THIS LITTLE ART

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own expe rience of translating Roland Barthes s lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us thi s portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter s translatio...[Read more]