That Mad Ache , set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960's,
recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a
sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between
her carefree, tranquil love for 50-year-old Charles, a gentle,
reflective, and well-off businessman, and her sudden wild passion
for 30-year-old Antoine, a hot-blooded, impulsive, and struggling
editor. As Lucile explores these two versions of love, she
vacillates in confusion, but in the end she must choose, and her
heart's instinct is surprising and poignant. Originally published
under the title La Chamade , this new translation by Douglas
Hofstadter returns a forgotten classic to English. In Translator,
Trader , Douglas Hofstadter reflects on his personal act of
devotion in rewriting Françoise Sagan's novel La Chamade
in English, and on the paradoxes that constantly plague any
literary translator on all scales, ranging from the humblest of
commas to entire chapters. Flatly rejecting the common wisdom that
translators are inevitably traitors, Hofstadter proposes instead
that translators are traders, and that translation, like musical
performance, deserves high respect as a creative act. In his view,
literary translation is the art of making subtle trades in which
one sometimes loses and sometimes gains, often both losing and
gaining at the same time. This view implies that there is no reason
a translation cannot be as good as the original work, and that the
result inevitably bears the stamp of the translator, much as a
musical performance inevitably bears the stamp of its artists. Both
a companion to the beloved Sagan novel and a singular meditation on
translation, Translator, Trader is a witty and intimate exploration
of words, ideas, communication, creation, and faithfulness.
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