Translating myself and others / Jhumpa Lahiri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lahiri, Jhumpa, author.

Starnone, Domenico, 1943- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lahiri, Jhumpa.

Translating and interpreting.

Self-translation.

Translators--United States--21st century--Biography.

Translators.

Women translators--United States--21st century--Biography.

Women translators.

United States.

Genre:

Essays.

essays.

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her family to Italy to immerse herself fully in her adopted language. The book builds on that account through eight essays that reflect her early career as a translator. One essay uses her teaching of the Echo and Narcissus myth to reflect on the meaning of translation; another describes her decision to translate her own recent novel from Italian, the language in which she composed and first published it, into English; another addresses the question "Why Italian?," in which she reflects on what attracts her to the language and the reactions she has received from native speakers. Three of the pieces are introductions to novels by Domenico Starnone that she has translated from Italian into English for Europa Editions: in each, she describes the particular challenges and pleasures of translation from different angles. The book will also include a brief preface to frame the book, and an epilogue on what she sees as the next chapter in her life as a translator, a long-term project to translate Ovid's Metamorphoses"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Why Italian?

2. Containers

Introduction to Ties / Domenico Starnone

3. Juxtaposition

Introduction to Trick / Domenico Starnone

4. In Praise of Echo

Reflections on the Meaning of Translation

5. An Ode to the Mighty Optative

Notes of a Would-be Translator

6. Where I Find Myself

On Self Translation

7. Substitution

Afterword to Trust / Domenico Starnone

8. Traduzione (stra)ordinaria / (Extra)ordinary Translation

On Gramsci

9. Lingua/Language

10. Calvino Abroad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lahiri, Jhumpa. Translating myself and others

ISBN:

9780691231167

0691231168

OCLC:

1269616929