Jhumpa Lahiri

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Translating Myself and OthersPaperback, 12 September 2023

Translating Myself and Others
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Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
12 Sep 2023
ISBN-10
0691238618
ISBN-13
9780691238616

Description

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator

Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.

With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle's Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino's popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question "Why Italian?," and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.

Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri's most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator's art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.

Product Details

Author:
Jhumpa Lahiri
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
12 September 2023
Genre:
Feminine
ISBN-10:
0691238618
ISBN-13:
9780691238616
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
208

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