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January 30, 2004

Boise State Prof Will Browning To Read From New Translation

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Will Browning, a Boise State University French and Spanish professor, will read from his translation of the R�jean Ducharme  novel Go Figure at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, at the Log Cabin Literary  Center. Poet Diane Raptosh will also read. The Log Cabin Literary Center is at 801 S. Capitol Blvd. Go Figure (originally Va savoir, Gallimard), a 1994 novel by Quebec�s acclaimed and reclusive Ducharme, is the second Ducharme novel Browning has translated and had published in Canada. Go Figure is available at the Boise State Bookstore or at www.talonbooks.com. Go Figure is the haunting tale of a Montr�al couple alienated from each other following the miscarriage of twin girls. R�mi Vavasseur�s wife, Mammy, leaves him to crisscross Europe and Africa in the company of R�mi�s former mistress, not because she no longer loves him, but because she no longer loves herself. While she is gone, R�mi remodels a ramshackle house in the Quebec countryside in anticipation of Mammy�s returning to him one day. This novel of �leftover love� is R�mi�s journal of their parallel journeys. Ducharme, considered one of Quebec�s foremost writers, is known throughout the Francophone world for his rich language full of juxtapositions and double meanings, a particular challenge for any translator. For example, Browning coined the term �fixher-upper� [sic] to refer to the house R�mi is remodeling for his wife. Browning has also translated Ducharme�s only novel in verse, La Fille de Christophe Colomb (Gallimard, 1969) as The Daughter of Christopher Columbus (Guernica, 2000), in which �Browning offers English-language readers a clever, privileged, yet exigent glimpse into the work of one of Quebec�s most fascinating and elusive writers� (Letters in Canada, 2000). -30- ISBN 0-88922-482-X 5.5X8.5, 256 pp Trade Paper $19.95 Canadian/$15.95 U.S. (plus $3 shipping and handling for each book) Talonbooks P.O. Box 2076 Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3S3 Canada e-mail: orders@talonbooks.com phone: (604) 444-4889 fax: (604) 444-4119 Contact                              Will Browning                            Modern languages and literatures                   208 426-1071                                Media Contact Kathleen Craven communications and marketing 208 426-3275

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