If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents

If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents

A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005.

Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio CortÃ¡zar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez was known to say that the English translation of One Hundred Years was better than the Spanish original.) In If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, Rabassa offers a cool-headed and humorous defense of translation, laying out his views on the translator's art. Anecdotal and always illuminating, Rabassa traces his career from a boyhood on a New Hampshire farm, his school days "collecting" languages, the two and a half years he spent overseas during WWII, and his South American travels, until one day "I signed a contract to do my first translation of a long work [CortÃ¡zar's Hopscotch] for a commercial publisher." Additionally, Rabassa offers us his "rap sheet," a consideration of the various authors and the over 40 works he has translated. This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber YES2018867
ReleaseDate 2006-09-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811216654

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	YES2018867
ReleaseDate	2006-09-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811216654

If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents

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