Translating myself and others / Jhumpa Lahiri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lahiri, Jhumpa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lahiri, Jhumpa.

Translating and interpreting.

Self-translation.

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

Translators.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle’s Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino’s popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question “Why Italian?,” and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri’s most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator’s art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1 Why Italian?

2 Containers: Introduction to Ties by Domenico Starnone

3 Juxtaposition: Introduction to Trick by 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 by Domenico Starnone

8 Traduzione (stra)ordinaria/ (Extra)ordinary translation: On Gramsci

9 Lingua / Language

10 Calvino Abroad

(Afterword) Translating Transformation

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Essays

Appendix: Two Essays in Italian

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691238609

069123860X

OCLC:

1288423254