The Translator's Dialogue
Giovanni Pontiero
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 1997
XIV, 252 pages
978-90-272-8353-5 (ISBN)
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The Translator's Dialogue: Giovanni Pontiero is a tribute to an outstanding translator of literary works from Portuguese, Luso-Brasilian, Italian and Spanish into English. The translator introduced authors such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, Clarice Lispector and José Saramago to the English reading world.
Pontiero's essays shed light on the process of literary translation and its impact on cultural perception. This process is exemplified by Pontiero the translator and analyst, some of the authors he collaborated with, publishers' editors and literary critics and, finally, by an unpublished translation of a short story by José Saramago, Coisas.
Pontiero's essays shed light on the process of literary translation and its impact on cultural perception. This process is exemplified by Pontiero the translator and analyst, some of the authors he collaborated with, publishers' editors and literary critics and, finally, by an unpublished translation of a short story by José Saramago, Coisas.
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- THE TRANSLATOR'S DIALOGUE GIOVANNI PONTIERO
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Essays by Giovanni Pontiero
- Manuel Bandeira and the Browning Sonnets
- ManuelBandeiraand Shakespeare's Macbeth
- The risks and rewards of literary translation
- Luso-Brazilian voices. Anyone care to listen?
- The task of the literary translator
- Critical perceptions of Saramago's fiction in the English-speakingworld.
- Chapter Two. Authors' comments on the translator's work
- To write is to translate
- Giovanni Pontiero's translation of Boca do Inferno
- Chapter Three. Editors' comments on collaboration withthe translator
- My experience of editing Giovanni Pontiero's translations
- Discovering the Word
- The Neutralisation of Culture-Specific Concepts in Translation
- Chapter Four. Literary critics' and translators' commentson the translations
- The translator as arbiter
- José Saramago and Giovanni Pontiero
- Giovanni Pondero's Translation of Clarice Lispector's Discoveringthe World
- Giovanni Pondero's Translation of Clarice Lispector's Lagos deFamilia
- Short fiction and the long future life of Giovanni Pontiero
- Chapter Five. Giovanni Pontiero 1932-1996
- A biographical note
- Patricia Bins talks to Giovanni Pontiero
- Giovanni Pontiero
- Translations by Giovanni Pontiero 1966 - 1996
- Coisas -- Things. a short story by José Saramago
- List of Contributors
- References
- INDEX
