Mad in Translation

Mad in Translation
Author: Robin D. Gill
Publisher: Paraverse Press
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2009
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0974261874

Even readers with no particular interest in Japan - if such odd souls exist - may expect unexpected pleasure from this book if English metaphysical poetry, grooks, hyperlogical nonsense verse, outrageous epigrams, the (im)possibilities and process of translation between exotic tongues, the reason of puns and rhyme, outlandish metaphor, extreme hyperbole and whatnot tickle their fancy. Read together with The Woman Without a Hole, also by Robin D. Gill, the hitherto overlooked ulterior side of art poetry in Japan may now be thoroughly explored by monolinguals, though bilinguals and students of Japanese will be happy to know all the original Japanese is included.--amazon.com.

That Mad Ache: A Novel/Translator, Trader: An Essay

That Mad Ache: A Novel/Translator, Trader: An Essay
Author: Franoise Sagan
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0465010989

Set in Paris in the mid-1960s, Lucile, a young, rootless woman, finds herself torn between a fifty-year-old businessman and a thirty-year-old hot-blooded, impulsive editor; and, in a companion to the novel, the translator describes the process of rewritin

Mad Hazard

Mad Hazard
Author: Stephen Turner
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 180382669X

Revealing an academic career not dependent on prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy and academic politics, Mad Hazard is appealing for readers interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the present university.

The Mad and the Bad

The Mad and the Bad
Author: Jean-Patrick Manchette
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590177207

An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew—a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. The craziness is just getting started. Like Jean-Patrick Manchette’s celebrated Fatale, The Mad and the Bad is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction.

The Southern Dictionary

The Southern Dictionary
Author: Chelsea Falin
Publisher: Chelsea Falin
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2012-05-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1477494790

An easy enough guide to "southern speak" for the every day person!