If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents: A Memoir
If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents: A Memoir
Rabassa, Gregory
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9780811216654, Publication Date: Fri, September 1, 2006, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
9A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005.

Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez 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 [Cortazar'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.
reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

The Scar

by Ferraris, Andrea

Paperback /Paperback

$6.80

My Brilliant Life

by Kim, Ae-Ran

Hardcover /Hardcover

$18.74

Crossing the Sierra de Gredos

by Handke, Peter

Paperback /Paperback

$14.25

listens & views

RARE UNISSUED OR JUST PLAIN ...

by HAWKINS,JAY

VINYL LP

out of stock

$19.99

WHAT JESUS MEANS TO ME

by SAWYER,QUINTIN

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$17.49

SEVEN

by HILL,THORN

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$15.75

ON THE WINGS OF THE ...

by GALLION,TERESA E.

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$12.25

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.
promoting relevance through notable postings ]
share it, buy it, sell it ]

A notem is a post that highlights an experience, idea, topic of interest, an event ... whatever a member believes worthy of discussion. Each notem becomes a pathway by which to make meaningful connections.

notems is a free, global social network that rewards members by the number and quality of notems they post.

notemote® © . Privacy Policy. Developed by Hartmann Software Group