Translating Style: A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature

ISBN-13: 9781905763047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 268 str.

Parks, Tim

Opis

Parks sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. He also tries to savour, if not quite pin down, the extent to which any text is driven by the language in which it is written.

O autorze

Tim Parks was born in Manchester and studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. He presently runs a post-graduate course in translation at IULM university, Milan. He has written thirteen novels, the most recent being Cleaver, and three best selling accounts of life in provincial Italy as well as two collections of literary essays, Hell and Back and The Fighter. He is also the translator of Antonio Tabucchi, Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia and Roberto Calasso and has twice won the prestigious John Florio prize and the Italo Calvino award for literary translation from Italian.