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In Julio Cortázar’s “Axolotl,” a man develops an unexpected bond with an amphibian at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, to the point where he becomes—and realizes he has always been—an axolotl.
The axolotl has eyes that tell the narrator of “a different life, of another way of seeing.” He stares for so long into its deep, golden eyes that the identities of the narrator and creature switch, so that the narrator remains in the tank, while the man, watching him through the glass, moves on with his life.
Surrealism’s influence on Cortázar’s imagination is apparent in how he does not let reason dictate his tale. He follows another logic: one predicated on what Martin Buber might call an I-Thou relationship. The narrator loses himself in contemplation of the other, until the axolotl’s Otherness becomes a Selfness—it becomes, in fact, the narrator. The way Cortázar’s achieves this switch—one might even speak of a metamorphosis—is subtle. The only identity switch like it that I have read is in Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Form of the Sword,” which handles it quite differently.
Cortázar’s narrator is not alone in his ability to self-identify with an axolotl. It’s a fairly common reaction. There is something inherently charismatic in the ugly cuteness of these creature
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Ross Benjamin
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“As a translator, your initial feeling is, ‘I want to inhabit this text.’ There’s a primary identification, a mirror effect, where you see your own creative possibilities reflected there, and want to realize them through this text.”
The 7th annual Festival Neue Literatur is Feb. 25-28, 2016 in New York, and this podcast is a Media Partner, so let’s talk to the event’s curator! Translator and Guggenheim fellow Ross Benjamin joins the show to talk about putting together “Seriously Funny,” this year’s FNL theme, and coordinating the 6 German language authors and 2 Americans who will be the featured guests. We talk about humor, German stereotypes, and the difference between reading a language and being able to speak it. Along the way, we get into the styles that different translators have, the challenges and joys of translating Kafka’s diaries, the pros and cons of translating living authors and dead ones, and the angst of trying to give meaning to a single word. Give it a listen, and get over to Festival Neue Literatur from February 25-28, 2016 in New York!
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