So It Goes - Bouvier, Translation and Travel Writing with Robyn Marsack

We look forward to welcoming Robyn Marsack, and Peter Kravitz as interviewer, to the shop to talk about the first ever translation of travel writer, Nicolas Bouvier's So It Goes into English!

This collection of his shorter writing is from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. In the Aran Isles in mid-winter, he glories in the extremities of the wind outside while inside, feverish, he is enchanted by local tales which hum like a kettle on the fire. In Xian, he pays homage to the civilised brilliance and understatement of his guide, while in Korea he experiences the unchanging beauty of the Buddhist temple at Haeinsa and is marked forever by his climb of volcanic Halla-San. And the roots of his interminable curiosity and amusement are traced back to his childhood reading, and to the bitter war he conducted at the age of eight to rid himself of his arch-nemesis, Bertha.

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We are thrilled to have Robyn Marsack in to talk about translating Bouvier's work. She won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize in 1988 for her translation of Bouvier’s The Scorpion-Fish, and went on to translate his classic L’Usage du Monde / The Way of the World.

Peter Kravitz was editor of Edinburgh Review between 1984 and 1990. His Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction was published in 1997. For the past twenty years he has worked as a psychotherapist, since 2012 at the Edinburgh Maggie’s Centre

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As ever we have 15 free tickets available for this event! These are intended to make the evening accessible to those who are unwaged/ on benefits/ might not otherwise be able to attend - If you can afford a £3 ticket please book one as this supports the bookshop and allows us to save free places for those who can’t, thanks!