Translating myself and others
"In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her family to Italy to immerse herself fully in her adopted language. The book builds on that account through eight essays that reflect her early career as a transl...
| Main Authors: | Lahiri, Jhumpa (Author), Starnone, Domenico, 1943- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Why Italian?
- Containers : introduction to Ties /
- Domenico Starnone
- Juxtaposition : introduction to Trick /
- Domenico Starnone
- In praise of Echo : reflections on the meaning of translation
- An ode to the mighty optative : notes of a would-be translator
- Where I find myself : on self-translation
- Substitution : afterword to Trust /
- Domenico Starnone
- Traduzione (stra)ordinaria / (Extra)ordinary translation : on Gramsci
- Lingua/Language
- Calvino abroad
- Afterword : translating transformation.