SYMPATHY FOR THE TRAITOR

An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of lit erature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty?summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and pr ovocative study, Mark Polizzotti attempts to reframe the debate along more fruitful lines. Eschewing both these easy polarities and the incre...[Llegir més]