{"product_id":"translating-myself-and-others-paperback","title":"Translating Myself and Others - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslating Myself and Others\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle's \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci's \u003ci\u003ePrison Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e and takes up the question of Italo Calvino's popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question \"Why Italian?,\" and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, \u003ci\u003eTranslating Myself and Others\u003c\/i\u003e brings together Lahiri's most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator's art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eInterpreter of Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. She has translated three novels by Domenico Starnone into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764548174112,"sku":"9780691238616","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/15ccb898b179afca65564a322a59535b.webp?v=1780251764","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/translating-myself-and-others-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}