Book record
This Could Take Some time
Clara Muschietti
Translated from Spanish by Curtis Bauer
Clara Muschietti’s This Could Take Some Time, translated by Curtis Bauer, feels like a title willing to give delay its dignity. So much contemporary reading is built around extraction, speed, and summary; this book seems to ask for the opposite. Coming from Argentine Spanish through Eulalia Books, it suggests a poetry of duration, process, and patient arrival. The phrase could be comic, resigned, intimate, or ominous depending on the line that follows it, and that tonal flexibility is part of its appeal. Bauer’s translation gives the work a way to move into English without losing the pause embedded in the title. I would read it as a book about attention under slow pressure, where the value may lie in what refuses to hurry.
- Publisher
- Eulalia Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Argentina