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Author: M. A. Orthofer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.638kg
ISBN: 9780231146753
ISBN 10: 0231146752
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 19 April 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
M.A. Orthofer's The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction, brilliantly researched and compiled, puts its finger on what is happening in international fiction country by country. I recommend this book as an authoritative guide that I will keep on my own desk. -- Robert Con Davis-Udiano, Executive Director, World Literature Today, Presidential Professor, The University of Oklahoma M.A. Orthofer has done more to bring literature in translation to America than perhaps any other individual. The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction will introduce more new worlds to you than any other book on the market. -- Tyler Cowen, George Mason University
M.A. Orthofer's The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction, brilliantly researched and compiled, puts its finger on what is happening in international fiction country by country. I recommend this book as an authoritative guide that I will keep on my own desk. -- Robert Con Davis-Udiano, Executive Director, World Literature Today, Presidential Professor, The University of Oklahoma M.A. Orthofer has done more to bring literature in translation to America than perhaps any other individual. The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction will introduce more new worlds to you than any other book on the market. -- Tyler Cowen, George Mason University We live in an age of paradoxes: The global internet allows us to communicate with each other on a level unknown to mankind a few decades before. On the other hand there are more than 6000 different languages on this planet - 6000 barriers to mutual understanding. Although English has become the lingua franca in science, we know very little about the cultural self-interpretation of these numerous language-groups. One of the traditional and proven vessels of cultural self-identification is fictional literature. M.A. Orthofer's Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction opens a welcome window to the wide literary world for all readers of English, who depend on the efforts of translators. His guide will encourage its readers to venture abroad while reading - staying at home or in a library. -- Michael Naumann, Director of the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin, former comissioner of culture of Germany, and founder of Metropolitan Books in New York.
Author Information
M. A. Orthofer is the founder, managing editor, and lead contributor to the Complete Review and its blog The Literary Saloon. Launched in 1999, the Complete Review has been praised by the Times Literary Supplement, Wired, and the New York Times Book Review, which called the site ""one of the best literary destinations on the Web."" Orthofer has also served as judge for the Best Translated Book Award and the Austrian Cultural Forum's ACF Translation Prize, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.
