This Little Art (Paperback)

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification. She writes about the loving relationship between Andre Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for him for the first time, on an undeserted island. With This Little Art, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original.

General

Imprint:	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Kate Briggs
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-910695-45-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Translation & interpretation > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-910695-45-9
Barcode:	9781910695456

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