Rediscovery with Lauren Elkin

An episode of the Literary Friction podcast, hosted by Literary Friction, titled "Rediscovery with Lauren Elkin" was published on May 19, 2022 and runs 59 minutes.

May 19, 2022 ·59m · Literary Friction

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Who gets to decide what a 'classic' is? And how and why do some books get reintroduced to us years after they were first published? This month we're continuing a conversation we started four years ago with Jennifer Hodgson and Nell Dunn about literary rediscoveries, with our guest, author and translator Lauren Elkin. Lauren joined us to talk about her translation of The Inseparables, a newly discovered novel by the influential philosopher and novelist Simone de Beavouir. Just published in English by Vintage, it tells the story of the intense friendship between two schoolgirls in turn of the century Paris...

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