Jhumpa Lahiri’s story from this week’s Fiction Issue is “one of the first short stories I attempted to write in Italian, at a time when I was still on a very steep learning curve in terms of understanding how to write in that language.”
,” came out in Italy last year. “P’s Parties” was translated into English by Todd Portnowitz, with your collaboration. What was it like to return to the story when you were working on its English incarnation?
Parties are a parenthesis in life, along the lines of vacations and other types of journeys. They have internal “plots” and are good fictional material for this reason. They always mean one thing for the host and another thing for the guests. They are characterized by surfaces and depths. They are spaces in which it’s possible to reinvent oneself, even if only for a little while. Though the point of any party is for all the guests to enjoy themselves, I don’t think that’s ever really the case.
The narrator misses his son keenly, and this longing creates a tacit rift between him and his wife. He reads his son’s decision to study and live abroad, and to blossom away from home, as a form of rejection. So he already feels unmoored when the story begins. Parent-child-separation drama is something like the city of Rome: multilayered and, as they say, eternal. I imagine that the narrator is resistant to change on various fronts.
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