Jig: The Cahier Series - Couverture souple

Steyn, Jan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909631507 ISBN 13 : 9781909631502

Editeur : Sylph Editions, 2026

Synopsis

In the process of translating La Fontaine's fable 'Gout and Spider' into Afrikaans, Jan Steyn found himself questioning how gout has been named, moralised, pictured, and explained, and what a translator might learn from those histories. Jig is the result: part literary history, part memoir, part meditation on translation. Moving between medicine and metaphor, it revisits writers who have lent gout its voice - Hippocrates, Lucian, Petrarch, Benjamin Franklin, Dickens - while following the condition's afterlives in Afrikaner culture. Throughout, Steyn returns to translation's balancing act of loss and restitution as a way of thinking about illness, inheritance, and the stories bodies tell. Accompanying and dialoguing with his text are photographs by eminent New Zealand artist Anne Noble: images that evoke hidden roots and routes, networks of communication, and that serve as ghostly counterpoints to gout's crystals and protrusions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jan Steyn is a writer, translator, and scholar of world literature. Born and raised in South Africa, he has subsequently lived in France and the United States. He teaches literature at the University of Iowa, where he directs the MFA in Literary Translation. He is the editor of Translation: Crafts, Contexts, Consequences (2024). His translation work spans Afrikaans, French, Dutch, and English.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sylph Editions
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909631507
• ISBN 13: 9781909631502
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Noble Anne
• Nombre de pages: 44
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• Personne responsable: non disponible