If This Be Treason – Translation and its Dyscontents - Softcover

Rabassa, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811216659 ISBN 13: 9780811216654

Publisher: New Directions, 2006

Synopsis

If This be Treason A "Los Angeles Times" Favorite Book of the Year for 2005. Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and Julio Cortazar's "Hopscotch" have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that the English translation of "One Hundre... Full description

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Review:

If translators are the anonymous heroes of contemporary literature, its anonymous superhero is Gregory Rabassa.

Widely considered one of the greatest practitioners of his craft.

In this supple narrative, packed with erudition and yet leavened by Rabassa's mordant, often self-effacing wit, less becomes more.

An insider's view that is available nowhere else, and everyone, neophytes as well as past or present Spanish majors, can profit from it.

The best Latin American writer in the English language.--Gabriel García Márquez

About the Author:

Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was the recipient of multiple prizes including a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center for contributions to Hispanic literature and a National Medal of Arts. He was the translator of One Hundred Years of Solitude, among other classic works.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0811216659
• ISBN 13: 9780811216654
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208