Why X Matters Series: Why Translation Matters (Paperback)

from AnnieMod

When one of the best translators working today write a book about translation and its meaning, the book cannot be bad. Or so I thought. "Why Translation Matter" is a short and easily readable book. But this is where the good parts end. Grossman spends a lot of those pages wondering why UK and US ...

from jburlinson

An eminently sensible, well-written book that probably won't bestow upon you a single new idea. Of the three words of the title, the second two receive the most attention. The "why" seems to be taken for granted, other than the hardly world-shaking insight that without a translation, you wouldn't...

from StoutHearted

Edith Grossman, translator of notables such as Cervantes and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, explains in short essay form the perspective of those who transform literature from one language into another. She brings up the woeful plight of the translator, underpaid and unappreciated, and stresses how many...

from genolgra

Fascinating look at the world of literary translation.

from kidzdoc

Edith Grossman is an award winning translator of Spanish language novelists and poets such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Jaime Manrique and Nicanor Parra, who is best known and respected for her recent translation of "Don Quixote" (which I read several years ago a...