Benjamín Labatut and Adrian Nathan West on When We Cease to Understand the World
Author Benjamín Labatut and translator Adrian Nathan West talk about the International Booker Prize-longlisted When We Cease to Understand the World.
Adrian Nathan West
Adrian Nathan West is the translator of more than 20 books from Spanish, Catalan and German.
He is the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation and Philosophy of a Visit. His essays have appeared in the Baffler, the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and many other journals in print and online.
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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021. Benjamín Labatut’s extraordinary imagination digs deep into the territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness. Translated by Adrian Nathan West.
Translated by Adrian Nathan West