{"product_id":"this-little-art-paperback","title":"This Little Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate Briggs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's \u003cem\u003eThis Little Art\u003c\/em\u003e 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 Andr  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 \u003cem\u003eThis Little Art\u003c\/em\u003e, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Briggs is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes's lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: \u003cem\u003eThe Preparation of the Novel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHow to Live Together\u003c\/em\u003e, both published by Columbia University Press. She teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770013974816,"sku":"9781910695456","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0abdaffd9e6a3fc345ad5b5dc879c13d.webp?v=1780362484","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/this-little-art-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}