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In other words / Jhumpa Lahiri ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3562.A316 Z46 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lahiri, Jhumpa.
- Standardized Title:
- In altre parole. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Lahiri, Jhumpa--Travel.
- Lahiri, Jhumpa.
- Interlanguage (Language learning)--Biography.
- Interlanguage (Language learning).
- Italian language--Writing--Biography.
- Italian language.
- Italian language--Writing.
- Travel.
- Rome (Italy)--Biography.
- Rome (Italy).
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Travel writing.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 233 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- Summary:
- At heart, this is a love story -- of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write -- initially in her journal -- solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice.
- Contents:
- The crossing
- The dictionary
- Love at first sight
- Exile
- The conversations
- The renunciation
- Reading with a dictionary
- Gathering words
- The diary
- The story
- The exchange
- The fragile shelter
- Impossibility
- Venice
- The imperfect
- The hairy adolescent
- The second exile
- The wall
- The triangle
- The metamorphosis
- Plumbing the depths
- The scaffolding
- Half-light
- Afterword.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781101875551
- 1101875550
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