An Open Letter on Translating

An Open Letter on Translating
Author: Martin Luther
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2022-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

'An Open Letter on Translating' is a work written by Martin Luther, best known among Christians as the seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation and as the namesake of Lutheranism. Here he discusses several of the word choices he made and the reasoning behind them when translating the Bible into German.

The Little Golden Calf

The Little Golden Calf
Author: Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf
Publisher: Frederick Ungar
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1961
Genre: Russian fiction
ISBN:

The satirical novel's main character, Ostap Bender, also appeared in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. The title alludes to the "golden calf" of the Bible; another possible rendering of it in English, less literal but better tuned to the air of the novel, would be "The Gilded Calf". It continues the theme of the denunciation of money-grubbing, philistine stupidity, and bureaucracy, which began in “The Twelve Chairs”.

A New Gospel for Women

A New Gospel for Women
Author: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190205644

A work of history, biography, and historical theology, A New Gospel for Women tells the remarkable story of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), an internationally-known social reformer and author of God's Word to Women, a startling reinterpretation of the Christian Scriptures that even today stands as one of the most innovative and comprehensive feminist theologies ever written.

The Invented Part

The Invented Part
Author: Rodrigo Fresan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: FICTION
ISBN: 9781940953564

A sprawling epic about imagination, creation, and reality in the vein of Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow.

Maidenhair

Maidenhair
Author: Mikhail Shishkin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781934824368

Day after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter - the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise - and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else. These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter's own reading: a history of an ancient Persian war; letters sent to his son Nebuchadnezzasaurus,' ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire; and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia's wars and revolutions.'

The Engagement

The Engagement
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781590172285

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Translation as Stylistic Evolution

Translation as Stylistic Evolution
Author: Federico M. Federici
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9042025697

Why did Italo Calvino decide to translate Les Fleurs bleues by Raymond Queneau? Was his translation just a way to pay a tribute to one of his models? This study looks at Calvino's translation from a literary and linguistic perspective: Calvino's I fiori blu is more than a rewriting and a creative translation, as it contributed to a revolution in his own literary language and style. Translating Queneau, Calvino discovered a new fictional voice and explored the potentialities of his native tongue, Italian. In fact Calvino's writings show a visible evolution of poetics and style that occurred rather abruptly in the mid 1960s; this sudden change has long been debated. The radical transformation of his style was affected by several factors: Calvino's new interests in linguistics, in translation theory, and in the act of translation. Translation as Stylistic Evolution analyses several passages in detail and scrutinizes quantitative data obtained by comparing digital versions of the original and Calvino's translation. The results of such assessment of Calvino's text-consistency suggest clear interpretations of the motives behind Calvino's radical and remarkable change of style that are tied to his notion of creative translation.

Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0834843676

A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875–1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke’s personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living urge an aspiring poet to look inward, while also offering sage wisdom on further issues including gender, solitude, and romantic love. Barrows and Macy’s translation extends this compilation of timeless advice and wisdom to a fresh generation of readers. With a new introduction and commentary, this edition places the letters in the context of today’s world and the unique challenges we face when seeking authenticity.

This Little Art

This Little Art
Author: Kate Briggs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2017
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN: 9781910695456

Part-essay and part-memoir, 'This Little Art' is a manifesto for the practice of literary translation.

Translating Myself and Others

Translating Myself and Others
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691238618

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 Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino’s popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question “Why Italian?,” and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers. Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri’s most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator’s art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.