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This Little Art
This Little Art
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Description: An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre - bending song for the practice of literary translation offering fresh fierce and timely thinking on reading writing and living with the works of others. 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 intensely relational 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 Andr Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table for him for the first time on an undeserted island. With This Little Art a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive wise frank funny and utterly original.
Title: This Little Art
Author(s): Briggs Kate
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Barcode: 9781910695456
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 9/20/2017
Category: Literary Essays
Description: An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre - bending song for the practice of literary translation offering fresh fierce and timely thinking on reading writing and living with the works of others. 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 intensely relational 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 Andr Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table for him for the first time on an undeserted island. With This Little Art a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive wise frank funny and utterly original.
Title: This Little Art
Author(s): Briggs Kate
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Barcode: 9781910695456
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 9/20/2017
Category: Literary Essays