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Item Details
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THIS LITTLE ART
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| By: |
Kate Briggs |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1910695467 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781910695463 |
| Publisher: |
FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS |
| Pub. date: |
20 September, 2017 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
Part-essay and part-memoir, THIS LITTLE ART is a manifesto for the practice of literary translation. Taking her experience translating Roland Barthes' lectures at the College de France as her starting point, Kate Briggs offers a portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and formative activity. |
| Synopsis: |
Part-memoir, part-essay, Kate Briggs's THIS LITTLE ART is a genre-bending manifesto and song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking about the various aspects of translation: what it involves, who does it, why they do it, its strange status and why it matters. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and formative activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification. She writes about the loving relationship between Andre Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for him for the first time, on a desert island. With THIS LITTLE ART, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs announces herself as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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