This Little Art (eBook)

Kate Briggs (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
400 Seiten
Fitzcarraldo Editions (Verlag)
9781910695463 (ISBN)

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An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification. She writes about the loving relationship between André Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for him for the first time, on an undeserted island. With This Little Art, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original.

Kate Briggs is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes's lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together, both published by Columbia University Press. She teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.

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An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification. She writes about the loving relationship between Andre Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for him for the first time, on an undeserted island. With This Little Art, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Andre Gide • Anita Raja • Anne Carson • Ann Goldstein • Can’t and Won’t • Charlotte Mandell • Daniel Hahn • death of the author • Deborah Smith • Deconstruction • Derrida • Domestic labour • Dorothy Bussy • Elena Ferrante • Essay • Essays • Feminism • Fitzcarraldo • Fitzcarraldo Editions • French Theory • Gilles Deleuze • Helen Lowe-Porter • How to Live Together • Idra Novey • In Search of Lost Time • Kakfa • Kate Briggs • language • Lectures College de France • Linguistics • Literary Theory • Literary translation • Little Art • Lydia Davis • Marcel Proust • Memoir • Non-fiction • Richard Howard • Robinson Crusoe • Roland Barthes • Ros Schwartz • Sara Ahmed • Susan Sontag • The Magic Mountain • The Preparation of the Novel • This Little Art • Thomas Mann • To the lighthouse • Translation • Virginia Woolf
• ISBN-13: 9781910695463 / 9781910695463