Briggs, Kate
This Little Art
- ISBN 13:
- 9781910695456
- author:
- Briggs, Kate
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 19.7 x 12.5 centimetres (0.39 kg
- Genre:
- Biography, Literary, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Kate Briggs's This Little Art is an essay that explores the practice of literary translation with the reach and momentum of a novel. Drawing on her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes, Briggs weaves together various stories to create a portrait of translation as a complex and intensely relational activity. Through her account, Briggs recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification, as well as the loving relationship between Andr Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. With This Little Art, Briggs offers a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience that is both personal and profound. Briggs emerges as a remarkable writer in her own right, bringing distinctive wisdom, frankness, humor, and originality to her work.
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