Yale Library Book Talk: R.F. Kuang
Rebecca Kuang (R.F. Kuang) will be in conversation with Robyn Creswell, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, about her new bestselling novel “Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution.”
“Babel” — a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal response to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell — grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of translation as a tool of empire.