
Barbara Wright
Translation as Art
Dalkey Archive Press
Published on 12. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-1-56478-886-3 (ISBN)
Description
Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an English-speaking readership and audience some of the most innovative French literature of the last hundred years: a world without Alfred Jarry's "Ubu," Raymond Queneau's "Zazie," and Robert Pinget's "Monsieur Songe" scarcely bears thinking about. This wonderful collection of texts about and by Barbara Wright--including work by David Bellos, Breon Mitchell, and Nick Wadley, as well as a previously unpublished screenplay written and translated by Wright in collaboration with Robert Pinget--begins the work of properly commemorating a figure toward whom all of English letters owes an unpayable debt.
Reviews / Votes
Both a useful resource and a fitting memorial to one of translation's modern virtuosos. Times Literary SupplementMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-886-3 (9781564788863)
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E-Book
08/2013
1st Edition
Columbia University Press
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Persons
Debra Kelly is Professor of French and Francophone Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, Director of the Group for War and Culture Studies, and Editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. She has published widely in textual and visual studies and cultural memory, and on several of the authors translated by Barbara Wright. Debra Kelly is Professor of French and Francophone Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, Director of the Group for War and Culture Studies, and Editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. She has published widely in textual and visual studies and cultural memory, and on several of the authors translated by Barbara Wright.