Translating Myself and Others
1st Edition
Published on 23. May 2022
208 pages
978-0-691-23860-9 (ISBN)
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Jhumpa Lahiri is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Barnard College. A writer in both English and Italian, she is the author of Interpreter of Maladies, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and the editor of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories. She has translated three novels by Domenico Starnone into English.
Content
- Intro
- 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
