Speaking in tongues
Speaking in Tongues--taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dim©đpulos--examines some of the most pressing linguistic issues that plague writers and translators well into the twenty-first century. The authors address questions that...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation,
[2025]
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| Edition: | [Hardcover edition]. |
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| Summary: | Speaking in Tongues--taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dim©đpulos--examines some of the most pressing linguistic issues that plague writers and translators well into the twenty-first century. The authors address questions that we must answer in order to understand contemporary society. They inquire if one can truly love an acquired language, and they question why certain languages, like Spanish, have gender differences built into them. They examine the threat of monolingualism and ask how we can counter, if at all, the global spread of the English language, which seems to maraud like a colonial power. They question whether it should be the duty of the translator to remove morally objectionable, misogynistic, or racist language. And in the conclusion, Coetzee even speculates whether it's only mathematics that can tell the truth about everything. Drawing from decades of experience in the craft of language, both Dimópulos and Coetzee face the reality that when it comes to self-expression, some things will always get lost in translation. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 119 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [103]-104) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781324096450 1324096454 |
| Author Notes: | Mariana Dimópulos is an Argentine writer, translator, and teacher specializing in German philosophy and the work of Walter Benjamin. She has published four novels, including Quemar El Cielo (2019), which was a finalist for the Fundación Medifé Filba Novel Prize. She is a professor at the University of Saarland and the University of Halle. She lives in Berlin. |
