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Rabassa, Gregory

 
9780811216654: If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dsycontents : a Memoir
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ISBN 10 : 0811216659 ISBN 13 : 9780811216654
Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2006

Synopsis

A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005.

Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that the English translation of One Hundred Years was better than the Spanish original.) In If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, Rabassa offers a cool- headed and humorous defense of translation, laying out his views on the translator's art. Anecdotal and always illuminating, Rabassa traces his career from a boyhood on a New Hampshire farm, his school days collecting languages, the two and a half years he spent overseas during WWII, and his South American travels, until one day I signed a contract to do my first translation of a long work [Cortazar's Hopscotch] for a commercial publisher. Additionally, Rabassa offers us his rap sheet, a consideration of the various authors and the over 40 works he has translated. This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was the recipient of multiple prizes including a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center for contributions to Hispanic literature and a National Medal of Arts. He was the translator of One Hundred Years of Solitude, among other classic works.

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Éditeur
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0811216659
ISBN 13 
9780811216654
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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