Lahiri, Jhumpa

Translating myself and others - Princeton Princeton University Press 2023 - 198 p.

1. Why Italian? 2. Continuities 3. Introduction to Ties 4. Juxtaposition 5. In Praise of the Echo 6. Where I Find Myself 7. Trust 8. Introduction to Trick 9.Lingua/Language 10. Calvino Abroad

This book examining the distinction between writing and translating, the themes of writing, desire, and freedom, and the influence of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks and Italo Calvino's popularity as a translated author. The book features essays originally written in Italian and published in English.

9780691260303


Translating and Interpreting.
Self-Translation.

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