Why Translation Matters by Grossman, Edith
Why Translation Matters by Grossman, Edith

Why Translation Matters

From the celebrated translator of Cervantes and Garci M rquez, a testament to the power of the...
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Author: Edith Grossman
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Why Translation Matters by Grossman, Edith

Why Translation Matters

$57.75
Why Translation Matters by Grossman, Edith

Why Translation Matters

$57.75
Author: Edith Grossman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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From the celebrated translator of Cervantes and Garci M rquez, a testament to the power of the translator's art

Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented."

For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: "Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable."

Throughout the four chapters of this bracing volume, Grossman's belief in the crucial significance of the translator's work, as well as her rare ability to explain the intellectual sphere that she inhabits as interpreter of the original text, inspires and provokes the reader to engage with translation in an entirely new way.



Author: Edith Grossman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/08/2011
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.24w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780300171303


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/27/2011 pg. 28

About the Author
Edith Grossman is the acclaimed translator of Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Mayra Montero, and many other distinguished Spanish-language writers. Her translation of Don Quixote is widely considered a masterpiece. The recipient of numerous prizes for her work, she was awarded the Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation by PEN in 2006, an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, and the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize in 2010. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in New York.
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