Translating Myself and Others
Jhumpa Lahiri, "Translating Myself and Others"
English | ISBN: 0691231168 | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0691231168 | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator
Translating Myself and Others 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.
With 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
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