This Little Art Contributor(s): Briggs, Kate (Author) |
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ISBN: 1910695459 ISBN-13: 9781910695456 Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | European - General |
Dewey: 824.92 |
LCCN: 2017434790 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 4.9" W x 7.6" L (0.85 lbs) 392 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/26/2018 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |
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