Book Three. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/08\/Biggins-Newcomers-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"Biggin's Newcomers\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/>The arc of this development takes place amid extreme material deprivation, inter-ethnic hostility, occupation by Axis powers, civil war and revolution, all of which marked life in the northwest corner of Yugoslavia at the time. As a fifty-five-year-old narrator looking back, Kova\u010di\u010d does a seamless job of channeling his boyhood, adolescent and young adult selves \u2013 all of them preternaturally observant \u2013 to produce one of the most perceptive and vibrant accounts of that time available in any literature. Newcomers is often referred to as the great twentieth-century Slovenian novel. Book One, which Archipelago just published this May, will be followed by Books Two and Three in English translation in 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Biggins will speak on his translation of Lojze Kova\u010di\u010d\u2019s Newcomers on July 20th at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and on July 21st at the Community Bookstore in New York City (Park Slope, Brooklyn).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Biggins, Translator and UW Slavic Librarian Archipelago Books, a New York-based non-profit publisher that in the ten years it has existed has made major contributions to the availability of great works of world literature in English translation, is now making its first venture in Slovene literature with the publication of Newcomers, a highly<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/university-washington-translator-michael-biggins-lojze-kovacics-newcomers-720-dc-721-nyc\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":8590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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