A new ballet based on the life and writing of Oscar Wilde

根据奥斯卡·王尔德的生活和写作改编的新芭蕾舞剧

Monocle on Culture

社会与文化

2024-10-22

30 分钟
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We find out about ‘Oscar’, a ballet based on the life and work of Oscar Wilde. Plus: artist Sophie Matisse tells us about designing chess sets, and writer and translator Bruna Dantas Lobato discusses her new book, ‘Blue Light Hours’.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Hello and welcome to Monocle on Culture.

  • I'm Robert Bounds.

  • On today's show, we have three mind.

  • Expanding interviews with people at the top.

  • Of their game in areas of culture that we don't often cover here on the show.

  • This week, then, we are dipping our toes into the worlds of dance, translation and chess.

  • And we'll be taking you to Brazil and Australia via a quick jaunt to London, too.

  • Do stay tuned.

  • That's all ahead here on Monocle on culture.

  • First up, Bruna Dantes Lobato is a writer and translator of Brazilian literature.

  • Her translation of Stenio Gardel's novel the Words that Remain won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

  • While her own debut novel, Blue Light.

  • Hours will be published this October.

  • It focuses on the changing relationship between a mother and daughter when the latter moves from her hometown in Braz to university in the U.S.

  • monacle's Naomi Shue, elegant, caught up with Dantas Lobato to discuss her writing process and the art of translation.

  • I worried a lot that a book just about a relationship wouldn't be enough to sustain a novel or that the length, you know, wouldn't carry it through.

  • And I kind of wanted it to be the book to do a lot, to be an immigrant novel, a campus novel, mother, daughter novel.

  • But I also wanted it to be kind of simple and focused mostly on their relationship and how they felt about leaving one another in the separation.

  • So I'm not one of those writers who can plan ahead.

  • I didn't know how to pull it off until I actually did it.