Overview
Beyond Words offers the eclectic musings of a group of translators from eight countries working in seven languages specializing in a variety of genres, translating both contemporary authors and the modern world's great classics. Their ruminations on the world that lies ""beyond words"" make for fascinating reading for lovers of literature near and far.
Full Product Details
Author: Susan Ouriou ,
Susan Ouriou
Publisher: Banff Centre Press
Imprint: Banff Centre Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.277kg
ISBN: 9781894773386
ISBN 10: 1894773381
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 23 June 2010
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Writers, translators, and readers of more than one language will consider this book both a treat and a tool, which, for this reviewer's part, hopefully translates to a must read. Peter Worden Alberta Views It is stimulating to confront in a short space how twenty-one translators with different approaches and attitudes face twenty-one different problems of translation in as many different ways. How does translating make us think about language? What can translators do, caught in the gaps between two languages? ...How can poetry be translated? Is translation political? Should it be subjective? Is the translator translating him- or herself? ...That all these questions are raised cogently and in brief form in this book reveals to the reader the multilayered complexity that every translation involves. --Burton Pike, World Literature Review
Writers, translators, and readers of more than one language will consider this book both a treat and a tool, which, for this reviewer's part, hopefully translates to a must read. Peter Worden Alberta Views a€œIt is stimulating to confront in a short space how twenty-one translators with different approaches and attitudes face twenty-one different problems of translation in as many different ways. How does translating make us think about language? What can translators do, caught in the gaps between two languages? a€]How can poetry be translated? Is translation political? Should it be subjective? Is the translator translating him- or herself? a€]That all these questions are raised cogently and in brief form in this book reveals to the reader the multilayered complexity that every translation involves.a€ a€ Burton Pike, World Literature Review
Author Information
Susan Ouriou is an award-winning translator whose latest award was the 2009 Governor General's Award for Literary Translation. She has translated novels by Quebecois, Spanish and Mexican authors, has taught translation at the University of Calgary, helped to create and edit a bi-annual national translation anthology, TransLit, and is the editor of the 2010 anthology of BILTC translators writing on translation, Beyond Words: Translating the World. She is also an award-winning fiction writer and has written a novel, Damselfish, and numerous short stories. She is a former director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and she currently lives in Calgary.
