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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 André 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.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    Part-essay and part-memoir, THIS LITTLE ART is a manifesto for the practice of literary translation. Taking her experience translating Roland Barthes' lectures at the College de France as her starting point, Kate Briggs offers a portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and formative activity. Building on Barthes' late work, Briggs explores the philosophical and aesthetic facets of translation alongside its practical implications. Dealing in turn with the controversial translations of Thomas Mann by Helen Lowe-Porter and Dorothy Bussy's translations of Andre Gide, Briggs argues for an understanding of the history of translation as a form of domestic, feminised labour. In what ways do notions of care and literary service imbue our understanding of translation? Both an ode to Barthes and to translation, THIS LITTLE ART offers a unique insight into the 'the lived-out, unabstracted practice' of translation.

  • BookDepository

    This Little Art : Paperback : Fitzcarraldo Editions : 9781910695456 : 1910695459 : 17 Apr 2018 : 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.

  • 1910695459
  • 9781910695456
  • Kate Briggs
  • 20 September 2017
  • Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 400
  • Book
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