| Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays about Translation Contributor(s): Sharon Schwartz, Lynne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1609809742 ISBN-13: 9781609809744 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Translating & Interpreting - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A collection of stories and essays about translating and translators What an astonishing collection, it seemed as if I could drink it--these pieces exude such humanness, refer effortlessly to the tender place that exists in between languages, and somehow leave you with both everything and nothing to say. --Ella Frances Sanders, author of Lost in Translation In Joyce Carol Oates's story The Translation, a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis's French Lesson I: Le Meurtre, what begins as a lesson in beginner's French takes a sinister turn. In the essay On Translating and Being Translated, Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator. Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays About Translation gathers together thirteen stories and five essays that explore the compromises, misunderstandings, traumas, and reconciliations we act out and embody through the art of translation. |