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Crossing Borders Essays on Translation Hardcover Edition

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Type: book Item Weight: 16.6 Oz Book Title: Crossing Borders : Stories and Essays about Translation ISBN: 9781609807917 Topic: Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General, Translating & Interpreting, Essays Intended Audience: General/trade Publisher: Seven Stories Press Format: Hardcover Item Width: 5.9 in Item Length: 8.5 in Language: English Item Height: 1.2 in Number of Pages: 320 Pages Publication Year: 2018 Author: Lynne Sharon Schwartz gtin13: 9781609807917 Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines, Fiction, Literary Collections Narrative Type: book

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In Joyce Carol Oates’s story “The Translation,” a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis’s “French Lesson I: Le Meurtre,” what begins as a lesson in beginner’s French takes a sinister turn. In the essay “On Translating and Being Translated,” Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator. Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays About Translation gathers together thirteen stories and five essays that explore the compromises, misunderstandings, traumas, and reconciliations we act out and embody through the art of translation. Guiding her selection is Schwartz’s marvelous eye for finding hidden gems, bringing together Levi, Davis, and Oates with the likes of Michael Scammell, Harry Mathews, Chana Bloch, and so many other fine and intriguing voices.

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