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CAT Book Club: Translating Crocodiles | Center for the Art of Translation | Two Lines Press

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This website or its third-party tools process personal data. You can opt out of the sale of your personal information by clicking on the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link. ARTICLE An interview with Bonnie Huie, translator of Qiu Miaojin’s Notes of a Crocodile. Sarah Coolidge: A lot has been written of the fragmented, genre-bending nature of this novel. What was your experience of first reading Qiu Miaojin? How does her style compare to other Taiwanese writers from that time? Bonnie Huie: Postmodernism, particularly its manifestation in the experimental aesthetics of the ’80s and ’90s, is fundamental to Qiu’s style. Because I was a fan of essay-films like Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil and Derek Jarman’s Blue, I immediately recognized the interdisciplinary nature of her writing, which assimilates the theory behind auteur cinema, where one’s style can essentially be expressed through formalism, including the sequential and rhythmic arrangement of images. While there are oth

In the last post for the CAT Book Club, we talked about the author of Notes of a Crocodile (opens in a new tab) , Qiu Miaojin. This post, our attention turns to the translator, Bonnie Huie, who agreed to answer my questions last month via email. Sarah Coolidge: A lot has been written of the fragmented, genre-bending nature of this novel. What was your experience of first reading Qiu Miaojin? How does her style compare to other Taiwanese writers from that time? Bonnie Huie: Postmodernism, particularly its manifestation in the experimental aesthetics of the ’80s and ’90s, is fundamental to Qiu’s

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