America Yawns at Foreign Fiction

America Yawns at Foreign Fiction, in the NYTimes, looks at the trend that writers, publishers and cultural critics have long lamented the difficulty of interesting American readers in translated literature, and now some say the market for these books is smaller than it has been in generations.

“It is not an exaggeration to refer to this as a national crisis,” said Cliff Becker, literature director at the National Endowment for the Arts. “I am a citizen of the most powerful country the world has known, a country that asks me to be part of its decision-making process on a whole range of things. If I’m not able to experience other cultures, not even from a place that is as easy to reach as the printed page, that is outright dangerous.”

July 30, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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