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Crossing Borders

Stories and Essays About Translation


  • Random House US
  • by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
In Joyce Carol Oates's story "The Translation," a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis's "French Lesson I: Le Meurtre," what begins as a lesson in beginner's French takes a sinister turn. In the essay "On Translating and Being Translated," Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator.

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Publisher Random House US
ISBN 9781609809744
Author(s) Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Publication date December 2019
Edition Trade Pb
Dimensions 210 x 140 mm
Pages 320
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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In Joyce Carol Oates's story "The Translation," a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis's "French Lesson I: Le Meurtre," what begins as a lesson in beginner's French takes a sinister turn. In the essay "On Translating and Being Translated," Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator. Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays About Translation gathers together thirteen stories and five essays that explore the compromises, misunderstandings, traumas, and reconciliations we act out and embody through the art of translation.

Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders

€18.95