Translation

All'ombra dell'altra lingua. Per una poetica della traduzione book cover

All'ombra dell'altra lingua: Per una poetica della traduzione

May 6, 2012

by Antonio Prete
Bollati Boringhieri, 131 pp., € 16.00

JULIANNE VAN WAGENEN

Antonio Prete, professor of comparative literature at the University of Siena, begins his book: “To translate is to transmute one language into another language. One text into another text. One voice into another voice.”There is, in this alchemy, something that resembles the experience of love, or at least that same tension.” This motif of tension and love continues throughout the book. A great translation has to exist in the space between the language of origin and the ‘guest’ language...

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